1. OVERVIEW
2. WHAT IS NEW IN THIS RELEASE
3. KNOWN ISSUES
4. SUPPORT

Product documentation, manuals and tutorials may be found at: http://www.basis.com/products/devtools/barista/documentation/

This is the initial release of the Barista™ Application Framework, a powerful framework that allows developers to build an application quickly by simply defining the data and its interrelationships. Barista is not a code generator; rather, it provides a standard framework that handles the navigation, display, search, and file maintenance requirements of the typical data-driven GUI application. While it provides callpoints to enable the developer to include proprietary business logic, Barista itself handles the vast majority of the standard application programming, providing a fast way to create modern-looking applications with existing or new data sets.

The following Barista documentation is available:

Barista Overview

• BASIS Brews a New Product  (1 MB .pdf ) - Reprint of "Brewing up GUI Apps With Barista Application Framework"

 Barista Documentation

• Create and Synchronize Applications (250 KB .pdf) - Describes the processes and functions used to create a brand new application in Barista, and how to synchronize that application with newer versions of Barista.
• Getting Started (4.5MB pdf) - Full Barista product documentation
• BASIS DD Definition Import Utility (88 KB .pdf) - Instructs users how to import existing BASIS Data Dictionary definition into Barista.

 Barista Tutorials (in process)

• Beginner Barista Tutorial
  • Full version (1.1 MB .pdf)
  • Abbreviated version (550 KB .pdf)
• Intermediate Barista Tutorials
  • Using the Form Designer (700 KB .pdf)
  • Callpoints (600 KB .pdf )
  • Form Types, Editor, and Foreign Keys (200 KB .pdf)

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