Rich Internet Applications (RIA)

Canoo is pleased to announce that UltraLightClient ‘08 is now available.

Download version ULC ‘08 here

New features in ULC ‘08:

• easy project setup using a wizard for Eclipse
• generates an end-to-end application skeleton from a predefined data structure
• high-level component to simplify the development of forms
• improved data types
• sortable ULC tables by default
• data binding
• easy and central configuration of application parameters and options such as look and feel and deployment
• easy deployment

Canoo has recorded a screencast showing how to develop a sample web application using this new release.

A new developer guide describes how to be productive from day one. The release notes list the changes added to the current product version.

We’re preparing to travel to San Francisco to attend this year’s JavaOne.
At our company booth (at number 429) we will be showing the brand new milestone 2 for the upcoming release of UltraLightClient.

Download and try it out!

Screencast tutorial: “Enterprise Web Applications in 5 Minutes”
Daniel Grob and I recorded a screencast to show what’s new in the upcoming release:
http://www.canoo.com/ulc/external/video.html

The screencast highlights a number of features that Daniel presented and discussed in this blog.

The video is a little over 7 mins but we believe you’ll be able to build a ULC app in 5 mins…

A couple of weeks ago, Marc Guillemot published a blog post comparing Canoo’s WebTest and Selenium.

He has also published links to two WebTest screencasts, which I would like to highlight today.

My first WebTest project

The first screencast shows how to set up a WebTest project:

Data Driven WebTest

The second screencast shows how to setup a data driven WebTest using Google Calculator as an example:

Further links on WebTest:
Website
Installing WebTest

As mentioned in last week’s blog post, UltraLightClient 6.2 offers a new test framework.

We put together a 6:15 minute screencast showing how to create functional tests for ULC using this new framework:

View screencast.

Tests written with the ULC test framework can be executed in development mode, as well as in deployed mode, allowing you to test the application in a “real” situation.

Automated functional testing to be one of the most important building blocks you need to deliver reliable enterprise rich client applications. The ULC test framework is a tool that will allow you to build, accumulate and automatically reproduce and test all relevant interactions between a user and your application.

More infos on UltraLightClient 6.2:

• Recent announcement
• ULC 6.2 release notes
• Interview with Daniel Grob, lead developer

Disclaimer: This is my second go at narrating a screencast

The first screencast can be found here. Hopefully this will help you to learn more about UltraLightClient and get a quick overview.

This screencast will show you how to create an UltraLightClient project for the first time, how to run the application in development mode, how to automatically deploy a Web application (in this case as a Servlet, how to deploy it in a Servlet container and how to run it.

The presentation is about 8 minutes long and is for new UltraLightClient developers, that would like to get a quick overview. It uses the ULC Integration plugin for Eclipse, which is available for free from the ULC code community.

See: Eclipse IDE Integration

A personal note: this is my first go at narrating a screencast