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Overview of new features

• The server settings now have the default scope set to local. If you do not scope variables, we recommend that you do, you will need to change this setting in the witango.ini file to user.
• The httpheader config variable does not function the same way as Tango 2000. You will now need to send complete http headers, not partial header like Tango 2000 allowed. There are 2 new tags to assist you in formulating http headers
• TCF objects now operate in shared scopes without crashing the server.
• If the Witango Server crashes on Windows 2000, the crash will be logged to the witangoevents.log file. The logging will identify the TAF and action that was executing when the server crashed. It is vital that these types of issues are reported back to us via the bug tracking facilities of this site.
• The Witango Application Server for OS X currently has both the OCI and ODBC interfaces enabled, but the FileMaker datasource is disabled. The Witango Application Server for FileMaker will go into beta testing in a few weeks time. The Dev Studio for OS X does however have the FileMaker datasource enabled.
• There are currently no Data Direct ODBC drivers available for use with a darwin process such as the Witango Application Server for OS X. Data Direct have indicated that beta versions may be available by October 2002. If you require MS SQL connectivity from the OS X platform, we recommend testing with the Openlink Software drivers that are compatible with iODBC.
• iODBC, unixODBC and OCI installation instructions and how to configure the Dev Studio for OS X to utilise these drivers will be made available by Monday 12th of August.
• Scope your variables always. This make more robust code and takes load of the server as it does not have to search the different scopes for the variable name.
• Local scope has be changed to request scope. Local scope has been kept as an alias to request scope to ensure backward compatability. This describe more accurately the life of the variable.
• Request and method scope have been optimised for speed and they will operate faster than the shared scopes
• Quote your parameter values, especially if they are string values
• There are still several api calls in OS X that are not thread safe which under load may cause the Witango Application Server for OS X to deadlock or crash. We are currently working with Apple to resolve these issues. This is not a problem on Windows 2000.