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 release addresses several reported bugs and suggested enhancements. For a list of resolved QA memos, see the file: https://www.basis.com/products/bbj/barista_fixes000.txt.

This is the second maintenance 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.

• Internationalization – adds the option to build and run forms in multiple languages. This powerful enhancement is based on easily modified text language property files, and provides developers with the ability to create global applications from a single code base.
• E-mail – enables users to create e-mail containing any document directed to the Barista Document Output System. Additionally, users can interactively access e-mail account records and select various attachments.
• Integrated Help System – provides the standard help options for accessing the Barista topics. This initial release offers contents, index and search abilities.
• Callpoint Performance Tracking - assists developers in fine tuning their custom callpoint programs by creating trace files that can be used by the BBj Performance Analyzer.

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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