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What's new in ER5


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Overview

This topic briefly summarises the new features introduced in ER5. Full details of the changes are given in a series of EPOC Technical Papers available from the Symbian website at http://www.symbian.com.

The description of the changes is split into the following functional areas:

Application engines

application components with no user interface, used for manipulating the applications’ data models

Base

core operating system and Emulator

Communications

Internet, serial, infra-red, and other communications protocols

EIKON and graphics

graphical user interface, system shell, and graphics

Engine Support

components without any user interface, that are used by application engines

Messaging

architecture to support email, fax, SMS, and other message types

Web

Web browsing architecture


Application engines

The Agenda model has changed to allow concurrent access to an Agenda document by more than one client: see Agenda Server Reference.


Base

Base changes offer the following new features:


Comms


EIKON and graphics


Engine support


Messaging

ER5 introduces a new extensible messaging architecture, described in Messaging Architecture. Applications can have immediate access to message-sending facilities through the Send As interface.


Web

The ER5 Web application has a new extensible architecture. Details of its API will be available in future documentation.

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