Easy Web Development with Wavemaker电子书

Easy Web Development with WaveMaker

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