When you are working on a Web application you have to consider both the user interaction and the application behavior executed when the user triggers an action. The application behavior can be any kind of business logic you may need to express.
WebRatio Platform provides you with a set of componen...
In the lesson dedicated to the Domain Model Overview, you learned about the Entity-Relationship model and its main concepts: Entity, Attribute and Relationship.
The representation of the Domain Model in WebRatio Platform is quite similar to the Entity-Relationship notation ad it is based on the sam...
The ability to show a list of elements and the details of each listed element is one of the most common patterns in Applications.
This lesson shows you how to model the List & Details in WebRatio Mobile Platform.
The UnsupportedClassVersionError can occurr in a Web Project that uses custom components, such as custom validation rules, servlets or listeners.
All these components are developed using a different project (e.g. a Java project) in which you have to compile the Java classes and create a jar file...
In a Web 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 an administration section so that the Web Application user can manage the application data.
In t...
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...
Learn how to enrich the Domain Model with calculated information, derived from the materialized data existing in the Domain Model itself. This process is called "derivation", since it creates redundant information that can become handy when defining IFML models. Derivation can be applied by using va...
This is the first lesson that explains the Domain Model in WebRatio Platform.
In this lesson, we introduce the main concepts related to the Domain Model, including a deep analysis of the notation adopted - Entity Relationship (E-R). The following lessons show some detailed content and will explain ...
The WebRatio Mobile Platform 8.10 Release introduced a couple of interesting upgrades. Now, the mobile applications generated are based on Apache Cordova / PhoneGap 7.1. The Ionic framework has been upgraded to 1.3.5 version and generated mobile applications now support iPhone X. Read the full docum...
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...
An important aspect of a Web application is its Visual Identity.
The Visual Identity represents all the graphic widgets that you may want to use in order to make the Web application look good while providing a great user experience.
WebRatio lets you create Web applications with a great Visual I...
Subversion is a free, open-source revision control system (RCS). Subversion manages files and directories over time. These files and directories are placed into a central storage called a repository. The repository is quite similar to an ordinary file server, except that it remembers every chang...
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. ...
WebRatio Mobile Platform is a powerful development environment that supports business users and IT developers in building mobile applications that can be installed on mobile phones and tablets. Your mobile applications can work both offline, without the use of an Internet connection, or online, sync...
The WebRatio Mobile Platform 8.3 Release includes some new features in the mobile and back-end application modeling. It is now possible to create a mobile application that it is able to show one or more locations in a map. The mobile application can now also be integrated with the device's native ma...
The WebRatio Mobile Platform 8.1 Release includes the chance to add push notifications to your mobile application. Moreover, the mobile application can now save events on the device calendar app. Plus, it is now possible to model a user registration workfow saving the user information on the back-en...
The search function is the main way the user looks for content on an application.
There are different ways to model a search, each one addressing a specific user need.
One way to model a search is to filter the result using a "keyword" field. In a CRM application, an example is a company search by...
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...
The WebRatio Mobile Platform 8.2 Release includes some new features in the mobile application modeling. It is now possible to create a mobile application that it is able to show a QR Code/Barcode and/or to scan a QRCode/Barcode. The mobile application can now also be integrated with the device addre...
The WebRatio Mobile Platform 8.4 Release includes some new features in the mobile and back-end application modeling. It is now possible to create a mobile application where you can set the orientation and specify whether the mobile application must be opened in fullscreen mode or not.
The back-end...
The ability to show a list of elements and the details of each listed element is the one of the most common patterns in Web applications, and is called the Master and Details pattern.
In a previous lesson, you already learned how to model the basic Master and Details pattern.
This lesson shows y...
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...
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...
WebRatio BPM Platform is a powerful development environment that supports Business Analysts in building an application that manages their business process through a BPM engine. Let’s look at the main functionalities of this product release.
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 Mobile Platform is a powerful development environment that supports business users and IT developers in building mobile applications that can be installed on mobile phones and tablets. Your mobile applications can work both offline, without the use of an internet connection; or online, sync...
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.
In this lesson you learn how to connect the Domain Model, built in WebRatio Mobile Platform, with a relational database.
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...
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...
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.