PROIV Version 6 will introduce a range of new & enhanced features, providing benefit to both existing & new customers. The release also leverages many new & updated technologies that are used by the core PROIV technology.

Integrated Product
In PROIV Version 6, what were previously separate components are integrated into a single, consistent product set.

PROIV Version 6 includes the Web Development tool, a new Bus server (high performance API into PROIV), a new Web Services framework, a new Multi-Lingual lexicon and a new web based Management Framework. This Framework allows PROIV installations to be easily managed from a single console.

Interoperability – Bus and Web Services Framework
An external communication interface to PROIV is implemented via the PROIV Bus.

The PROIV Version 6 Bus is a replacement for the previous Bus, but embracing newer technologies. It is written in Java & provides the improved scalability and performance required to support the PROIV Web Services component, as well as providing improved diagnostics, statistics gathering and better leveraging of open authentication protocols.

PROIV Web Services allows PROIV developed components to be quickly & easily exposed as Web Services using a point & click publish / withdraw facility. PROIV does all of the “plumbing”, generating the required WSDL and providing a Web Service endpoint for calling the Web Service.

A later release of PROIV Version 6 will introduce a facility for a PROIV application to call an external Web Service.

Presentation layer enhancements
PROIV Version 6 extends the capabilities of the existing Windows Client with new Programmable menus & toolbars, ActiveX extensions and easier integration of the PROIV client with 3rd party automated QA tools.

PROIV Virtual Machine – enhanced processing
A new Server Side Object facility is available which enables easy dynamic linking to 3rd party business objects running alongside the PROIV Virtual Machine. Initially these can be Java beans or .NET controls (on Windows platforms), but this will subsequently be extended to include other object types including a Web Service object.

PROIV Version 6 also includes an enhanced XML reporting & processing engine.

Platforms – 64 bit & Databases
PROIV Version 6 introduces support for 64 bit Windows and Linux operating systems, and PROIV continues to track the market leading databases. The main supported databases are Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2000/2005, PostgreSQL 8 (on both UNIX and Windows) and Reality 11.

Multi-Lingual Phase 1 – Latin based languages
PROIV Version 6 Multilingual introduces a new shared lexicon that will hold translations (alternate meanings) for textual references within a PROIV application. It supports multiple languages or translations from a single source version of a PROIV application. Note this release of Multilingual only supports Latin based (Western European) languages.

Development Environment
The development environment is enhanced to itself make use of the new PROIV Version 6 features. In addition, new developer features include source code output as XML (with rendition to HTML and PDF options via XSL / FOP), and tuneable logic editor parsing.