REX - waRehouse EXplorer / News: Recent posts

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Warehouse Explorer v 0.8 has some usability enhancements and some issues have been resolved. It's now much easier to identify which XMLA provider you're connecting to and easier to debug in case you've got any query errors. There's also a timeout (defaulted to 60 seconds) so that in case a query is either taking too long, or the server cancels it, Warehouse explorer won't stop.

The memory allocation has also been increased to 1GB now to accommodate larger results.

Version 0.7 has been released and includes the following updates:

Bi-directional MDX Query Builder – graphical design of a query using drag and drop has been enhanced with support for population of the graphical tree using a valid query (currently functions are not supported).
Loading and saving of queries and the query builder tree state has been added.

Menu bar – a menu bar has been added to enhance usability... read more

First of all, thanks to Hartley and the guys from Cincom for contributing with:

- Rex wizard dialog
- "Save to JSP" option in Mdx Editor right click popup menu (to be used in Tomcat-Mondrian environment)
- Fixing panel resizing issues
- Other source code improvements, test cases etc.

Besides that I've "added" the support for:

- https
- basic authentication
(that was already in version 0.4 but got misplaced in 0.5, sorry about that :) ) ... read more

A new version has been released.

New features:

- works with java 1.5 (i.e. 1.4.+)
- works with Analysis Services 2005 (as well as AS 2000)
- works with Mondrian 2.0

Rex 0.4 is now available.
MDX Editor features a MDX Builder tool that enables creating MDX queries by simple drag'n'drop (see screenshot).