What's New in Joget DX 9

Welcome to the exciting new features and advancements in Joget DX 9, the next-generation no-code/low-code application platform. In this release, we’ve focused on enhancing key areas, including Joget Intelligence, User Experience, Performance, Integration, and Security. With a host of new tools and capabilities, Joget DX 9 will empower businesses to develop, scale, and secure their applications more efficiently than ever.

But first, let's explore the core innovations and how Joget DX 9 is poised to transform the landscape of enterprise application development.

Joget Intelligence

Joget Intelligence brings artificial intelligence (AI) to the forefront, aiming to enhance both human and artificial intelligence for a seamless application development experience. This new capability enables users to create and edit applications effortlessly using natural language and images.

Key Components of Joget Intelligence:

• Joget AI Designer – An AI chatbot that lets users create applications with text and images. It helps generate process designs, form designs, and makes real-time changes based on user input.
• Joget AI Agent Builder – Autonomous AI agents that can be orchestrated within workflows to automate tasks and interact with applications.
• Joget AI Bundle – A collection of AI tools and plugins, including TensorFlow, to accelerate AI adoption in enterprise applications.
• Joget AI Assistant – A smart assistant that provides contextual help, recommendations, and analytics, available within the Joget platform. (COMING SOON)

Platform & Architecture Upgrades

• Jakarta EE, Spring 6, Hibernate 6 Migration – Modernized backend stack for improved performance, compatibility, and long-term support.
• Event Streaming and Scaling – Apache Kafka Integration and Apache Ignite Integration.

User Experience

A seamless user experience is crucial for the success of a no-code/low-code platform, and Joget DX 9 delivers several key UX improvements to maximize productivity for all user types.

Key Enhancements in User Experience:

• UI Theme Builder – A visual tool that allows users to customize application themes without any coding, ensuring a consistent and aesthetically pleasing design.
• New App Center – A redesigned App Center for easy discovery and access to applications.
• Enhanced Process Builder – A more intuitive drag-and-drop interface for process automation with features like grids, snaplines, mini maps, and auto-layout for easy flowchart creation. See Process Builder to explore the new features.
• Font Awesome Icons for Form Fields – Enhanced visual clarity and iconography.
• Custom Login Page Support – Allows tailored authentication interfaces
• Brand new theme – The DX 9 Builder Theme is a bold new theme that enables flexible branding and styling.
• Theme Color Schemes – Default themes with the Color Scheme option now have the Customize Color section empty. You can override a color scheme component manually by editing these empty values. These are the affected themes:
  • DX 8 Angle Theme
  • DX 8 Color Admin Theme
  • DX 8 Plain Theme
• Enhanced Message Notification Experience – We’ve redesigned how system messages appear in all Visual Builders to make them clear, concise, and right where you expect them. You’ll now see:
  • Error toasts on all builders disappear upon user control (via the X button) instead of automatically disappearing after 5~ seconds.
  • A maximum of five messages at once to keep things tidy, and error toasts do not auto-hide.
    
  • New messages are displayed at the top for instant visibility.
  • Toasts that adapt to your panel width for seamless alignment.
  • A refined scrollbar for smoother navigation.
    

Performance and Scalability

Joget DX 9 takes performance to the next level with scalability features that support enterprise applications. It’s built to handle large-scale deployments, as demonstrated by a telecommunications company that deployed applications across hundreds of Kubernetes pods.

Key Enhancements in Performance and Scalability:

• In-Memory Grid Integration – Improves performance by leveraging in-memory computing for faster data processing.
• Asynchronous Request Processing – Enhances responsiveness by processing long-running requests in the background, reducing latency.
• Pluggable Process Engine – Enterprises can customize their workflow engine to suit specific performance needs.
• SQL Query caching – Added the JdbcUtil to create a datasource and cache the datasource. Changes all JDBC-related plugins to use the JdbcUtil method. Added a field for custom JDBC properties. Here are the affected plugins:
  
  • Database Update Tool
  • Database Query List Binder
  • Database Query Form Load Binder
  • Database Query Form Options Binder
  • Database Query Form Store Binder
  • Database Query List Action
  • Database Wizard List Binder
  • Database Wizard Form Load Binder
  • Database Wizard Form Options Binder
  • Database Wizard Form Store Binder
  • Jasper Report
  • SQL Chart

Integration and Extensibility

Seamless integration with both modern and legacy systems is critical for digital transformation, and Joget DX 9 enhances interoperability with new integration features.

New Integration Features:

• Seamless Marketplace Integration – Directly integrates with the Joget Marketplace for easy plugin discovery and installation.
• API Connector Builder – A no-code/low-code tool for simplifying API integrations with third-party services.

Security and Governance

Security and governance are central to enterprise application development. Joget DX 9 introduces several robust enhancements to ensure secure and compliant applications.

Key Security and Governance Enhancements:

• New Identity Provider (IDP) Support & Revamped MFA – Multi-IDP support and enhanced Multi-Factor Authentication for secure user access.
• Directory Manager Logout Hook – Enables custom logic execution on user logout events. See OpenID Connect Identity Provider Plugin.
• Passkeys Support – Eliminates password-related vulnerabilities by supporting passkeys for a simpler and more secure login process.
• App Creator Role – New administrative roles for fine-grained access control. 
• Governance Center – A centralized portal to manage governance and compliance policies across citizen development initiatives.
• LDAP Connection Pooling – LDAP Directory Manager and Sync LDAP User Directory Manager now have options to configure connection pooling to improve the performance and reliability of directory service connections.

General New Features

• Performance Enhancements – Enhanced performance management features for enterprise scalability and integration.
• New Admin Bar Design – A revamped admin bar with a movable quick navigation bar and toast message notifications for better user feedback.
• Support for Light/Dark Theme – Users can switch between light and dark themes for the admin interface based on personal preference or device settings.
• Grid Fields Enhancement –  Grid fields throughout Joget can now be configured in CSV format by clicking the Switch to CSV button . The CSV values will automatically fill in the Column fields after clicking Update.
• Handsontable Spreadsheet – Sum Row Support now adds the ability to include a summary row for quick aggregation
• Signature Pad Upgrade – Replaced legacy pad with a more responsive and modern library.
  
• Property Editor – Code Editor Enhancements for improved syntax support and usability for code editing. See Code Editor User Guide.
• Translation Management – Enables exporting directly within the Manage Translation page.
  
• App Resources Enhancements – Updated App Resources to allow multiple uploads, rename resources, show thumbnails, and see resource usage.

Design App

• Grid & Snapline Enhancements – Enhanced drag-and-drop functionality with improved node alignment, helping users create well-structured process diagrams.
• Revamped Admin Console – A more refined UI for managing developer and admin tasks, with a clearer search bar and settings page.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue in the Joget Enterprise Support App where the "System Error" error message is returned when rendering datalists and datalists do not load in the UI.

Versions

• Updated to aspectjweaver 1.9.22
• Updated to glowroot 0.14.2
• Updated to Jakarta EE
• Updated to Spring 6
• Updated to Hibernate 6
• Updated TinyMCE to 7.0.1
• Updated to apache-tomcat-8.5.41
• Updated to JRE 11.0.2
• Updated to Font Awesome Free 5.8.1
• Updated to mariadb-java-client-2.5.0.jar
• Updated to jquery-3.4.1.min.js