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:...

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.

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...

In WebRatio it's possible to create URLs dinamically using a Script Utility Component. Learn how to do it reading this article.

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...

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...

Working with templates allows you to make customization with number patterns. Suppose that you do not want to use the separator symbols for numbers according to the current locale, but you want to use custom character (unusual for separators). You just have to create a custom attribute template that...

In the Domain Model you can define BLOB attributes to store files. This type of attribute is objectified using an instance of a particular object implementing the RTXBLOBData Interface. This type of object gives access to some properties such as the name, lenght and extension of the wrapped BLOB....

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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. ...

How to optimize the app performancesWhen deploying an application is important to apply all known best practice to get the best performance possible. WebRatio Platform simplifies this task generating a release artifact that is optimized for production. However there are some best practice related to...

When designing Web Projects, often the use of static values are required, such as values of conditions, passing of static values in Links Coupling, values in configuration Properties of the Units, etc. The problem of the usage of static values is that they may vary according to the environment in wh...

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 BAM (Business Activity Monitor) is a software whose purpose is to aggregate, analyse, and present information about the run-time behaviour of a Business Processes based applications. The BAM in WebRatio is an application that connects to an application database through a scheduled automatic oper...