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For those of you who hadn't yet seen it, Backbase released version 3.1 of its Community Edition. This version features a heap of bugfixes, hugely improved documentation and references and some new and improved features:

• XSL transformations: The transformation engine in BPC 3.1 is much better than the previous one. It's basis is the improved client-side XPath engine, that now supports XPath 2.0 expressions.
• Variables: Interaction-defining code can be much shorter, with less repetition by the introduction of variables. These variables can be scoped (local, global and tag-scope) and can contain node-lists (results of XPath queries). Storing the result complex XPath queries in a variable can drastically improve the speed of event-handling. Files can now also be loaded directly into a variable.
• Focus model/keyboard navigation: 3.1 Features a new and elegant solution to the problem of keyboard navigation in webapplications. Every element on the screen can now receive focus and handle its own keyboard events, if so defined.
• <s:script/>: this release introduces a blindingly fast script evaluator that can be defined locally inside an event handler. Inside a <s:script/> tag, the script has full access to all variables (in scope).
• Lots and lots of new examples and UI controls .

I really encourage everyone to download it and try it out. Using the new documentation and examples getting started should be easier than ever! Besides that, me and my colleages are really trying to support developers the best we can through the forum.