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New Features

This release of PowerDynamo has several major new features:

• Java You can access Java classes from within Dynamo scripts. For information see "PowerDynamo and Java".
• XML PowerDynamo now supports XML You can create queries that generate output in either HTML or XML. For more information see "Working with XML Documents".
• Mail Several objects have been added to PowerDynamo that enable the sending, receiving, and manipulation of mail from within a PowerDynamo Web site. For more information see "PowerDynamo Mail Support".
• FTP Several objects have been added to PowerDynamo that provide FTP functionality to PowerDynamo Web sites. These objects are documented in "DynaScript Predefined Objects" in the PowerDynamo Reference.
• ECMAScript compatible PowerDynamo is now ECMAScript compatible. The ECMAScript objects are documented in "DynaScript Predefined Objects" in the PowerDynamo Reference.
• Invoking Jaguar CTS components PowerDynamo clients can access Jaguar components through Java, ActiveX, SQL queries or PowerDynamo tags. For information on PowerDynamo and Jaguar see "Calling Jaguar Component Methods from PowerDynamo".
• UNIX Dynamo is now available on AIX with NSAPI, CGI, and the Personal Web Server. CGI and the Personal Web Server are now available on Solaris (NSAPI is supported from previous Dynamo releases).

New objects, properties and methods

The following objects (along with their methods and properties) are new to PowerDynamo:

• Java object
• Incoming mail object
• Outgoing mail object
• Mail list object
• Attachment object
• Recipient object
• FTP object
• DOMAttribute object
• DOMCDATASection object
• DOMCharacterData object
• DOMComment object
• DOMDocument object
• DOMDocumentFragment object
• DOMDocumentType object
• DOMElement object
• DOMEntity object
• DOMEntityReference object
• DOMImplementation object
• DOMNamedNodeMap object
• DOMNode object
• DOMNodeList object
• DOMNotation object
• DOMProcessingInstruction object
• DOMText object

The following properties and methods are new to PowerDynamo

• java.CreateObject( )
• java.GetHomeInterface()
• java.GetUserTransaction()
• query.cursorType
• query.stripTrailingBlanks
• query.ResultsToXMLString( )

PowerDynamo built-in functions

The following built-ins have been added to PowerDynamo:

• xmlEscape( )
• toXMLString( )

PowerDynamo tags

The following tags have been added to PowerDynamo:

• COMPONENT
• ENDIF
• ELSE
• ELSEIF
• FORMAT_AS (attribute on FORMATTING tag)
• IF
• MAILPIECE
• STRIP_TRAILING_BLANKS (attribute on FORMATTING tag)
• USE_CDATA (attribute on FORMATTING tag)

Other New Features

• You can set event handlers for 404 (not found) messages.
• New ability to test if a connection is valid from within Sybase Central.
• From within Sybase Central you can:
  
  • Test whether a connection is valid.
  • Change the directory to which a linked folder refers.
  
  

You can use relative paths in Dynamo.

You can execute a script before a user session times out.

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