NEW: Added stored procedures for duplicate removal. Two new public stored procedures have been added to the database that identify and remove duplicate information from either a single topic map or from all topic maps in the database. Refer to the section called “Duplicate Removal Procedures” for more details.

NEW: A new API has been made available for performing fast transactional updates to a topic map. This new API allows developers to create and delete objects as well as modify existing objects. Because the API is implemented as direct database updates, a series of topic map updates written using the API is typically many times faster than the equivalent series of updates written using TMAPI. Refer to Chapter 10, Fast Topic Map Updates with the TransactionalPersistenceManager for more details.

UPDATED: The NPCL Forms Schema has been extended to return additional information useful in creating topic map editing interfaces. In particular the schema provides information about the database OIDs of the difference topic, association, role and occurrence types; the schema provides additional information about the cardinality constraints of each topic; and the forms schema now also properly reports all the role player types allowed in a role when the role player constraint omits the optional association type.

The updated schema is described in detail in the Web Services Guide document.