New features delivered in 24.12

The following features and enhancements were included as part of 24.12.

Support for multiple CRM tenants

Data Bridge can now integrate with multiple NexJ CRM environments (tenants) for exporting data (DATABRIDGE-1781). All tenants need to have an identical version of the NexJ CRM model deployed. Both the snapshot export and streaming updates modes are supported.

The new Tenant Explorer workspace displays the list of tenants and their connection status (DATABRIDGE-1834). Select the tenant name to see additional details about the tenant (DATABRIDGE-1798).

The new Tenants tab has been added to the Create View dialog and Edit View workspace. It allows you to select which tenants should be monitored for data updates and queried during exports (DATABRIDGE-1830).

In NexJ CRM, you can use the Data Bridge Adaptor administrative UI to manually add or remove a tenant from the Data Bridge configuration (DATABRIDGE-1788). Automatic registration of tenants with Data Bridge is also supported.

“Tombstone” messages for Kafka topics

It is now possible to use “tombstone” messages to signify “delete” events on a Kafka topic (DATABRIDGE-1802). A “tombstone” is a message with a key and a null payload, and is a standard mechanism in Kafka to process a deleted record. Depending on the configuration of the Kafka topic, it may cause prior messages with the same key to be removed after a period of time.

You can specify whether deleted records should be published as “tombstones” when defining Kafka publishing targets. The use of “deleted” field is still supported as an alternative option.