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 guide goes through the required steps to download and install WebRatio Platform 9.

This guide goes through the activation procedure for each WebRatio Platform 9 edition.

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. ...

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.

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...

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 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...

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 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 WebRatio Mobile Platform lets you build Android and iOS apps that you can test on your mobile device or submit to the Google Play Store or Apple App Store. It is also possible to debug the mobile application to find and solve any issues that may arise during development. This article guides you...

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...

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.

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.

The Disconnect Operation is an operation used to delete the association between instances of two entities (the source entity and the target entity), connected by a predefined relationship role. This article guides you to the usage of the Disconnect showing also a working example.

WebRatio Platform provides a built-in feature for the localization of Web applications. The localization is based on the usage of keys instead of terms for all the static elements of the Web application (e.g., labels, components and page titles, field labels and so on). WebRatio Platform allows use...

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.

Modeling a business process may require some kind of communication with other related business processes. The reason for this may be to wake up a process that was waiting for a particular situation to verify or to start a new process. The BPMN notation provides two different concepts for this purpos...

WebRatio Mobile Platform lets you build Android and iOS apps that you can test on your mobile device or submit to the Google Play Store or Apple App Store. It is also possible to debug the mobile application to find and solve any issue that may come out during the development. RemoteDebug iOS WebKit...

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...

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.

The Periodical Page Refresh is a feature that allows you to add a trigger to a navigation flow with the selective refresh enabled. In this way, it’s possible to automate clicking on a link to update some information in real time. This feature is very useful when you need to execute a business logic ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 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.

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...