BASIS International Ltd. announces the release of BBj® 6.0, the newest and most robust version of Business BASIC to date. Customers who attended TechCon2006 raved about the new 6.0 features and expressed excitement about using the capabilities.

Certified on Java™ 5.0, BBj 6.0 highlights include support for 64-bit processors, Custom Objects, BBjEvent Objects, Triggers, Stored Procedures, VKEYED file type, AppBuilder, and Autorun.

General Features

• Support for 64-bit ports
• Enhanced Memory Management and program/resource caching - optimally manages saved copies of program and resource files in memory

Language/Interpreter

• Custom Objects – allows developers to create custom object-oriented classes
• BBjEvent Objects – provides object-oriented access to BBjEvents
• BBjProgramInfo – provides programmatic access to information about a program
• Type Checker – enables compile-time error checking instead runtime checking
• Clipboard support for .bmp, .jpg, and .png image formats
• DENUM – removes line numbers from BBj code
• Mouse Scroll Wheel Event and Interface MouseWheelEnabled – defines the behavior of the mouse wheel scroll and how it affects the control
• SAVEP/CLEARP Verb – provides password protected tokenization and listing of programs
• Window Move Event – reports the user moved a window

Database Management

• Triggers – enables implicit execution of code for insert, updates, and deletes
• Stored Procedures – gives ODBC/JDBC-enabled applications ability to execute BBx code
• VKEYED files – allows variable length records and dynamic key allocation
• ESQL – exclusive SQL access provides significant performance gains for data warehousing
• BBjAPI::getBBjPDFForm – allows creation of a PDF document
• BBjFileInfo – provides methods to interact with an open file channel
• BBjKeyInfo – provides ability to dynamically manipulate VKEYED file key chains

Development Tools

• BASIS IDE code completion – delivers quick, error-free entry of method parameters for custom, Java, BBjAPI, and Event Objects
• PRO/5 execution – adds support for PRO/5 interpreters
• Thin client execution – enables remote development by optionally starting a thin client connection to a remote server
• AppBuilder – introduces an integrated RAD development tool
• Performance Analyzer – improves analysis; adds color highlighting and user-defined filters for easier application optimization

System Administration

• BBj Autorun – adds administrator control of which BBj programs run automatically when BBjServices starts
• Enterprise Manager – includes new JVM selector, Triggers, SPROC, and AutoRun configuration support

Read more detail about these new features and functionality in the BBj release documents and download BBj 6.0 today.

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