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Easy Web Development with WaveMaker

By : Edward Callahan
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Easy Web Development with WaveMaker

By: Edward Callahan

Overview of this book

Developers of all levels can now easily develop custom, responsive, and rich web application clients with secure, scalable servers utilizing relational databases and RESTful services using WaveMaker Studio. Whether you need a departmental business application or a form application for your weekend club, this book will show you how to design, develop, and deploy professional grade web applications with WaveMaker. Easy Web Development with WaveMaker will help you use WaveMaker to design, develop, and deploy rich, responsive web applications, even if you are not a programmer. If you need to build a data-driven web application, but you only know ‘enough to be dangerous,' you need this book. This book examines every angle of using WaveMaker to build applications, from dissecting examples to customizing, deploying, and debugging your own applications. This book enables the non-professional programmer to become comfortable not only with using WaveMaker Studio itself, but also with the artefacts produced by the studio as well as the runtime and services provided by the WaveMaker framework. You will learn everything, from how customize the user experience with JavaScript and CSS to integrating with custom Java services and the Spring Framework server-side. Easy Web Development with WaveMaker 6.5 is packed with examples, code samples, screenshots, and links to equip you to be successful with WaveMaker Studio.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Easy Web Development with WaveMaker
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
6
Styling the Application
7
Working with Databases
8
Utilizing Web Services
Index

Binding dialog


The last area of Studio we need to cover is the binding dialog. This is the graphical tooling for subscripting to topic notifications. The primary topic of interest here being the "has changed" event. Consider the binding in the following screenshot:

Here we have bound the caption of a label named label4 to the name of the department selected in the department grid. This binding causes the label to be notified when the selected department changes. The grid publishes a "has changed" notification when the selected item changes. Upon receiving that notification, the label can then get the new value and update its caption accordingly.

There are four view modes to the binding dialog: Simple, Advanced, Resources, and Expression. A search editor is available to quickly find source components. Type information is also used to provide a green, yellow, or red indicator icon in the top-right corner. Matched types are indicated by the green checkbox, whereas the yellow warning and red X...