ooRexx 5.0.0 Released

Rony G. Flatscher — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 17:50:02 -0000

On December 23rd, 2022, ooRexx 5.0.0 got released.

ooRexx 5.0.0 is a milestone release. It contains many valuable new features and improves speed considerably compared to its predecessor ooRexx 4.2.0.

To see a list of the new features and the many improvements consult the documentation's CHANGES.txt file.

You can get ooRexx 5.0.0 here: ooRexx 5.0.0 Binaries and the accompanying documentation (PDF and HTML) from: ooRexx 5.0.0 Documentation.

ooRexx: 4.0 Beta Now Available

Rick McGuire — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:21:33 -0000

Home of the Open Object Rexx Project. ooRexx is the open source version of IBM's Object REXX Interpreter. It is upwardly compatible with classic REXX and will execute classic REXX programs unchanged. The project is managed by the Rexx Language Assoc. The first beta of ooRexx 4.0 is now available at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=119701 (SourceForge). The beta program will last as long as necessary or until the team deems the product ready for release. The team believes the beta will last until at least until May 30, 2009. This should give everyone time for testing their current production programs against this new release. But if additional time is needed then the team will consider such requests. Here is a partial list of the enhancements and improvements available in ooRexx 4.0. - The entire guts of the interpreter have been ripped out and replaced. This will enhance the interpreter in several ways including specifically performance, maintainability, and extensibility. - A whole new set of application programming interfaces (APIs) have been added. Although these utilize C++ they are extremely easy to use. All of the external function libraries have been upgraded to use these new APIs. - RexxUtil and all the other standard external function libraries have been converted to utilize the new C++ APIs. In many cases this will improve the execution speed of some of the functions. - Several new utility classes have been added including a sockets class, Mime classes, and SMTP classes. - The documentation has been enhanced and includes additional information on the new C++ APIs as well as the new classes and methods that are available. - The *nix versions of rxapi now runs as a system wide daemon. Shared memory has been eliminated in this program and it now uses a sockets interface for communication. - ooDialog has been revised to utilize the new C++ APIs. Many new classes and methods have been added. A large number of bugs have also been fixed. - The ooRexx Subversion incubator also has a number of new subprojects which demonstrate the new C++ APIs. These include RexxGTK and Mod_ooRexx, both of which will be released soon after ooRexx 4.0 is released. We also hope to expand the number of platforms the ooRexx supports but as yet we have no specifc plans in this area. W. David Ashley for the ooRexx Team

ooRexx 4.0 Alpha Available

Rick McGuire — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:21:33 -0000

The ooRexx Team is pleased to announce the availability of ooRexx 4.0 Alpha. This is a pre-beta release we are making available for testing purposes. It is 98% feature complete and has been tested using our regression suite. There are 32-bit and 64-bit versions available for Windows and Linux. Other platforms may follow later. W encourage everyone to doenload this release and test it in your environment. We feel it is very stable but you may find incompatibilities that need to be reported. You can obtain this Alpha release at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=119701&package_id=130405&release_id=661652 The docs are available at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=119701&package_id=143246 You can report bus at http://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?group_id=119701&atid=684730. Report them for the 4.0beta category. Feedback for this release is most welcome. Please try it out and report anything questionable. Thanks, David Ashley for the ooRexx Team

ooRexx 3.2.0 Is Now Available

Rick McGuire — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:21:33 -0000

Announcement Open Object Rexx Version 3.2.0 November 5, 2007 The Rexx Language Association (RexxLA) and the Open Object Rexx Development Team are pleased to announce the availability of Open Object Rexx (ooRexx) version 3.2.0. ooRexx 3.2.0 is the latest open source version of IBM's old Object REXX interpreter. It is released under the Common Public License (CPL) v1.0. This version builds on the previous versions by adding a host of new builtin classes and features. There are a very large number of fixes and enhancements in this release that are too numerous to list here. The number of supported platforms and operating systems is large and the source is readily available to compile it on the platform of your choice in the event a version is not available for your platform. The known supported platforms are: Windows 2000/XP/Vista RedHat Linux 4/5 (i386 and PPC) Fedora 6/7 (i386) SUSE Linux 9/10 (i386) Ubunti Linux 6.04/7.04 Debian Linux 4.0 Mac OSX (i386 and PPC) AIX 5.2/5.3 Solaris 9 (i386) (to follow later) The documentation has also been improved and reorganized. It is available in both PDF and HTML formats. The new ooRexx release and documentation may be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=119701 The main web site for the ooRexx Project is http://www.oorexx.org/ The main project web site for ooRexx is http://sourceforge.net/projects/oorexx/ The web site for the Rexx Language Association is http://www.rexxla.org/ The ooRexx Development Team would like to thank the beta testers for this release. With their invaluable help we are able to provide a release that has been tested not only on our test suite but on many customer's production code. The ooRexx Development Team invites all individuals and corporations to contribute to the ooRexx Project. There are many ways to contribute from writing C/C++ code to administering aspects of the project. We also need developers willing to write and maintain tests for every aspect of ooRexx. We also need contributors to our wiki located on SourceForge. Monetary or hardware contributions are also appreciated. The Open Object Rexx Development Team

ooRexx 3.1.2 Released

Rick McGuire — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:21:33 -0000

The Rexx Language Association and the ooRexx Project Team are proud to announce the official release of ooRexx 3.1.2. This release supports a number of platforms. Windows 2000/XP/Vista Red Hat Linux 4 i386 Red Hat Linux 4 PPC Fedora Core 6 Open Suse 10.1 and 10.2 Debian Sarge Ubuntu 6.10 and 7.04 Solaris i386 AIX 5.2 an 5.3 Apple Mac OSX (package available at a later time) This release contains a number of new features and fixes including, but not limited to the following (see the Changes document for all changes in this release). http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=119701 This release contains a number of new feature and fixes. - Fixed ooRexx to run correctly on Windows Vista - Fixed a segmenattion fault on Linux for large programs - New methods added for the MutableBuffer and String classes - A number of Windows OLE bugs have been fixed - Added new user subcode to all messages - Added the instanceOf method to the Object class - Fixed ooDialog large program segmentation fault - Added an OLE interface to Open Office - Many documentation fixes, enhancements and clarifications Please report any bugs or problems to the SourceForge ooRexx tracker page. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=119701&atid=684730 Thanks, W. David Ashley Open Object Rexx Team

ooRexx v3.1 Now Available

Rick McGuire — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:21:32 -0000

The Rexx Language Association is proud to announce the release of Open Object Rexx v3.1. The release is available now at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=119701. The release covers a number of platforms including Linux, Windows, AIX and Solaris. Other platforms will be added over the next few weeks. This release has a long list of bug fixes and has been under development for over a year. It also incorporates a number of new features including new RexxUtil functions and new methods on a number of the builtin classes as well as a new CircularQueue builtin class. The documentation has a number of updates and enhancements and can be downloaded from the same page as the code.

ooRexx 3.1 Beta 2 Released

Rick McGuire — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:21:32 -0000

ooRexx version 3.1 Beta 2 has been released along with beta 5 of the documentation.

Updated Documentation for Open Object Rexx

Rick McGuire — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:21:32 -0000

The documentation for Open Object Rexx 3.0.0 has been updated. The latest documents support highlighted links, PDF meta info, and document indexing. All of the documentation is available in PDF format.

Open Object Rexx 3.0.0 released

Rick McGuire — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:21:32 -0000

The first release of ooRexx; the Open Source release of IBM's previous commercial Object REXX interpreter is now available. For further details see the ooRexx home page at http://www.oorexx.org

ooRexx 3.1 Beta 1 Available

Rick McGuire — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:21:31 -0000

Open Object Rexx 3.1 Beta 1 is available for testing in the Files section. This version includes a new Windows installer and many enhancements to the interpreter.

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