BaseX-Announce December 2014

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BaseX Users Meetup, XML Prague 2015
by Christian Grün 18 Dec '14

18 Dec '14

Hi all, We are pleased to officially announce our BaseX Users Meetup 2015, collocated with the XML Prague Conference. It will take place on Friday, 14:30 – 18:00. The current sessions and the list of speakers are listed on Lanyrd and, soon, the conference site: http://lanyrd.com/2015/basex http://www.xmlprague.cz/pre-conference-friday XML Prague continues to be the biggest, most interesting and, at the same time, very affordable XML event in Europe. If you haven't gone there yet, this is your chance! Looking forward to seeing you; merry BaseXMas, Christian

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Re: [basex-announce] [basex-talk] BaseX 8.0: DBA
by Christian Grün 13 Dec '14

13 Dec '14

Hi Andy, > It does not show the name of the logged in user. True! It now does. > Indeed I have previously looked to get this information > and it does not seem to be available via any BaseX function. Is this > intentional? Information on the logged in user is stored in a session variable, which I am requesting via the Session Module (see global.xqm and users.xqm). In the long term, I would like to bring database and RESTXQ users closer together, as they have many similar properties. Commands like SHOW USERS or KILL could then be extended to also work for users that are registered via HTTP sessions. I have just uploaded a new snapshot. In the "Users" panel, under "Browser Sessions", all users are now listed who are currently logged in in the DBA. Cheers, Christian

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Re: [basex-announce] [basex-talk] BaseX 8.0: DBA
by Christian Grün 12 Dec '14

12 Dec '14

Thanks all for the first DBA feedback. Will be incorporated before the official release. On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Andy Bunce <bunce.andy(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Christian, > > The DBA looks good. > One comment inspired by a quick play with it. It does not show the name of > the logged in user. Indeed I have previously looked to get this information > and it does not seem to be available via any BaseX function. Is this > intentional? > > /Andy > > On 11 December 2014 at 23:30, Christian Grün <christian.gruen(a)gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> This is yet another update on the next, upcoming version of BaseX: >> >> We have added a new database administration (DBA) web frontend to our >> ZIP and EXE distributions. It allows you to create and administrate >> databases, evaluate queries in realtime, view log files, manage users, >> and more. It was completely written with XQuery and RESTXQ, apart from >> a few lines of Javascript code. >> >> The new frontend was added due to the known shortcomings of the Java >> GUI, which cannot be used to run queries on other servers. As a >> consequence, we have removed the server dialog from the desktop >> application. We hope that DBA will help you to write your own web >> applications based on RESTXQ! >> >> Some more infos and design goals can be found in our Wiki [1]. >> >> Have fun, we are looking forward to your feedback, >> Christian >> >> PS: NO, the web frontend does not provide all the cute features of the >> desktop gui, like the treemap, scatterplot, syntax highlighting, etc… >> But it may provide some of them in future. Your contributions are >> welcome! >> >> [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/DBA

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BaseX 8.0: DBA
by Christian Grün 11 Dec '14

11 Dec '14

Hi all, This is yet another update on the next, upcoming version of BaseX: We have added a new database administration (DBA) web frontend to our ZIP and EXE distributions. It allows you to create and administrate databases, evaluate queries in realtime, view log files, manage users, and more. It was completely written with XQuery and RESTXQ, apart from a few lines of Javascript code. The new frontend was added due to the known shortcomings of the Java GUI, which cannot be used to run queries on other servers. As a consequence, we have removed the server dialog from the desktop application. We hope that DBA will help you to write your own web applications based on RESTXQ! Some more infos and design goals can be found in our Wiki [1]. Have fun, we are looking forward to your feedback, Christian PS: NO, the web frontend does not provide all the cute features of the desktop gui, like the treemap, scatterplot, syntax highlighting, etc… But it may provide some of them in future. Your contributions are welcome! [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/DBA

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BaseX 8.0: Updates, User Management
by Christian Grün 10 Dec '14

10 Dec '14

Hi all, Since a while now, BaseX 8.0 is on the agenda, and we are busy finishing all the features requested by you and ourselves. As promised, there will be no changes in the database layout: You can easily move on to 8.0 without needing to migrate your existing data. However, we have decided to discard the old user management in favor of a more up-to-date architecture [1]. Here are some of the most prominent changes: • An XQuery User Module allows you to manage users via XQuery • Permissions can now be manually edited (all credentials will be stored as XML) • Instead of md5, we now use salted sha256 hashes • Additionally, digest hashes are used for the new HTTP Digest Authentication, and for the existing client bindings (cram-md5 was dropped) As a result, credentials of existing databases cannot be migrated to 8.0. Moreover, the existing language bindings will need to be updated. The changes are marginal, so it shouldn't be a big deal [2]. If you want to help us, we welcome you to update your favorite bindings to the latest standard! And as you can guess… The latest snapshot is online [3]. Thanks for your attention, Christian PS: Our BaseX Users Meetup has been confirmed. It will be attached to the XMLPrague conference, and it will take place February 13 in the afternoon [4]. More to come! [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/User_Management [2] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Clients [3] http://files.basex.org/releases/latest [4] http://lanyrd.com/2015/basex/

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BaseX-Announce December 2014