MindTouch Announces MindTouch 2009

MindTouch announced the release of MindTouch 2009, their developer platform for building rich collaborative applications and communities. With the addition of an extensible messaging bus, MindTouch 2009 automatically pushes notifications to users of commonly requested system events and page or hierarchy changes. Also, the messaging bus can serve as a switchboard for outside systems, applications and services, making it easier for MindTouch to connect disconnected systems and teams. For example, content change notifications can be automatically pushed out from the MindTouch platform to a variety of places, selected by the user, such as email, mobile devices, or even Twitter and WordPress blogs. Users can now choose to receive an email that notifies them when a specific page changes, or when certain files are revised, or when new users are added to the system. In addition to the new messaging bus, MindTouch adds an auto-suggest feature that displays existing tags and also offers instant page associations without search indexing delays. MindTouch 2009 enables developers to build rich Internet applications (RIA) by taking advantage of an extended Javascript library built on JQuery and Tibco's Pagebus and named JEM (JavaScript with Events and Messaging) technology and major improvements to the MindTouch integrated scripting language DekiScript. MindTouch DekiScript enhancements include: support for XML literals; support for better URI string manipulation; support for generated sequences of values; and, support for dynamic list and map construction to create dynamic lists, e.g., customer orders above a certain amount, sales by region, etc. MindTouch offers a free open source software core and offers additional services and tools tailored for enterprise productivity enhancement, starting at $2,000. http://mindtouch.com