• RTMP integration - provides support for remoting invocations via dedicated connections, data push for the producer/consumer messaging.
• Data Management (WDMF) improvements. Added support for Oracle, bug fixes for MySQL and SQL Server integration

• WebORB Messaging documentation. The documentation covers publish/subscribe messaging and JMS integration
• Two new messaging examples. Both examples are chat implementations. One uses internal WebORB message routing and the other is based on JMS. The example also includes a native Java client communicating with the Flex client via a JMS topic. The examples are available via WebORB Management Console, Examples tab.
• Built-in ActiveMQ broker initializer
• Code generator for PureMVC
• Fixed problems reported for WDMF
• Configuration panel in the console for managing remoting destinations
• Spring-based product configuration. This allows all pluggable points of extensibility (security handlers, custom serializers, etc) to be configured via the Spring framework.
• Support for collections serialization as ArrayCollection

WebORB 3.0 for Java introduces support for Flex clients and a number of important improvements:

• AMF3 implementation (Flex Remoting support)
• Spring Framework integration
• Management Console
• Service browser
• Invocation test drive (available via service browser)
• New examples

WebORB 2.0 is a major production release.  It includes all the features and bug fixes and introduced during the Beta cycle (see the notes for the beta releases)
 

WebORB 2.0 Beta 2 - 08.25.05

The Beta 2 release delivers additional stability to the 2.0 version of the product. The release contains the following fixes and modifications:

• 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
• Serialization of circular object references in returned complex types has been fixed.
• Serialization of returned singleton objects has been fixed.
• 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.

WebORB 2.0 Beta 1 - 08.01.05

We extended the scope of supported rich client environments from Flash to JavaScript/AJAX. To reflect the addition of new type of clients the product's new name is WebORB. Support for Flash Remoting remains the same. All the existing and new features equally apply to both types of clients (AJAX and Flash Remoting). The Beta1 release delivers the following new features and bug fixes:

• Multi-protocol support. WebORB architecture allows pluggable protocol handlers. There are 2 built-in implementations: WOLF (Web Object Literal Format) - an XML-based protocol for handling AJAX requests and AMF (Action Message Format) - binary protocol developed by Macromedia for Flash-based clients.
• Rich Client System. WebORB includes a set of APIs to simplify object binding and invocation process. Future releases will provide dynamic user interface widgets, event framework, support for drag-and-drop, messaging client for peer-to-peer and broadcast message delivery.
• ColdFusion Components (CFC) support. WebORB 2.0 introduces integration with the BlueDragon CFML engine from New Atlanta Communications. AJAX and Flash Remoting clients can easily bind and message any CFC component via WebORB and BlueDragon  (on either the J2EE or .NET editions of BlueDragon)
• Ability to map client classes to the server ones and vice versa.
• Type adaptation improvements. Added support for conversion of string-based arguments to the numeric types 
• JDBC Integration improvements. Change to use column labels instead of column names.
• WebORB for Java introduces Development Mode. Without a license key, WebORB for Java will respond to the requests only from 1 IP address and will shutdown after 3 hours of operation. Process restart will reset the IP address and the 3 hour timeout.

FlashORB 1.5 - 03.01.05

Midnight Coders has concluded the Beta program for FlashORB 1.5 and releases the version into production. See the Beta releases history for the details on version 1.5

FlashORB 1.5 Beta 2 - 01.09.05

Beta 2 is a step forward toward the production release of FlashORB 1.5. This release provides bug fixes for the issues reported against Beta1:

• Management console is fixed
• Zero-length JDBC ResultSet serialization is fixed
• License validation on UNIX-based systems is fixed.
• Added server life-cycle methods (start, shutdown, shutdownAll)

FlashORB 1.5 Beta 1 - 11.12.04

Version 1.5 introduces improved approach to the application security. It also includes improvements with session activation management and exception propagation.  Summary of changes/fixes:

• Support for 'open system' and 'closed system' modes.
• Support for system level authentication and authorization handlers.
• Support for service level authorization handlers
• Support for session expiration handling for the session activation
• Custom exception propagation is fixed

FlashORB 1.0.1 - 03.25.04

1.0.1 is a patch release. It delivers several important bug fixes in the web service invocation subsystem. Summary of changes/fixes:

• Embedded Ant files were upgraded to version 1.6.1
• Ant script for Axis web service processing was modified to exclude non necessary files during the compilation task
• Fixed bug in the logic locating the right web service proxy stub file
• Introduced a feature to ignore pre-configured classes during response serialization

FlashORB 1.0 - 03.23.04

1.0 is the first production release of the product. It contains fixes for all bugs teported to date as well as the following new features/improvements:

• Administration module for the management console
• Support for logging policies
• Call trace filtering
• Configuration file improvements
  • Named services
  • Custom serializers
  • Abstract type mappings
  • Ordering of invokers and inspectors
• Message server traffic tunneling
• Package level security

FlashORB 1.0 Beta 2 - 11.25.03

Beta 2 is a significant step forward from the previous release. There are several new features as well as a number of bug fixes and improvements. New features include:

• Security
• Management Console
• XML Message Server
• Call monitor
• Support for argument object factories

FlashORB 1.0 Beta 1 - 07.26.03

This is the first beta release of the product. Basic feature set is implemented:

• Inspection and invocation of Java Objects, Java Beans, EJBs, Web Services
• Custom invokers and inspectors
• Extensible dispatcher chain
• Application, session, request and custom activation modes
• Remote references
• Support for AXIS and GLUE web services platforms
• Standalone and hosted execution modes
• Custom serializers
• Object factories