Whats in the pipeline for PAT?

So with PAT 0.3 out of the way it gives us an ideal opportunity to reflect on what we've done and where we are heading.

So this release saw tabbed multiplee queries and a new table. All good steps forward but nothing amazing in their own right, just things that needed to be done to take us further in the right direction.

Whats coming up next then?

The table model. Quite frankly it sucks ass, mostly due to my hacking to crowbar it into place for what we have already. Luckily for us(oh you have no idea) though we have George the Greek from GWT-mosaic on our side, and he's doing us a client side lazy loading table, this is great because it will allow the user to theoretically buffer up 1000's of rows but only show whats in the browser window, with all the others being loaded and unloaded from the DOM. Good work Greek, like I pointed out to him, they will write stories about him, like they did Ancient Greece.

This will also mean when you run a large query the javascript execution warning will be banished *\o/*

Connection Manager. Pauls done some cracking work already on the Connection Manager, this will finally allow us to stop adding a new connection each time we log in, thank god.

MDX Code Support. Due to the fact we aren't god and can't foresee every requirement at some point we will need MDX support, so 0.4 will include basic support for MDX. There will be 2 modes, Query model(whats already in place), or MDX Query, the latter disabling all the query model stuff. Sadly there is no easy way of dismantling the query model for an mdx query, so and the moment its either/or I'm afraid.

BI Server Plugin, hopefully by the time 0.4/0.5 is ready CITRUS will be released, so we will get the BI Server plugin working properly so you can slot PAT easily into your existing BI Server setup.

Other Fun stuff, I'm sure there will be other stuff, when we get bored and decide to tinker.

The big one I'm looking forward to is when Julian gets Mondrian Writeback moved into Olap4J(come on Julian, you can do it) and then people will be able to adjust the data in the mondrian cells and watch the totals crank.

Anyway thats the plan, if you fancy helping feel free to jump on the mailing list and introduce yourselves.

TTFN

Tom