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.

The Stored Procedure is an Operation that allows calling a procedure stored in a database. To use this Component correctly, the procedure must be previously created in your database. Discover how to use the Stored Procedure reading this article.

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 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...

Modeling the domain information managed by the Web Application is a task that can be easily done with WebRatio. In fact, you have at your disposal many options that allow you to easily create the Domain Model starting from an existing database. Nevertheless you may need to manually add some new obje...

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.

The Excel Style is a predefined style available in WebRatio Platform. This style allows to export the content of a modeled page in an Excel spreadsheet file. The generation process creates a JSP page containing XML code that is processed by a custom tag that invokes the Apache POI engine to render t...

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.

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 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...