Easy Web Development With Wavemaker 6.5 - Brossura

Callahan, Ed

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1782161783 ISBN 13: 9781782161783

Casa editrice: Packt Pub Ltd, 2013

Riassunto

A practical, hands-on guide for amateur developers to design, develop, and deploy web and mobile applications using WaveMaker

Overview

• Develop and deploy custom, data-driven, and rich AJAX web and mobile applications with minimal coding using the drag-and-drop WaveMaker Studio
• Use the graphical WaveMaker Studio IDE to quickly assemble web applications and learn to understand the project’s artefacts
• Customize the generated application and enhance it further with custom services and classes using Java and JavaScript

In Detail

Developers of all levels can now easily develop custom, responsive, and rich web application clients with secure, scalable servers utilizing relational databases and RESTful services using WaveMaker Studio. Whether you need a departmental business application or a form application for your weekend club, this book will show you how to design, develop, and deploy professional grade web applications with WaveMaker.

Easy Web Development with WaveMaker will help you use WaveMaker to design, develop, and deploy rich, responsive web applications, even if you are not a programmer. If you need to build a data-driven web application, but you only know ‘enough to be dangerous,’ you need this book.

This book examines every angle of using WaveMaker to build applications, from dissecting examples to customizing, deploying, and debugging your own applications.

This book enables the non-professional programmer to become comfortable not only with using WaveMaker Studio itself, but also with the artefacts produced by the studio as well as the runtime and services provided by the WaveMaker framework. You will learn everything, from how customize the user experience with JavaScript and CSS to integrating with custom Java services and the Spring Framework server-side.

Easy Web Development with WaveMaker 6.5 is packed with examples, code samples, screenshots, and links to equip you to be successful with WaveMaker Studio.

What you will learn from this book

• Design better performing, more usable, and more scalable web applications that are easier to maintain using WaveMaker Studio
• Understand both the big picture and the file-by-file assembly of a WaveMaker application and the WaveMaker framework
• Rapidly generate forms, data models, and services from existing relational databases and web services
• Customize the generated application and add complex custom features using standard technologies including CSS, JavaScript, and Java
• Diagnose and debug problems in applications using the Chrome developer tools and the Eclipse debugger
• Secure applications by developing an understanding of how security is applied and leverage that understanding to be confident in the results
• Understand the deployment options and requirements for WaveMaker applications, from the desktop to the cloud
• Access and leverage the underlying Dojo Toolkit and Spring Framework to build custom solutions to enterprise problems

Approach

Written as a practical Packt tutorial, this essential reference will help you use WaveMaker to design, develop, and deploy rich, responsive web applications.

Su questo libro

L'autore

Edward Callahan

Edward Callahan is an accomplished open source software engineer and consultant living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently with Typesafe, Edward was the Scrum Master and a core contributor to the WaveMaker project in VMware's SpringSource division. He led the formation of the WaveMaker developer community and has written countless forum posts, examples, and wiki articles about its development. Prior to joining WaveMaker, he was a Senior Manager of technical support for Progress Software's Enterprise Infrastructure Division. He completed his education at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Northeastern University.

Contenuti

Preface
Chapter 1: Getting Started with WaveMaker
Chapter 2: Digging into the Architecture
Chapter 3: Using Studio
Chapter 4: Designing a Well Performing Application
Chapter 5: Navigating Towards Reusability
Chapter 6: Styling the Application
Chapter 7: Working with Databases
Chapter 8: Utilizing Web Services
Chapter 9: Custom Java Services
Chapter 10: Customizing the User Interface with JavaScript
Chapter 11: Mastering Client Customization
Chapter 12: Securing Applications
Chapter 13: Deploying Applications
Chapter 14: Mobile Deployment
Chapter 15: Debugging
Index

Preface

Up

Chapter 1: Getting Started with WaveMaker
Setting up your workspace
Getting the right version
Being browser smart
Installing locally using a release package
Building a Studio from GitHub
Setting up the examples
Importing the database
Introducing CRM Simple
Exploring the sample application
Summary

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Chapter 2: Digging into the Architecture
The big picture
Getting comfortable with the JavaScript client
Dojo Toolkit
Dojo made easy
Binding and Events
Loading the client
Springing into the server side
Starting from web.xml
Client and server communications
Types
Studio is also an application
Summary

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Chapter 3: Using Studio
Welcome to projects
Hello WaveyWeb
Adding services
Inserting components
The canvas
Working on the canvas
Source editors
The Script tab
The other source panels
The resource manager
The palette
The properties panel
The page and project properties
Binding dialog
Using revision control software
Summary

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Chapter 4: Designing a Well Performing Application
Begin with the end in mind
Leveraging layouts
Screen sizing strategies
Multiple versions of an application, or all-in-one?
One screen for all devices
A screen for each screen size
The hybrid approach
Going faster
Using page containers effectively
How many page containers
Reducing module loading
Optimizing use of data and service calls
Beware of autoUpdate
Controlling the result set size
Client-side querying of variable results
Live views and related data
Lazy loading
Related editors
Summary

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Chapter 5: Navigating Towards Reusability
Navigation, layers, and page containers
Simple notifications
Alert!
Toast
Confirmations
Warn and prompt dialogs
Dialogs
Generic dialog
Loading dialog
The designable and page dialogs
Published page properties
Accessing components of a page container page
History and back button
URL management
Summary

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Chapter 6: Styling the Application
CSS in WaveMaker
Tooled styling
Defining classes
Avoiding !important
Testing rules with dojo.query()
Themes
Subthemes
Managing themes
Importing and exporting themes
Importing CSS
Borrowing parts
Other styling tools
New in WM 6.6
Summary

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Chapter 7: Working with Databases
Generating the data model
Importing an existing database
Importing the sample database
Creating a new schema
Exporting a schema
Making project-only schema changes
Examining the service
Customizing database services
Re-import
Live data components
Form creation using database objects
Dissecting the live panel
Related data
Live views
Query by example
HQL
Mixing HQL and live data
Calling SQL and stored procedures from Java
Summary

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Chapter 8: Utilizing Web Services
Installing wsdl4j-bin.jar
Feed services
Binding the feed
SOAP
If service generation is not successful
REST
REST services returning XML
REST services returning JSON
The XHR proxy
Summary

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Chapter 9: Custom Java Services
Java or web service
Adding a custom service
Dissecting the template class
The classpath
JAR and class files
Java source files
Using an external editor
NetBeans
Eclipse/STS
Compiling external edits
RuntimeAccess
Access other service beans
Server-side validation
Dependency injection
Logging
Summary

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Chapter 10: Customizing the User Interface with JavaScript
Important warning for browser-executed code
Events
Asynchronous events
Event handlers
Binding expressions
Setting and getting values
JavaScript variables
wm.Variable
Simple types
EntryData
Complex types
Filters
Resources
The console
Trees
Completions
JS Reference
JavaScript toString()
Source code
Summary

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Chapter 11: Mastering Client Customization
Formatters
useLocalTime
Custom Function
DojoGrid
Display expressions
Custom columns
LiveForm
Validation
onBeforeServiceCall
Dynamic page content
Reflow
createComponent()
Custom components
Summary

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Chapter 12: Securing Applications
Security in WaveMaker
Configuring security
Security providers
Roles
Setup services
Widget RBAC
Multitenancy
The security service
Customizing the configuration
URL access
Page access control
Service operation access
Using code
Using XML
Securing runtime service
Disabling live saving
Troubleshooting
Summary

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Chapter 13: Deploying Applications
Deployment requirements
Preparing for deployment
The deployment dialog
WAR/EAR
Tomcat
JVM configuration
Mod_proxy
Cloud deployment
Cloud Foundry
Amazon EC2
Summary

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Chapter 14: Mobile Deployment
The mobile hybrid
Before you begin
Cordova API
PhoneGap build
Local build
Cloud build
Configuring the build
Uploading the ZIP
Customizing the ZIP file
Summary

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Chapter 15: Debugging
General troubleshooting
Logging output
Clearing the cache
Resetting WEB-INF
Restarting the server
Undeploy old applications
Watching the network
Client
Logging
Built-in debugger
Developer tools
Closure Compiler
Chrome Developer Tools for WebKit
Tools for other browsers
Mobile debugging
Weinre
At the console
No this keyword
Debugger
Useful tool features
Server
Logging
Starting with JPDA
Attaching with Eclipse
Summary

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Packt Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1782161783
• ISBN 13: 9781782161783
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 306