When carefully selected and used, Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) may simplify complex code, promote effective communication with customers, improve productivity, and unclog development bottlenecks. In Domain-Specific Languages , noted software development expert Martin Fowler first provides the in...
Domain-Specific Modeling (DSM) is the latest approach to software development, promising to greatly increase the speed and ease of software creation. Early adopters of DSM have been enjoying productivity increases of 500–1000% in production for over a decade. This book introduces DSM and offers exam...
Using an Enterprise Project aims to divide a project of great size in sub-projects to give an opportunity to organize work in a team with different access modes, managed by the repository. Also you can reduce the amount of memory occupied by the tool during editing. The Enterprise project allows a m...
It is possible to integrate manually written JSP pages inside WebRatio applications.
The procedure is short and composed of four phases.
This guide shows the steps required to integrate a JSP in a WebRatio application.
A search engine uses a set of well known rules to decide the visibility of a website. One of these rules is to have simple URLs containing the keywords the page should be indexed with. WebRatio 6 introduces a new feature named URL Fragments. This feature allows to increase the search engine ranking ...
WebRatio support all the databases that are supported by Hibernate. Nevertheless, the list of the database types that you have at disposal when creating a new database connection does not contain the full list, but it proposes the most used. Therefore WebRatio gives you the chance to integrate a new...
Implementing a custom component sometimes means querying the database in the component service class. This article wants to give you an introduction on how to retrieve the hibernate session in the component service and how to use Hibernate efficiently to query the database.
In WebRatio it's possible to generate PDF, Excel or RTF reports. This article discusses a particular usage of the WebRatio generated reports. The goal is to create a report in order to use it as attachment for a newsletter (or to store it in the database). Suppose you want to send an email to all th...
It’s a very common practice to display the number of active users of a web application.
WebRatio gives you the possibility to easily get the number of users which are currently navigating your Web application and add this feature to your Web application.
The solution proposed in this article ...
A job is a sequence of operations that has to be executed asynchronously by the application. It's possible to schedule a job at a specific time or interval, which means that jobs can be automatically triggered (scheduled when the application starts). It's also possible to schedule a job at runtime: ...
Let's suppose that you want to deploy your project directly on the remote host that will contain the Web Application. You have to configure the Deploy Configuration that allows you to obtain the final Web Application package in order to be able also to upload the package on the remote host. This art...
The WebRatio pageContext is a particular data structure which is created everytime the user performs a request in a WebRatio generated Web application. It's a map that contains information used in the computation of all the Units contained in the requested destination page and it is stored in the JS...
It is possible to execute the business logic contained in an Action Definition directly from a Script Utility Component.
To execute an Action Definition in a Script, you must use an instance of the RTXOperationUnitService, which is the Java service that describes the behavior of a generic Action De...
People have a habit of using the same password over and over, and so hashing the password in the database it is a best practice that you should use to protect this information from attacks. In fact, if the database of your Web application is accidentally compromised, your organization will not be th...
Tomcat Application Server is able to manage by default all the ISO-8859-1 characters to encode URIs.
If your Application uses characters that does not belong to this character set, you have to configure the Application Server or your Application in order to correctly manage them.
If not config...