Today I received an email with a new beta release of VMware Project North Star. The new beta offers two new feaures.
Application Dependency Mapping allows you to links individual thinstalled application. A single JRE can for example be used in several thinstalled applications. That is good news!
An other new feature is Application Sync. The thinstalled application is configured to sync with a central source server to ensure the thinstalled application is still the same. This feature can be used for security purpose, but also for application update purpose.
During packaging I also mentioned an easy way to link an application to a specific security group in Active Directory. I would normally NOT use this feature to have security in the package itself, but it is still a nice feature for those, who want to link a application to Active Directory.
Besides the new features, the GUI has been changed to ease the packaging process. The new GUI also supports the new features.
So… a good step forward.
Tags: thinstall
