Paradigma Software Releases Valentina 2.4 for Adobe Director
Paradigma Software Releases Valentina 2.4 for Adobe Director
NEW COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL, UNIVERAL BINARY SERVER
Beaverton, Oregon-based Paradigma Software, Inc announces the immediate availability of Valentina 2.4, including Valentina Office Server for MacOS X Universal Binary edition and all developer tools for MacOS X and Windows, including Valentina for Adobe Director. The release allows Adobe Director developers to take some advantage of native universal binary versions of the Valentina database kernel.
Valentina 2’s next generation, object-relational database model builds on the traditional relational database model much like C++ builds on top of the C language. All that you know from working with traditional database systems from IBM, Oracle and Microsoft also apply to Valentina-based development. This robust technology excels at ultra fast management of millions of records.
Valentina 2 Application Developer Kits provide software developers with the incredibly fast and robust Valentina 2 database engine for royalty free incorporation into their desktop applications. Valentina technology includes support for Valentina XML import/export, Valentina SQL (SQL 92 + extensions), native Unicode UTF-16 support, simultaneous data exchange, transparent file formats, and more. ADK Pro versions include both Mac OS X and Windows runtimes as well as a copy of the database setup, browser and server administration tool, Valentina Studio. Valentina Studio is available on Windows and MacOS X (including a universal binary version).
Valentina release 2.4 has undergone extensive internal and community testing in order to provide developers and business with a highly secure and stable database platform. Two Valentina-based products have received dramatic improvements:
Valentina 2.4 Office Server Universal Binary Edition. The universal binary edition of the server has been available for developer deployment since May, 2006. Valentina Office Server is the fastest database server on the Mac-on-Intel platform for reliably and efficiently handling millions of database records.
Valentina 2.4 for Director. Valentina 2.4 for Director includes five new example projects that demonstrate several tasks plus several performance improvements:
- Specific/Field_Media. Demonstrates how to work with BLOB fields to store media data.
- Common/DateTime_Format. Demonstrates how settings of DateTime format affect date/time values.
- Common/Error_Handling. Demonstrates how to check errors produced by Valentina database.
- Common/VServer_RegisterDb. Demonstrates how to register a new database with Valentina Embedded Server or Valentina Office Server.
- SQL/Autoincrement. Demonstrates how to use SQL to create an auto-increment field.
Even though Director cannot compile universal binary applications, the Valentina portion of a solution can utilize the universal binary component and can interact with Valentina Office Server. All Valentina 2.4 products also gained the following benefits and improvements:
- Packet Based Communication Protocol. Valentina 2.4 introduces a new packet based protocol that allows better separation of commands, data-compression and more.
- Breakthrough Speed Advancement in Re-indexing Algorithms. New methods allow re-indexing of numeric fields at much greater speeds for fields equal or smaller than 4 bytes: Byte, Short, Ushort, Medium, Medium, Long, ULong, Float, Date, Time. The disk space for these indexes has been cut in half.
- VLink2.LinkRecords Call. Allows connecting fields in two different tables with a single command.
- VConnection Class. All Valentina 2.4 ADKs support this unified, simpler method for establishing connections to Valentina databases. This improves over the previous constructor method.
- Table Properties: VTable.IndexChanges as Integer” property in all Valentina 2.4 ADKs.
- Table Properties: VTable.MaxRecordCount as Integer” property in all Valentina 2.4 ADKs.
About Paradigma Software, Inc
Founded in 1998, Beaverton, Oregon-based Paradigma Software, Inc is the leading provider of incredibly fast and robust database solutions for business and development. Valentina 2 technology powers solutions as diverse as graphics applications from major Japanese electronics companies to solutions supporting US public schools. Paradigma Software solutions are available for every major development environment on the Windows and Macintosh platforms.
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