>>I knew you'd blow us all away with a great new paradigm! This new version of the framework opens up all kinds of new possibilities. Can't wait to get my hands on it.
>
>
>hey! what did i miss... where's the scoop jim?
First of all, we would like to say THANK YOU to all of you for your
> continued support of Mere Mortals. You have helped to make 2000 a great year
> for the Framework and build a great community of developers. We have some
> exciting things planned for 2001!
>
> So, along with wishing you a "Happy New Year", we bring the following news:
> **The premier of Advanced Mere Mortals training
> **Information about the next release of Mere Mortals
>
> ****************************************************************************
> *
> *** Mere Mortals Advanced Hands-On Training & Workshop ***
> ****************************************************************************
> *
>
> This new Mere Mortals hands-on workshop continues where the "original" Mere
> Mortals training leaves off. This 5-day workshop utilizes the
> "soon-to-be-released" version 6.1 of the Framework and takes you through the
> following phases of application development:
>
> Phase 1: Use the Unified Modeling Language along with visual modeling tools
> to analyze and design a simple application.
>
> Phase 2: Create business objects for the application that carry out the
> responsibilities identified in Phase 1. Business objects in this phase work
> against VFP data.
>
> Phase 3: Build a VFP front end to access the business object middle tier
>
> Phase 4: Build an ASP front end to access the business object middle tier
>
> Phase 5: Upsize the application to SQL server.
>
> Phase 6: Use Mere Mortals and Windows DNA technology to create a true
> three-tier, distributed architecture.
>
> Technologies covered in this workshop:
>
> ASP, ADO, XML, COM/DCOM, Visual Interdev, MTS, Rational Rose/Visual UML, UML
> Use Case Diagrams, UML Activity Diagrams, Windows DNA, Remote Views, SQL
> Pass-through.
>
> The training will be 5 days and cost $2000. Dates will be announced soon!
>
> ***************************************************************
> *** Mere Mortals version 6.1 Highlights ***
> ***************************************************************
> We appreciate everyone's patience... we decided to include some items in
> this release to make it more robust. This was partly due to Microsoft's
> delay in releasing VFP7 which drives our release of a full version upgrade.
> This did push back the delivery date, but we know you will not be
> disappointed *and* it will be free to current 6.0 users!
>
> Here are *some* of the larger enhancements that will be included in version
> 6.1:
>
> * Far easier implementation of true, three-tier distributed architecture. To
> complement KBizObj (Windows DNA emissary), we have created a new KExecutant
> (Windows DNA Executant) class.
>
> * COM Server optimization
>
> * Tight integration with XML and ADO for data manipulation and distributed
> architecture transport mechanisms.
>
> * Additional support for client-server SQL passthrough
>
> * New Subject and Observer classes that provide "Publish and Subscribe"
> capabilities outside of the COM arena.
>
> * Built-in support for multi-lingual capabilities.
>
> * Lots more documentation (this is the one that *really* delays the release
> the most!).
>
> As always, version 6.1 will be backward compatible with previous versions of
> the Framework. Look for it in first quarter 2001!