Re: What's different between Designer 6 and 6i

Hi Brian:

    What's the upgrade like? Can you put D6i in its own separate home and have it coexist on the same machine as D6? Or does D6i need to go into the "default" home like D6 did?

    Do you switch to Forms6i at the same time or does D6i work with Forms6? And do you migrate your current repository or does D6i work with the one you've got?

    We've got a (reasonably) stable D6 machine working and I can't get another machine for now. So I don't want to do anything to mess up D6.

Van

"Brian Duff" <Brian.Duff_at_oracle.com> wrote in message news:kVfl5.1397$pR4.23278_at_news6-win.server.ntlworld.com...
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> "Simong" <simong_at_explor.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:InAk5.1622$Vc.1266401_at_newsr2.u-net.net...
> > Hi people,
> >
> > Please could anybody help me find out what the new features of 6i are
 and
> > what are the differences between version 6 and 6i.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > SDG
> >
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> The Repository has changed significantly for Designer 6i - in fact, it is
> now considered as a separate product. One of the major changes is support
> for element level versioning (i.e. the Repository supports version control
> for all element types), which is exposed through the Designer tools (e.g.
> you can check in/out entities / relationships in the ER modeler). The RON
> has considerable support for this new feature, including several new tools
> for configuration management, version history viewing, merge and
 comparison
> tools. The Dependency Manager is a major new tool for determining the
 impact
> of changing objects in an application by graphically displaying dependency
> data. There is also a new command line tool for writing scripts or running
> commands against the Repository.
>
> Repository can also now be used as a general SCM tool (like CVS,
 ClearCase,
> PVCS etc.). There is already support for this in Developer and JDeveloper
> 3.2 will support Repository SCM.
>
> There has been a considerable bug fixing effort as well; I was personally
> involved a while back, in bugfixing Repository Reports for the 6i
 release -
> a list of all the fixed bugs is available on install of Designer 6i.
>
> Repository is my particular area of knowledge: I'll let someone else extol
> the virtues of the Designer 6i tools themselves...
>
> Brian
>
>
>
Received on Sun Aug 13 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST