"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 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...
Validation is used to check that the data inserted by the user via the application’s user interface complies with the requirements of the application domain.
Validating the data, for example data that is inserted into a form (or in any other View Component or View Component Part with input capabili...
In many applications, such as corporate intranets or CRM, the user may need to access the archive of all registered people, and that archive may be very large. One way to support this requirement is by offering a search form, which however assumes that the user knows at least some information abou...
WebRatio introduced the chance to use Visibility Conditions in a Web Project. This feature allows you to disable or show elements in the generated Web application if the conditions specified for those elements are verified.
It is now possible to integrate the horizontal profiling of the Web appli...
Web applications are usually structured according to the MVC Pattern. The MVC Pattern logically splits the application in three tiers: Model, View and Controller.
WebRatio brings the MVC pattern to its full power, both as design and architectural pattern, by splitting the application in three diffe...
In a Web Application, we often need to grant different groups of users access to different resources. For example, in a Web Application used for Enterprise Resource Planning, the head of Human Resources will have access to all the employees’ sensitive data (such as person details, salary, etc.), whi...
"A rich text editor is an interface for editing rich text within web browsers, which presents the user a ‘what you see is what you get‘ editing area." (Source: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_rich-text_editor)
A rich text editor can be useful when you want the user to be able to write...
Most Web applications have protected sections that only registered user can access. Users must remember the credentials provided for each site to which they subscribe.
When users are no longer able to authenticate themselves because they have lost or forgotten their passwords, it is necessary to pr...
The purpose of this article is to provide the basics to operate with styles in WebRatio. A Style Project contains the layout templates needed to generate the graphical elements of your Web Application; the project includes also the resources used in the templates.
This article explains how to model step by step the Vacation Request business process available on the WebRatio add-on. The Vacation Request process focuses in controlling the requests of vacations of the organization, from the initial request up to its approval or rejection.
In a Web application, feedback messages are used to notify the user about the result of a business logic execution.
Feedback messages vary depending on message types, which can be: success, information, warning, or error.
An important aspect of a Web Application is the visual identity it has.
The Visual Identity represents all the graphic widgets that you may want to use in order to make the Web Application good looking and in order to have a great user experience.
Since it's possible to specify a personalized ...
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...
The Parameter Collector Operation permits one to collect a set of parameters from multiple sources and to redistribute them to multiple targets. In this way, the operation reduces the model complexity by deleting some data flows, improving its reading and creating a neater model.
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.
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...
“Single sign-on (SSO) is a property of access control of multiple related, but independent, software systems. With this property a user logs in once and gains access to all systems without being prompted to log in again at each of them.” (source Wikipedia).
WebRatio allows you to enable the single ...
WebRatio Platform lets you define graphic containers for content shown to the user. These containers can be reused for many projects and applied to different type of content. This is possible thanks to the ability to create a dedicated resource containing the graphic container code. This resource is...
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...
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.
The Layout View lets you organize view components in the page using the 960 Grid System. The 960 Grid System (http://960.gs) is very popular CSS framework for defining page layout and is known for its ease and flexibility. The framework is a set of style sheets with CSS rules. It provides two grids:...
The Jump Operation permits to jump forward and backward within the application without modeling an explicit navigation flow. A forward jump redirects the user to the specified Parameter Collector Operation. A backward jump redirects the user to the last visited Jump Operation and follows that operat...
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...
This kick start guides you through the modeling of a Web application using WebRatio Platform 9. The Web application you will model, will help you manage your daily tasks and your business contacts.
The Connect Operation is an operation used to enable the association between instances of two entities (the source entity and the target entity), connected by a specific relationship role.
This article guides you to the usage of the Connect showing also a working example.
WebRatio Platform gives you the chance to add a Captcha control to the forms of your Web Project.
Read this article to know more about the Captcha control.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
To get the Web Application from your Web Project, you have to generate it. When a project is generated, the Application Server loads the corresponding Web Application. WebRatio uses Apache Tomcat as the default Application Server Apache.
Tomcat implements the JavaServer Pages (JSP) and Sun Microsys...
Popups are a commonly used rich interaction. By using a popup you can open a new layer above the current main page. If the popup is set as “Modal”, it also prevents any interaction with the rest of the web application. When the popup window is closed, the underlying main page becomes active again, a...
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...
The Domain Model Utility Component is available starting from the WebRatio 5.1 version.
It's a hybrid unit, which means that it can be placed in every View (Site View, Module Definitions View, Service View).
It permits to retrieve information about entities and relationship of the Domain Model....
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.
In Apache Tomcat, the Manager element represents the session manager that will be used to create and maintain HTTP sessions as requested by the associated Web Application.
Read this article to know how to disable the Persistent Session Management in any Tomcat installation.
Sometimes may happens that a user has to access to a content and depending on some parameters or actions that content has to change. By the alternative pages,it's possible to decide which content has to be shown depending on one or more conditions defined at run time.
Alternative element is usefu...
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.
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.
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...
Walking through the creation of a very simple application is the most natural way of getting started with a new tool. WebRatio Platform is no exception: with its large offer of options and features, the newbie may not be immediately able to find his/her way through the required steps to accomplish t...
WebRatio provides some properties that define the information regarding the runtime of your web application. RTXConfig.properties file is the properties file where you can configure your preferences. The RTXConfig.properties file contains information that control your work directory where the applic...
Rich forms are forms in which the user interaction triggers an event and the execution of a specific business logic. The aim is facilitate the form compilation and improve the user’s experience in the web Application. Many events can be managed to enrich the user’s interaction with a form, and some ...
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.
Create your first Hello World Mobile Application with our 3mins tutorial.
Follow this beginner guide to find your right way in getting started through the wide offer of options and features.
Autocompletion allows you to specify an information source to be used as a suggestion for the fill-in of a text field. In this way, the user can type only the initial letters of the word or of the value to be inserted in the field. The Web application shows different options from which the user can ...
Reloading an entire page can be expensive in terms of computational costs: it means recomputing all the components contained on a page and the queries included in them. This operation can take some time and have a significant impact on performance. For this reason, a partial refresh of the page can ...