[Laszlo-announce] OpenLaszlo 3.0 is officially released!

[Amy Muntz]

Laszlo Systems, Inc. is pleased to announce the official release of
OpenLaszlo 3.0, an XML-native open-source platform for creating
differentiated, interactive, rich Internet applications. Downloads are
available at http://www.openlaszlo.org/download. Previously called the
Laszlo Presentation Server, or LPS, OpenLaszlo 3.0 brings a host of new
features for building and deploying real-world applications:
 
SOLO (or Standalone Open Laszlo Output) deployment mode that creates a
standalone file that can be used with any web server, including those
that don't allow an installation of a J2EE servlet.
 
J2EE deployment mode that installs the OpenLaszlo Servlet into a J2EE
servlet such as Tomcat, Jetty, or WebSphere. The servlet is a caching
proxying server that provides media transcoding, SOAP, and XML-RPC
support to Laszlo applications.
 
Unicode support for source files and datasets. The framework text
components also support Unicode editing.
 
A drawing API that implements a subset of the WHAT-WG graphics API,
enabling JavaScript code to create graphics on the client, on the fly.
See (http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#graphics).
 
Dynamic libraries that can be used to significantly reduce the initial
download size of an OpenLaszlo application. 
 
Optimizations for Flash Player version 6, with support on over 96% of
consumer browsers, and optimizations and support for the Flash Player
version 7 for even faster performance under managed deployment.
 
Client text optimizations, allowing the use of embedded fonts for total
visual control, or HTML-style client fonts for smaller application size
and faster text editing.
 
Better HTML integration through resizable canvases allowing OpenLaszlo
applications to be sized proportionally to the enclosing HTML page.
 
Better JavaScript integration with functions in OpenLaszlo applications
making calls to JavaScript in the surrounding HTML page.
 
Better navigation capabilities as OpenLaszlo applications can intercept
the browser "back" button and use it to move around among program
states.
 
OpenLaszlo 3.0 also provides a new packaging option, Servlet Only. This
package is the smallest set of files required to deploy an OpenLaszlo
application on any OS running Java and contains only the servlet (10MB).
If you want to deploy OpenLaszlo into an existing Java Application
Server or in your own servlet container, such as IBM WebSphere or JBOSS,
then we suggest downloading the Development Kit for Any OS. 
 
Laszlo Systems is available to help developers who are using OpenLaszlo
via hands-on training courses, technical support, webinars, and
consulting to help developers over the periodic hurdles that come up
when using a new platform. See http://www.laszlosystems.com/services for
more information.
 
And now, a thank you to all of you who have posted on the OpenLaszlo
forums and mailing lists. You are an integral part of the community and
your comments and expertise have really helped shape OpenLaszlo 3.0.
Please consider contributing further to the OpenLaszlo project
(http://www.openlaszlo.org/development/contribute/). 
 
Special thanks and gratitude goes to the contributors
(http://www.openlaszlo.org/development/contributors/) whose work has
been officially included in the OpenLaszlo 3.0 release: Markus Joschko
for his patch to correctly handle javabeans as return objects; Chris
Gallo for helping us port the command-line compiler scripts to Windows;
Geert Bevin and Brendan Fagan for substantial improvements to the
Scrollinputtext class; Krosscore Corporation for their contribution of a
tool tip manager; and Gabriel Harrison for the PDF version of the 2.2
Developers Guide now available on the OpenLaszlo wiki. We are excited
about building the community and if there are things that would make the
contribution process easier, let us know!
 
And now, without further ado - OpenLaszlo 3.0
(http://www.openlaszlo.org/download)
 
 
 
 
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