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Easy Web Development with WaveMaker
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Table of Contents
Easy Web Development with WaveMaker
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
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
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 communication
Types
Studio is also an application
Summary
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
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 the 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
11. Mastering Client Customization
Formatters
useLocalTime
Custom Function
DojoGrid
Display expressions
Custom columns
LiveForm
Validation
onBeforeServiceCall
Dynamic page content
Reflow
createComponent()
Custom components
Summary
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
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
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
15. Debugging
General troubleshooting
Logging output
Clearing the cache
Resetting WEB-INF
Restarting the server
Undeploying 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
Index
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