Plex Beta 6.1

En un mejor ciclo de desarrollo que en releases anteriores, la versión 6.1 de Plex está en Beta, por un mes más, aproximadamente. En estos días estoy ocupado probando. Para cualquier interesado ajeno a Plex, lo más interesante en el 6.1, es el desarrollo de aplicaciones para SOA. Del documento de sumario del release:

Model-Based Service Development
This feature strengthens CA Plex support for SOA development by providing model-based service development capabilities directly in the product. Services are represented as objects within the Plex model, using the component modeling approach already established for COM and EJB objects.
WCF service generation is supported with this release and a plug-in architecture enables developers to create their own service generators.
WCF Service Generation
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a new communication
subsystem within the Microsoft .NET Framework that unifies several different communication technologies such as web services, .NET remoting, message queuing, and so on.
The WCF service generation in CA Plex r6.1 enables you to present business logic as services based on WCF. This can include business logic developed in the Plex model and logic from third-party applications.
Service Wrappers and Cross-Platform Interoperability
The new WCF service generation is designed to support the convenient wrappering of existing applications as services. This includes Java, i5/OS, and .NET programs. Generally, this means that the target of a FNC implemented by FNC triple can be a Java or RPG function. In the case of RPG, the target function can correspond to an i5/OS program developed outside CA Plex, such
as i5/OS programs or programs developed with CA 2E.

Hay otras mejoras, en Java, en Iseries, en el manejo del modelo. Pero esto es particularmente interesante.