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Hi all,

I am looking for sponsors for the BrowserSuite:
I would like to stabilize the last issues on Mac OS X for v1.0, but am facing a problem because Christopher Deckers, the author of the DJNativeSwing library has no Mac to test his library.

Some parts of his lib are really complex (especially the native calls), and he is the only one who can really fix all this. In the past, we spent entire week-ends on skype sessions with trial/errors but he has no visibility for his part, and I'm the one doing all the tweaking and endless tests on Mac, which is not that practical (he lives in France so there is a 6h delay in our communications).

Christopher recently said that if only he had a Mac to test it he would be able to find workarounds for much of the current issues.
Maybe there are people around with a recent Intel Mac sitting in a corner who could make a donation?

Otherwise I would like to open a subscription to sponsor him with a Mac mini.
This little thing cost 800 euros in France, which is roughly US$ 1000, so if I could find 10 people willing to contribute that wouldn't be too much of an investment for all.

Right now 4 people already said they would help with up to $100.

Would you be contributing too? If so please tell me by replying here or by sending an email to admin at servoy-stuff dot net
I will publish the list of the sponsor here and on ServoyForge.

Thanks in advance,
-Patrick

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the new ServoyForge site.

The mission of ServoyForge is to organize Servoy Open Source projects into a centralized community-owned platform.
It will enable talented Servoy/Java developers to contribute more easily and will offer innovative Open Source components to the Servoy community at large.

ServoyForge is already:

• the largest repository of Servoy Open Source components (plugins/beans/solutions/modules)
• a brand new collaboration platform for everything Servoy Open Source Software (SOSS)
• best-of-breed tools tailored for the management of Servoy development projects
• a site built by the community for the community, by developers for developers
• the place where YOU TOO can share your ideas and projects with a team of Servoy and Java developers all over the globe

Check out and bookmark ServoyForge at http://www.servoyforge.net/ .
Register at ServoyForge now (http://www.servoyforge.net/account/register) and get ready to boost your Servoy development projects!

For some time a few developers (including me) were struggling getting i18n values, created in Servoy 5 developer into the (development) database.

Before Servoy 5, i18n keys were directly created in the database messages table, but since Servoy 5 the location of the keys changed to files in the eclipse workspace. So in order to get the i18n values into the database, an export and import of a solution was needed.

Too much hassle for me, so I made this little method .

In a recent project, I was tasked with creating PDFs from Word documents.  As you already know, creating PDFs from printable Servoy objects is not too hard, but creating from documents that Servoy stores or manipulates is not as straightforward.  With the help of two open source projects, I was able to create a system that converts documents to PDFs (or to other types of documents as well).

The steps to setup a PDF converter:

1. Create an OpenOffice service (or run OpenOffice headless).
2. Create a JODConverter web service on the Application Server.
3. Write code in Servoy to utilize the web service, passing a document to the web service and receiving the PDF from the web service.

Servoy is announcing the immediate availability of Servoy 5.2 beta 1 (open source release) When installing this version all non Servoy beans and plugins have to be signed by there vendor! Plugin/beans developer should have a look here

This version is available through the download page on the Servoy website (developer section) and auto update.

The Sybase Partner Newsletter contains a remarkable headline this month:

SAP to Acquire Sybase, Inc.
Strategic Move to Accelerate the Reach of SAP® Solutions across Mobile Platforms,
Help Companies Manage and Analyze Business Information and Processes on Any Device

Maybe this is not a coincidence with Servoy making the move to PostgreSQL ? 

You can read the full article on Sybase Partner Newsletter here.

Last weekend when I was browsing on the PostgreSQL website I discovered that Servoy 5.2 is going to use PostgreSQL 8.4 instead of Sybase Anywhere 11...

Hereby a quote from the article:

We chose PostgresSQL because it is the most powerful open source database," said Jan Aleman, CEO, Servoy. "Users can also run other databases at the same time. We support Sybase, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB/2, MySQL and others out of the box." PostgreSQL has won praise from its users and industry recognition, including the Linux New Media Award for Best Database System and five-time winner of the Linux Journal Editors' Choice Award for best DBMS.

Read the full article on PostgreSQL website.

What do you guys think about this move?

Now that Servoy will be Open Source, I think it's time that the Java community have a serious look at it... Meaning it's time to talk about it to your Java friends (or foe! :)

One of the very much followed site for Java developers is DZone, and its Java dedicated Universe: the JavaLobby, this is a site by developers for developers, and there is a lot of trafic.

So, today there is a new introduction article about Servoy, check it out! - A few hours after its publication, there is already more than 900 views!

If you like this article, please vote for it, and there will be more to come.

To celebrate Servoy Stuff web site reaching 10.000 visits today, I've made available the VelocityReport plugin.

You’ve heard rumours about it: they say it is going to change forever the way you do reporting in Servoy. The truth is that now you will have yet another powerful option to build your reports.

This is yet another (French-Canadian/American) Swiss knife for Servoy brought to you by Servoy Stuff and Jeff Bader!
We've coined it 'Servoy reports - the easy way' - and it lives up to its name ;-) - Not only can you build powerful HTML reports and export them to PDF with it, but you can also use it as an internal templating tool or an extended charting tool (with as much options as Google charts) and a barcode tool.

You can download it on the Servoy Stuff web site's related page.
You will also find a wiki with extended documentation and access to the source repository on the google code site.

Enjoy!