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Blue World ships Lasso Professional 7 web server

updated 03:20 am EST, Wed December 10, 2003

Lasso Professional 7


Blue World Communications has released , a significant upgrade to its Web application server for building and serving data-driven Web sites. Lasso Professional 7 delivers support for various industry standards, over 220 new tags, a full commercial license of MySQL 4, image manipulation options, data caching, internationalization, multi-server support, security enhancements, Apache 2 support, better PDF file support, improved administration, and optimizations for Panther and G5 Power Macs. A $50 discount is being offered on Lasso 7 through the end of the month for both upgrades and full licenses.

"Lasso developers appreciate the ease with which they can build and serve
powerful data-driven Web solutions using Lasso," said Bill Doerrfeld, CEO of
Blue World. "Lasso Professional 7 continues the Lasso legacy via significant
advancements in features, flexibility, stability and security while maintaining
maximum ease-of-use and backward compatibility."




Lasso Profesional 7 also brings transaction support, better performance, SOAP/WSDL/XML support, recursion protection, support for remote installation, an improved installer, better error reporting. Blueworld also says that "much of the built-in functionality of LP7 is available to developers for modification using either C, Java or LDML." New open-source components include Lasso Connector for Apache 2 and all of the provided LDML-based custom tags (e.g. caching, validation, security, and link tags).



Lasso Professional 7 supports Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.2 running Apache 1.3, Apache 2 or WebSTAR V. LP7 also supports Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Professional and Windows 2000 running Internet Information Services versions 5 or 6. Registered users of Lasso Pro 6, Lasso Pro 5 Standard Edition or Lasso Web Data Engine 3.x may upgrade to Lasso 7 for $350, $450 and $550, respectively. Customers who purchased a new or upgrade license of Lasso Professional 6 between September 9, 2003 and December 9, 2003 can order a free upgrade to Lasso Professional 7 via the Blue World Store.


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    12/10, 05:45am | report spam | Reply |

    Not a server!

    it's not a server, it's "middleware".

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    middleware/server? huh?

    explain the difference?

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    12/10, 12:49pm | report spam | Reply |

    the difference?

    middleware is kinda like a plugin or addon to enhance the functionality of another program.

    Lasso (I haven't worked with it since version 3) needs a webserver software to do the webserving as it concentrates on doing the data handling, etc.

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    12/10, 12:53pm | report spam | Reply |

    Hm.

    I wonder if it still sucks.

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    Compared to?

    Compared to version 6?

    We used it here at our company (still chugging away) with version 3.3.6. It actually was extremely fast to deploy web applications into Filemaker. It's now marked as Legacy because we're Java/Oracle for development, but thought with MySQL built in, that it would be 'hugely' improved since it's version 7, 4 versions newer than I know!

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    12/10, 08:59pm | report spam | Reply |

    it does NOT still suck

    we use it here, and it is NICE.

    this lastest version, esspecially, seems to be great: unicode, image manipulation, and way fast.

    a bit of Lasso code, for the unitiated:





    it really makes for pretty code

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    the code..


    Var: 'paths' = (Array);
    Var: 'knownPathArrays' = (Map);
    Records: -InlineName='Retrieved';
    Local: 'a_Path' = ((Field: 'title')->Split: '/');
    If: #a_Path->Isa: Array;
    If: #a_Path->Last == '';
    #a_Path->(Remove: (#a_Path->Size));
    /If;
    While: (#a_Path->Size) > 1;
    Define: -Name=('paths' + (#a_Path->Size)), -Default=(Array);
    If: ($knownPathArrays->(Find: ('paths' + (#a_Path->Size))))->Size == 0;
    $knownPathArrays->Insert: ('paths' + (#a_Path->Size))='';
    /If;
    If: (((Var: ('paths' + (#a_Path->Size)))->Find: #a_Path)->Size) == 0;
    (Var: ('paths' + (#a_Path->Size)))->Insert: #a_Path;
    /If;
    Local: 'thisPath' = (#a_Path->Join: '/');
    If: !(#thisPath->EndsWith: '/');
    #thisPath += '/';
    /If;
    If: (($paths->Find: #thisPath)->Size) == 0;
    $paths->(Insert: (#thisPath));
    /If;
    #a_Path->(Remove: (#a_Path->Size));
    /While;
    /If;
    $paths->Sort:true;
    /Records;

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    12/11, 08:00pm | report spam | Reply |

    heh

    So it has improved since 6? I've been dealing with it since version 3, supporting users, and it's generally an unstable nightmare. I hope it's better.

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