Solutions Monkey: Ax 4.0 Platform - a big leap forward...

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Источник: http://blogs.msdn.com/solutions/arch...p-forward.aspx
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It’s been more than a year now since AX 4.0 was released. The reception so far has been fantastic. Recently I came across a document listing some of the framework improvements that we did in Ax 4.0. This is not a comprehensive list and does not include the app enhancements. There are documents available in partner source/ customer source which lists all the AX 4.0 enhancements. I thought I can share this list in my blog as a quick ref to Ax 4.0 platform improvements.
Client
·Improved UI -- Outlook 11 look and feel - Familiar MS Office style UI and consistency with other MBS apps; reduce window clutter and better navigation
oEasier Navigation with Navigation Pane
oImprove content management
and organization with Favorites and Task Pane
oReduce Window Clutter with Collapsible Navigation Pane and workspace
oBetter personalization
oFamiliar Office 11 style user interface
oTheme Support ( XP and Vista)
oGlobal Search
·Revamped Help System : obj: closer alignment with other MS products
oBased on chm files using standard help authoring tools & Help can now be dynamically updated post launch

EP
·Familiar SharePoint look and feel
·Built on Windows SharePoint Services / MOSS 2007
·Stateless Programming model for Scale Out scenarios
·Enhanced Authoring Experience
·Integrated collaboration services
·Web framework opened up to existing portals enabling easier integration
·Common Search
·Easier Customization / Personalization

·Why we did it
1.Aligned with Microsoft Portal strategy by building the portal based on SharePoint.
2.The technology stack moved from IIS 5.0/ ASP(script based) /BC COM to IIS 6.0/ASP.net/BC.net for better performance , reliability and scalability
3.Page Authoring and Customization using browser and FrontPage.
4.Leveraging SharePoint core capabilities such as content , collaboration , personalization and search inside Enterprise Portal

Reporting & BI
·Reporting Services integration in 4.0
·Out of the box support for Report Builder with perspectives
·End user ad-hoc reporting with Report Builder
·Support for SQL 2005 Analysis Server
·Why we did it
oTighter integration with MS Stack
oSupport end user ad-hoc reporting

Security
·Active Directory Integration (Single Sign On)
·Removed support for 2 Tier (3 Tier Only) – All access to DB through AOS
·Code Access Security for X++
·Encryption in Enterprise Portal
·Table Permission Framework
·Comprehensive SWI review and penetration testing done by 3rd party vendor
·New Batch Framework
·Restricted Write Access to AOT to developers & admins
·Improved Server API security (dangerous APIs)
·Why we did it?
1.To secure access to business critical information in AX , moved away from custom authentication to integrated windows authentication for the client , portal and BC.
2.Code Access Security for X++ classes to secure APIs and prevent unauthorized , unintended privilege to calling code
3.URL encryption in Enterprise Portal to prevent URL manipulation


Server
·Data Access
oOptimistic Concurrency Control(OCC)
§Finer grained locking
oRecID increased to 64 bit and per table
oImproved Indexing
oCursor Optimization
oWhy we did it?
§Support for larger amounts of Tx Data
§Improved Performance
·Core Server
oMoved from proprietary transport protocol to RPC
oAOS moved to a Windows Service
oNLB based load balancing (in 4.0. We added our own load balancing in SP1 so now we don’t recommend NLB any longer)
oNew Logging model
oSession info moved to database
oWhy we did?
§Robustness
§Aligned better with MS Server technologies
§Improved Perf
·Better administration – single form for managing /viewing all server/user sessions

Programmability
·AIF
oXML based, customizable document exchange
oConfigurable platform for ready-to-use services
oWizard for generation of custom services
oA2A and B2B integration through MSMQ, web services and BizTalk Server
oExtensible X++ framework

·.NET BC
·CLR Interop
·Why we did it?
oBetter Application Integration
oTighter Integration with .NET

Setup
·One click install
·Role based install

Alerts
·End users can create alert rules in Ax and receive notification through email or in Ax Client or Enterprise Portal

• Admin can Create, modify, and delete alert rules for individual Microsoft Dynamics AX users
• Admin Create alert rule templates to be used by End users
• Customizable email notification by defining HTML or Extensible Style Language (XSL) template that merges alert data into an e-mail message at runtime

Others
·Unicode enabled the application
·Many bugs fixed for high CPE





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Источник: http://blogs.msdn.com/solutions/arch...p-forward.aspx