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...
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 specification defines the Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML). The objective of IFML is to provide system architects, software engineers, and software developers with tools for the definition of Interaction Flow Models that describe the principal dimensions of an application front-end: th...
This is the case study used during the WebRatio Platform Modeler Classroom Training Course. You need to download this file in order to have the set of requirements used during the training course as reference. You can also try do model this case study by yourself in order to test your knowledge in W...
Work as a team effectively requires communication, collaboration, organization and time management skills. This document is not a complete guide on how to work as a team rather it is a guideline to use WebRatio Platform with a revision control system for better project management. This document will...
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...
Learn how to migrate your WebRatio 7.1 project to WebRatio 7.2.
This document contains all the instructions needed for the migration process.
WebRatio gives at your disposal a predefined set of view components and operations that let you model most of the features of your Web application. Sometimes it happens that WebRatio does not include a specific business logic that you need. In this case you can address the problem creating custom co...
This document contains the full list of major changes contained in WebRatio 7.2. The WebRatio Platform 7.2 Release includes the new updates relative to the last release 7.2.20. This is a Security Release. We recommend upgrading to 7.2.20 to ensure the security of your web applications and data. Thi...
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.
WebRatio Reports is an add-on of WebRatio aimed to design and produce professional-quality reports.
WebRatio Reports leverages on Jasper Reports, a popular open source reporting solution, and on its accompanying visual report designer (iReport), to enhance Web applications with professional quali...
WebRatio provides some properties that define the information reguarding the runtime of your web application. RTXConfig.properties file is the properties file where you can configure your preferences. The RTXConfig.properties file contains information that control your work directory where the appli...
In the Domain Model you can define BLOB attributes to store files.
A common issue related to BLOB attributes is to show a dialog for the download of the blob data as a file.
You can consider as a solution to change the layout template to use the Content Disposition feature, which forces the "Sa...
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...
The WebRatio Client Runtime is the ECMAScript based execution environment and core set of utilities that hosts client applications. It is a feature available starting from WebRatio 7. There is only a single implicit Runtime instance per Web browser window. The main customization is related to the lo...
WebRatio Store is a place where you can search for items (projects, styles, templates, units) and use them in your applications, or even publish a new item and share it with all WebRatio Store users.
WebRatio Store is accessible through the "WebRatio Store" icon located inside WebRatio or from th...
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...