If you are working on a back-end project, once you defined your data structure in the Domain Model, you need to connect it with a persistent database.
Using the Domain Model synchronization process, you can transpose the Domain Model elements on the database in terms of tables, views, and columns.
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The interaction between a Mobile Application and a device is sometimes useful for certain functions.
In our example, the user selecting a course from a list can save it as a reminder in the device calendar app.
This lesson shows you how to integrate your Mobile Application with the device calendar...
The interaction between a mobile application and an external data source is useful for certain functions.
In our example, your mobile application receives Push Notifications by using the back-end to send Push Notifications.
This lesson shows you how to enable your back-end to send Push Notificatio...
WebRatio Mobile Platform lets you extend the set of components that can be used inside Mobile Projects to add new functionalities to your mobile applications. In this lesson you learn how to create the "SendSMS" operation that allows to send messages from the mobile application. You can download the...
A mobile application can be localized in order to show texts using the device language.
Localization means translating texts and customizing data patterns according to a specific locale. This lesson shows you how to add several locales to your mobile applications, how to translate texts and set dat...
In a mobile application, you often need to manage information that is shown to the user. Managing the information means to create, update, or delete information. With WebRatio Platform you can easily model a section so that user can manage the application data.
In this lesson you learn how to model...
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....
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....
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...
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 ...
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...
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.
WebRatio Mobile Platform allows you to send push notifications from a DataService Project. You need to add and configure a Notification Provider to enable the project for push notifications. The Notification Provider requires a specific configuration for each platform. For the Android platform you n...
WebRatio Mobile Platform gives you the possibility of making continuous builds of your Mobile Projects. This can be very useful to schedule builds on a dedicated server and for instance get a new build every night.
This process requires to create an Ant file that describes the result of the build o...
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.
This lesson gives you the basic knowledge required to define common content in an IFML Model through the "Master Page" concept.
Working on real-world Web applications may require modeling a large project. In this situation it’s important to be able to manage the project to avoid loss of control and...
This lesson gives you the basic knowledge required to define reusable portions of IFML models using the module and module definition concepts.
Working on real-world Web applications may require modeling a large project. In this situation it’s important to be able to manage the project to avoid loss...
Data management is a crucial aspect for data-centric Web applications. So far, you have learned how to create, read, update and delete data through basic patterns. However, information often needs to be displayed and dealt with in different ways.
Displaying data through View Components is not the o...
Usually Web applications do not exist standalone but need to integrate with external systems and applications already existing in the company intranet.
The best way to make different applications communicate with one another is using a Web Service infrastructure.
That’s why it is important to kn...
Mobile applications usually refers to external data source in order to read, create, update and delete information.
A back-end application is the background layer providing a data structure and a set of REST services that allow the mobile application (front-end layer) to access to this data.
In t...
In a Web application, you often need to manage the information shown to the user. Managing information means to create, update, or delete information. With WebRatio Platform you can easily model an Administration section in which the Web application user can manage the application data.
In this le...
In a Web application, you often need to manage the information shown to the user.
Managing information means to create, update, or delete information.
In this lesson we discuss an enhanced version of the Data Management pattern, which allows you to manage more than one piece of information at th...
The "Login" is the operation that allows the users to access to protected resources in a mobile app.
We need to define a place for users to insert and validate their credentials and the business logic for the Login.
In this lesson you learn how to model the basic "Login" feature, both for standalo...
One of the most common features of a mobile application is the receive of Notifications.
Notifications are sent from an external server on the Internet to the device on which the mobile application is installed.
This lesson shows you how to enable your mobile application to receive Notifications u...
WebRatio Platform provides you with a set of predefined elements that allow you to model around 90% of the features that are commonly needed by a Web application. However, the remaining 10% may require custom business logic, or integration with a specific external system.
Although it is not possibl...
Create your first Business Process application and discover the main features available for your application in WebRatio BPM Platform.
Try yourself how easy and quick is to get your BPM application watching this tutorial.
The WebRatio Mobile Platform 8.9 Release includes some new features in the mobile application modeling. Now, the mobile applications generated are based on Apache Cordova / PhoneGap 6.
Let’s review the main functionalities of this product release.
"This book discusses how model-based approaches can improve the daily practice of software professionals. This is known as Model-Driven Software Engineering (MDSE) or, simply, Model-Driven Engineering (MDE). MDSE practices have proved to increase efficiency and effectiveness in software development,...
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...
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...
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...
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: ...
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.
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 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...
WebRatio Mobile Platform gives you the possibility of making continuous builds of your Mobile Projects using predefined buildfiles bundled in WebRatio installation. This possibility can be integrated in continuous integration environments like Jenkins.
This tutorial guides you through the setup and...
Usually, Web applications do not exist standalone but need to integrate with external systems and applications that are on the company intranet. The best way to make different applications communicate with one another is by using a Web Service infrastructure. That’s why it is important to know how y...
Data management is the crucial aspect for Data Centric Web applications. So far you learnt how to create, read, update and delete data, but data is meant to be shown in so many different ways.
Reading data through View Component is not the only option you have in WebRatio Platform.
Imagine that y...
If you are working on a back-end project, once you defined your data structure in the Domain Model, you need to connect it with a persistent database.
Using the Manual Mapping procedure you can easily bind each element in the Domain Model with the corresponding already-existing item in the physical...
If you are working on a back-end project, once you defined your data structure in the Domain Model, you need to connect it with a persistent database.
Using the Domain Model synchronization process, you can extract the Domain Model elements starting from an existing database structure. The imported...
mobile applications usually interacts with the device in several ways. This lesson shows you how you can model with WebRatio Mobile Platform a Mobile Application that interacts with the device address book. You will learn how to specify the saving of a contact in the device address book and also the...
Mobile applications usually interacts with the device in several ways. This lesson shows you how you can model with WebRatio Mobile Platform a mobile application that let the user scan a QR Code/Barcode with the photocamera. You will learn how to model the scan of a QR Code/Barcode but also how to g...
WebRatio Mobile Platform lets you extend the set of components that can be used inside projects to add new functionalities.
In this lesson you learn how to create a new custom component for DataService Projects that allows to convert a string.
Learn how to migrate your WebRatio 6 project to WebRatio 7.0.
This document contains all the instructions needed for the migration process.
The goal of this portal is to explore and discuss when, where and how software modeling and model-driven engineering (and when NOT) can improve current software development practices.
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 deploy process of a Web application is the final step of the application development. In a structured company, the Web application must pass different tests before going to production.
Usually companies have several different environments where the Web application must be deployed and tested.
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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:...
In a Web application you may need to specify a piece of business logic that is executed periodically.
In this case, the execution is not triggered directly by a user interaction on the Web application, but is triggered automatically at a specific timestamp. WebRatio Platform lets you model this ...