BRIDGE 7 is out! Next to new applications like API-Management and new features like OData Support, the BRIDGE comes in a revised design. Find below a summary of all new features and operational and technical improvements.
To use BRIDGE 7, you need a new BRIDGE license - please contact us at info@e2ebridge.com for more information. Our Bridge 7 Migration Guide will help you with the task of updating your systems, then. |
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. |
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).
The EDI Adapter now also supports OFTP2 and AS2 formats:
The feature includes pre-built service templates including a user interface for configuration of transport channels and communication partners.
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.
The Alias Reader enables you to get the details that have been specified on any alias from the component diagram. You can now get the alias details with an action node with stereotype <<AliasReader>>. This adapter replaces the deployment macros get...FromAlias().
For more information on the Alias Reader, please refer to Alias Reader.
The Persistent State Control Adapter gives access to persistent state metadata directly from within a service (self context). With this adapter, you can:
The query functionality in particular is powerful and allows for very complex queries.
See Retrieving Persistent State Metadata with the PersistentStateControl Adapter for more details.
You can mark attributes of a persistent state class as external by applying stereotype <<External>>. This can speed-up persistent state performance if you have huge data objects (like e.g. big blobs, IDocs or PDFs) that are only used in few transitions.
External persistent data is handled differently compared to the internal data:
For more information, refer to Persistent State Classes and Getting Copies of Persistent State Objects.
As of BRIDGE 7.5.0, the xUML Runtime provides a REST interface to the controller service of each xUML service. Initially, you can access persistent state resources via this API, but we plan to add more service related resources.
Bridges as of BRIDGE 7.5.0 provide an OpenAPI 2.0 Specification of the controller service for documentation and testing purposes. Via a link on the xUML service page, you can access a REST service documentation page where you can inspect the service interface and make HTTP calls on the service. |
The following operating systems now are supported officially as a system to run the BRIDGE on:
We have redesigned the user interface of the BRIDGE to give you a smoother user experience. |
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. |
Front-end service port numbers now are configurable on the BRIDGE. |
You now can specify a service version in the component diagram, similar to the library version number (see Creating a Component Diagram > Defining the Composite). The service version will be visible on the BRIDGE in several places, e.g. on the improved Version tab (see Additional xUML Service Tabs). The deployment dialog now shows a table with service details, e.g. the new service version (see Deployment of xUML Services). Additionally, if the service to be deployed is already existent, you can now compare the service details of the new and the deployed service. This helps you to better decide, if you are deploying the correct repository. |
We updated some underlying software to newer versions:
Lots of new features, improvements and bug fixes for BUILDER, ANALYZER and BRIDGE help developers to create better services:
Improved BPMN root state machine with more complex error and retry handling (see The Model Implementing the BPMN Process and BPMN Default Error Handling)