WebORB 2.0 Beta 2 is available

The new beta release addresses the bugs found in Beta1. Thanks to everyone who helped us out with finding the bugs! Below is a summary of all the stuff we fixed and added in Beta2:

• Safari 2.0 support. The Rich Client System has been fixed to work on Safari. All AJAX examples now work on all major browsers.
• Added QuickStart guide for ColdFusion Components (CFCs) to the user guide.
• Date and array serialization for the AJAX clients has been fixed.
• .NET object property serialization. Beta 2 introduces new way of complex type serialization. The product will serialize only public fields and properties. There is a configuration parameter to turn on serialization of private fields.
• Serialization of circular object references in returned complex types has been fixed.
• Serialization of returned singleton objects has been fixed.
• Fixed an internationalization problem manifested with AJAX clients. WebORB for .NET with a non-US locale failed to parse AJAX requests.
• Server-side exceptions can now contain a fault code delivered to Flash Remoting clients. Use Weborb.Exceptions.ServiceException to propagate exception information to the client side.

One thing notably missing from the list above is the documentation for the Message Server. We planned to include it into the Beta2 release, but ran out of time. The theme for Beta3 is 'Interactive messaging for Flash and AJAX clients'. We have some great ideas for that area of the product and you should be pleasantly surprised when it becomes available.