Sprint 30 Review: Variable Editor finished and integrated into NEO

Alexander Suter

Variable Editor
NEO Workspace Management
Form Editor
Eclipse Update 2024 and Java 21
TLS Tester
Noteworthy

Louis Müller

1 - Variables Editor

Low Coder friendly Variables Editor available in NEO.

Audience

Process Developers, Low Coder

Value

Variables Editor integrated in NEO
improved UX for adding variables
- adding new variables, i.e. name and namespace, via dialog
- existing namespaces can be chosen from the dropdown menu
- user input is validated

Discussion

Feedback?

Next steps

list available variables of dependent projects
improve validation message design
NEO market integration

Screenshots / Code

Lukas Lieb

2 - NEO Workspace Management

Work further on the prototype of last review 🛠

Audience

NEO's, LOCO's, NOCO's, All

Value

Workspaces overview for user
Create / Delete workspaces
Navigate into workspace

Discussion

Next steps

Public Neo Demo (for internal testing)
Guided Welcome page
Create with template
Export / Import (app.zip, iar's)
Workspace definition file (Which projects, Libraries, e.g. who can see it, who can edit it, who is the owner)
Discuss / Solve: Hand over between low and professional coder?

Screenshots / Code

Lukas Lieb

3 - Form Editor

In this sprint, we have greatly improved the look and feel of the form editor so that it fits even better into our editor family 🙌 🥳

Audience

Process Developers

Value

Overall, we have recreated the look and behaviour of the process editor in the form editor:

Reorganized Toolbar:
- Left-aligned Components section moved to the toolbar-middle
- Added search fields within each Components section
- Improved Device Mode and Preview Mode controls
Streamlined Drag & Drop:
- Removed gray DropZone blocks for smoother interaction
- Enhanced DragOverlay for more accurate previews during dragging
Improved Properties Sidebar:
- Implemented collapsible sections for better organization
Enhanced User Guidance & Interactions:
- Added "Drag element here" hint when canvas or layout component is empty
- Properties sidebar now auto-opens and closes based on component selection
- Newly dragged or moved components are auto-selected

Discussion

Feedback?

Next steps

Add new Components?

Screenshots / Code

Alexander Suter

4 - Eclipse Update 2024-03 and Java 21

Axon Ivy is now based on Eclipse 2024-03. This fixes a lot of in-compatibilities with new operating systems.
Old versions of Axon Ivy are based on Eclipse 2022-03. You can go through all the readmes to learn what's new:

https://eclipse.dev/eclipse/news/4.24/
https://eclipse.dev/eclipse/news/4.25/
https://eclipse.dev/eclipse/news/4.26/
https://eclipse.dev/eclipse/news/4.27/
https://eclipse.dev/eclipse/news/4.28/
https://eclipse.dev/eclipse/news/4.29/
https://eclipse.dev/eclipse/news/4.30/
https://eclipse.dev/eclipse/news/4.31/

We also updated to Java 21. Axon Ivy Designer and Axon Ivy Engine requires to run with Java 21. If you run Axon Ivy Designer on Linux you need to install JDK21. Windows and MAC users are not affected, because we ship JDK 21 with the Axon Ivy Designer. You also need to install a JRE 21 on servers, if you don't use the Windows Distribution.

P.S. For Docker Users this is no problem, because the JRE is shipped within the image.

Axon Ivy Projects will be converted to Java 21. You are ready to use all features introduced between 17 and 21.

https://mydeveloperplanet.com/2023/11/01/whats-new-between-java-17-and-java-21/

Audience

Developers
Engine Operators

Value

Up2date and ready for the future

Discussion

Any feedback?

Next steps

Upgrading to Eclipse 2024-06
Upgrading Maven project-build-plugin to use Maven 3.9 instead of Maven 3.6

Screenshots / Code

Tobias Gretler

5 - TLS Tester

With the TLS Tester you can now add directly the Untrusted Certificates to the truststore. The TLS Tester now can also test JDBC connections.

Audience

Sys-Ops

Value

Secure connections to WebServices(SOAP/REST), Active-Directories(LDAPS) or Databases(JDBC) can be tested right within the Engine-Cockpit
Supported TLS standards are detected and reported 👮
Currently trusted certificates are printed 🤝
Untrusted certificates are reported ⚠️
Untrusted certificates can be added directly to the truststore ➕

Version

11.4

Discussion

Feedback

Screenshots / Code

Alexander Suter

6 - Noteworthy

CMS Bulk Change Performance
Slow Designer Startup of big workspaces
Show name of start event process in engine cockpit
Named users: Users with same name, mail and external id counts only as one
Improve process start chooser in inscription mask
Number of bytes that should be written to the log of a REST and SOAP Entity can be configured.