Appendix E. Introducing PDI 5 Features

While writing the second edition of this book, Version 5 was still under development. Most of the novelties in this new release are quite advanced or have to do with concepts that are out of the scope of this book, for example, Carte—a simple web server that allows you to execute transformations and jobs remotely.

There are, however, some features that may interest you. This appendix will quickly introduce you to those features.

Welcome page

PDI 5 comes with a new welcome page full of links to web resources, blogs, forums, books on PDI, and more. Following those links, you will be able to learn more and become active in the Pentaho community. Remember that this window is opened by default when you launch ...

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