What's new?

From version 4.1.1 on IBM Industry Solutions Workbench, pipelines are based on workspaces and multiple tasks. That provides an easy possibility to define own custom pipeline types, see Pipeline Overview and Custom Pipelines.

From version 4.1.1 on IBM Industry Solutions Workbench supports a possibility in a TechPreview version to define an own custom pipeline template to be able to deploy service projects (Java SpringBoot Stack 2.0) to another cluster. Additionally, it is possible to deploy your service projects into an IBM Power Server (architecture ppc64le), see Custom Remote Deploy Pipeline and Deployment Pipeline for IBM Power Server (ppc64le).

From version 4.1.1 on IBM Industry Solutions Workbench allows the additional property types for Domain Services Long and Time Property Types.

From version 4.1.1 on IBM Industry Solutions Workbench allows to deploy the product documentation as part of the installation into the cluster. So the documentation will be available in an air-gapped environment, see Extended configuration.

From version 4.1.0 on, IBM Industry Solutions Workbench Java Spring Boot Stack 2.0 is available. This stack is based on Java 17 and Spring Boot 3 version.

Existing services based on Java Spring Boot Stack 1.0 (Java 11 and Spring Boot 2) can be upgraded. To do so, please follow the Upgrade instructions for domain services or the Upgrade instructions for generic services.

In Java Stack 2.0.0, the available capabilities in the project can be managed dynamically within the Solution Designer.​ ​ By enabling extensions, advanced modeling and code generation capabilities are unlocked. Additionally, this feature allows to reduce mandatory dependencies to external services to a minimum (e.g. Apache Kafka, database). The pom file is adjusted automatically for you.​

The extensions can be enabled and disabled at any time, providing you full flexibility during service development.​

Read more about Extensions.

From version 4.1.1 on, custom Java Persistence Annotations are available in Java Stack 2.0.0 with DB2 (RDBMS) enabled as database type in the Aggregate Persistence Support extension. This makes it possible to flexibly add custom annotations and costumize data persistence in your project to your needs.

Read more about Custom Java Persistence Annotations (JPA).

From version 4.1.1 on, IBM Industry Solutions Workbench offers the extension Saga Pattern Support for transactional use cases. It allows you to implement distributed transactions across multiple services by applying the Saga pattern. IBM Industry Solutions Workbench provides rich modelling and implementation support for such use cases, while establishing a secure connection to the lra-coordinator by default.

Read more about Saga Pattern Support.

With version 4.1.0, the integration of the generated toolkits for IBM Business Automation Workflow integration has improved. It is now easier to set configurations like the endpoint URL, SSL configurations, or request and response timouts when using the generated toolkit.

Please check the related section in API Namespaces for more details.

With the current version of IBM Industry Solutions Workbench, the Solution Designer and the CLI fully support branches of the projects. Now the user is able to create and/or checkout a remote branch from the repository, reset the local branch to the remote status or delete dedicated branches. Additionally, pipeline configurations can be created for a dedicated branch.

Read more about the new capabilities.