Showing more than one component as a single one is a very common need that may occur while creating the style of a WebRatio Web application.
The first option to achieve this is to use the customization available from the Layout View of the specific page, which offers a wide set of criteria to pla...
The WebRatio variables allow to configure the folder in which the Web Application of a Web Project will be generated when one of the following commands is used: Generate Full Web Project, Generate Selection, Generate Logic Descriptor Only, Generate Layout Pages Only. This articles describe which are...
WebRatio allows the user to define Context Parameters and to add Variables, these model elements are used to accomplish different tasks.
Context Parameters are strictly related to session storage, as they save information in the sessionContext and make their content available for all the JSP sessio...
In WebRatio Platform, the state of a component is represented by the Component State Object, a particular data structure that represents the internal state of particular component. This means that each type of component has its particular Component State Object. In its implementation, a Component St...
Content is the most important part of a Web application, and it should be presented in an engaging and professional way to provide the best user experience. Designing, which is the way a specific piece of information must be rendered for the user, is a web designer’s main task when creating a Web ap...
IFML, the modeling language of WebRatio Platform, is built on very few, highly composable concepts, which can be used to assemble complex Web applications for publishing or updating content. The key aspect of IFML is the capability of defining a Web Model consisting of pages, view components, and op...
Thanks to the WebRatio integration in the Eclipse environment, it's possible to easily debug a Web application without leaving the tool.
Usually, debugging a WebRatio generated web application means testing the custom units that have been developed for your specific Web project. The Eclipse Debug...
Validation is used to verify that the data inserted into a form by the user complies with the application domain’s requirements. WebRatio Platform includes several predefined types of Validation Rules that cover the most common validation cases. But sometimes, depending on the scope of the Web appli...
The deploy functionality is related to the process of installing your Web Application
on a local/remote machine, or even in the cloud. Deployment is configured in
WebRatio through the Deploy Configurations dialog which allows you to specify all
the deploy settings (e.g. the application to dep...
The Mail Operation permits users to send personalized emails to each destination address. The email body can be dynamically computed, replacing placeholders in the defined templates with the real content. The email body can also contains images.
This article explains how you can use images static a...
The use of static values is often required when designing an application. Static values may depend on the application’s deployment environment. You can set these static values in a dedicated *.properties file, which is loaded at the application startup. This file contains a list of key-value pairs. ...
This article explains step by step how to create the business process model of the "Vacation Request" process. You will see a brief explanation about the process proposed and then the procedure to create the process model in WebRatio using the BPM perspective.
This article explains step by step how to create the business process model of the "Travel Order" process. You will see a brief explanation about the process proposed and then the procedure to create the process model in WebRatio using the BPM perspective.
This article explains step by step how to create the business process model of the "Computer Repair" process. You will see a brief explanation about the process proposed and then the procedure to create the process model in WebRatio using the BPM perspective.
WebRatio lets you model your own business processes and obtain a prototype of the resulting Web application. But what about creating a professional Web application implementing your processes? You can start from the proposed prototype and evolve it until you obtain the final solution. What you need ...
The purpose of this technical document is to provide instruction on installing, configuring and using the WebRatio License Server. The WebRatio License Server manages the distribution of WebRatio licenses in use and checks the limit on the maximum number of concurrent users. A user can work only if...
This specification defines the Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML). The objective of IFML is to provide system architects, software engineers, and software developers with tools for the definition of Interaction Flow Models that describe the principal dimensions of an application front-end: th...
"Interaction Flow Modeling Language" describes how to apply model-driven techniques to the problem of designing the front end of software applications, i.e., the user interaction. The book introduces the reader to the novel OMG standard Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML). Authors Marco Brambi...
This is the case study used during the WebRatio Platform Modeler Classroom Training Course. You need to download this file in order to have the set of requirements used during the training course as reference. You can also try do model this case study by yourself in order to test your knowledge in W...
Subversion is a free, open-source revision control system (RCS). Subversion manages files and directories over time. These files and directories are placed into a central storage called a repository. The repository is quite similar to an ordinary file server, except that it remembers every chang...
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
You can integrate GIT in WebRatio Platform using the EGIT project. EGit is an Eclipse Team provider for the Git version control system. Git i...
This document contains the full list of major changes contained in WebRatio 7.2. The WebRatio Platform 7.2 Release includes the new updates relative to the last release 7.2.20. This is a Security Release. We recommend upgrading to 7.2.20 to ensure the security of your web applications and data. Thi...
WebRatio 7.2 introduces the first steps for IFML compliance. IFML is the new OMG standard language for modeling the application front-end. IFML is available as beta version and results from two years of work involving the OMG and WebRatio. The starting point of this work was the standardization of ...
WebRatio Mobile lets you build Android apps that you can test on your mobile or submit to the Google Play Store. This article guides you through the build process, showing how to create a debug build and run and test the Application on your device.
WebRatio Mobile lets you build Android apps that you can test on your mobile or submit to the Google Play Store. This article guides you through the build process, showing how to create a release build, prepare and submit the Application on the Google Play Store.
WebRatio Mobile lets you build iOS apps that you can use for test on your mobile or for submission on the Apple Store. This article guide you through the build process showing both the debug and release mode and gives you the information required to publish an iOS app.
WebRatio Mobile lets you build iOS apps that you can use for test on your mobile or for submission on the Apple Store. This article guide you through the build process, showing how to create a release build, prepare and submit the Application on the Apple Store.
This article is a step by step tutorial to guide you in the management of Signing Identities and Certificates.
You need to read, understand and accomplish each step reported to be able to build iOS application in debug and release mode.
Each application has a couple of log files to which it write log messages to monitor the health of the running application. This guide helps you understanding and configuring these files.
This article can help you on BPM basic features using WebRatio Platform, or refresh your memory on how to use it.
You will also find a quick reference for the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), the standard adopted for business process modeling using a graphical notation based on a flowch...