Main Features
API Management
BRIDGE 7 comes with Scheer PAS API Management. API Management offers a maximum of control regarding administration and optimization of your APIs. You can setup different permission levels for usage and administration of APIs, services and clients, and control the publishing of contracts in real-time in a flexible way. Access to the interfaces is possible either via (immutable) contracts or via use of public APIs.
The API Management solution has three components which can be deployed on different host to get maximum performance and stability:
API Management is based on apiman and Keycloak. For more information, refer to the API Management documentation. |
Process Mining
The Process Dashboards have been completely redesigned. The new Scheer PAS Process Mining allows for intuitive and easy creation of new analyses and comes with significant performance improvements.
Process Mining comes with a personalized dashboard view. Manage all your analyses on one page!
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Create your diagrams to your needs.
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Analyze process variants and their frequency with the Process Explorer to get a deeper insight to your business processes and find potential for optimization.
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For more information, please refer to the official Process Mining documentation (German only).
New Adapters
EDI
The EDI Adapter now also supports OFTP2 and AS2 formats:
- OFTP 2 is a specification for the secure transfer of business documents over the Internet.
- AS2 is a specification about how to transport data (like Edifact documents) securely and reliably over the Internet.
The feature includes pre-built service templates including a user interface for configuration of transport channels and communication partners.
OData Support
The BRIDGE now supports OData for querying and updating databases using REST. The protocol allows Web clients to get, publish and edit database resources using simple HTTP messages. Using OData, you can easily integrate with SAP NetWeaver Gateway, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Sharepoint and more.
For more information on the OData Adapter, please refer to OData Adapter and Importing OData Entities and Services.
Continuous Delivery with the BRIDGE
- Based on a straightforward and repeatable process, the continuous delivery approach helps with building, testing and releasing software faster. You can automate your build, deploy, and testing processes using an automation tool together with the BRIDGE command line tools.
For more information, please refer to Continuous Delivery with the BRIDGE. - For automation purposes, all Bridge functions can be accessed via a REST interface.
For more information, please refer to BRIDGE API. - The BRIDGE Command Line Interface has been reworked and now offers many new features. You now can access most of the actions of the BRIDGE API via the CLI.
- viewing and setting the service preferences and the service settings of xUML, Node.js and Java services
- advanced handling of xUML services (list services, view status, view/change service documentation, list/cancel running sessions, download repository)
- resource handling (list, upload, delete)
- listing global variables
Operational Improvements
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016 now is supported officially as a system to run the BRIDGE on.
New BRIDGE Design
We have redesigned the user interface of the BRIDGE to give you a smoother user experience. |
Improved Search in Log Files
We have refurbished the Logging tab in the user interface of the BRIDGE. You now can use regular expression to search the logs and even search throughout all existing logfiles of the service. For more information, please refer to Logging of xUML Services. |
Configurable Service Port Numbers
Front-end service port numbers now are configurable on the BRIDGE. |
Technical Changes
We updated some underlying software to newer versions:
- Node.js updated to version 8 (Carbon)
- Java updated to version 11
- proxy updated to Apache httpd version 2.4
- TLS 1.3 supported
New Features for Developers
Lots of new features, improvements and bug fixes for BUILDER, ANALYZER and BRIDGE help developers to create better services:
- Extended BRIDGE API: delete service, export xUML service, deploy service, get/put global setting variables, get/delete service sessions, kill service, managing users and groups (see BRIDGE API)
- REST, HTTP and SOAP services support IPv6
- REST Adapter supports media type parameters
- SQL Adapter requests can be cancelled (see BRIDGE Status Tab )
- Improved BPMN root state machine with more complex error and retry handling (see The Model Implementing the BPMN Process and BPMN Default Error Handling)
- File System Adapter and Flat File Adapter allow for setting a static root path together with a dynamic file name (see File System Components)
- Analyzer allows to start a test suite via command line (see Running Regression Tests From Command Line )
- Possibility to implement a shutdown activity for Node.js and Java services (see Developing Node.js Services and Java Services Reference Guide)
- Improved deployment view on the BRIDGE: service details displayed (see Deployment of xUML Services)
- and many, many more ..