Most important improvements and technical new features of USoft 10

With the launch of USoft 10 of our low-code platform, we take a further step in the ease of developing business-critical applications. Below the most important improvements and technical new features in a row that we highlighted during our webinar What's new in USoft 10 on May 18th, 2021. 

Continue to make things better

Keep technology up-to-date

• Built with Visual Studio 2019
• From Oracle Java to OpenJDK
• Bootstrap 4 & 5 support
• From JQuery to Vanilla javascript
• IndexedDB
• Oracle 19C & MSSQL 2019 support
• SOAP 1.2 C# client driver
• C++ 17

Improve existing features

• Profiler: Instant commits
  • From cached in memory & committed when ready to instant.
  • Crashes during profiling previously caused no profile. 

• Auto GUID domains

• New Windows Installer
  • More versatile & standards based (MSI)

Enhance expressiveness

Rule syntax & set processor capabilities

• New intersection syntax

  

  • SELECT <selectlist>
    • FROM <table1> t1
    • INNER JOIN <table2> t2 ON
    • t1.column_name = t2.column_name
  • LEFT [outer] JOIN 
  • RIGHT [outer] JOIN
  • No FULL [outer] JOIN: remains existing: UNION
  • No CROSS JOIN: remains existing syntax 
  • No NATURAL JOIN (column type based, not widely supported)

• New CASE syntax
  • New search CASE  syntax:
    • SELECT 
    • CASE WHEN t1.DISCOUNT_ID=1 THEN 'red'
    •     WHEN t1.DISCOUNT_ID=5 THEN 'blue'
    •     ELSE 'yellow'
    • END
    • FROM discount
  • New simple CASE syntax:
    • SELECT 
    • CASE t1.DISCOUNT_ID
    •     WHEN 1 THEN 'red'
    •     WHEN 5 THEN 'blue'
    •     ELSE 'yellow'
    • END

    • FROM discount tl

Web versatility 

• Maturing of SSO/SAML support
• Apex charts control 
• File upload control
• API: Promises syntax support
  • A more comprehensive and safer means of executing asynchronous web code.
• IndexedDB + Crypto
  • Browser storage: performance

Renewed Security & Authorization architecture

More comprehensive roles & rights functionality and improved ease of use 

Design time Roles

• From user groups to roles
• Roles & rights designed in Definer
• Merging of rights
• Constraints can act on specific roles
• Authorizer is easier to use
• Description added

Deployment time Authorization

• Users are assigned to one or more roles
• Default role at login
• Access period has been added
• Automatic upgrade from 9.1 to 10

Remaining additions & enhancements

• Matured delivery & deployment management
• Syslog support 
  • For services & constraints (example component & ServicesDefiner settings)
  • Available for 9.1 and 10
• SCIM support (Identity Management)

.Net driver renewal

• .Net components make USoft’s back-end versatile.
  • 3rd party contributions (nugets) vary in framework dependencies
• App domain isolation
  • Solves framework dependencies, e.g. dotnet core vs e.g. 4.8
• More languages, besides C#
  • JScript, VB, xslt
  • Set oriented deployment script language
• Common nuget support (e.g. newtonsoft json)
• Off-the-shelf components

USmeta extensions

• API intended to provide full flexibility to access & use metadata 
  • For insight & alternative use
  • Run-time available metadata  

Sneak peek: more to be planned in the USoft 10 series

Planning to roll out in Q3/Q4 2021

• Containerization
  • Full Linux container support
  • Container image management embedded in UDeliver

     

• USoft Studio & Platform integration
  • Further, strengthen traceability & maintainability

• Community Edition
  • Free version