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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

Dissecting the template class


The initial version of the class is generated from a template. It's pretty simple, but it is important to understand it too:

package com.wavemaker.example;

The package name comes directly from the package name we specified in the creation dialog.

In Chapter 2, Digging into the Architecture, we learned that a service class must extend JavaServiceSuperClass or use the @ExposeToClient annotation in order to be able to expose methods to the client. The template does both, and there are two imports: one for the super class and the other for the annotation:

import com.wavemaker.runtime.javaservice.JavaServiceSuperClass;
import com.wavemaker.runtime.service.annotations.ExposeToClient;

In between two comments, the first noting the class as client-facing and the second using the log command, is the class declaration:

@ExposeToClient

public class DbOpsSvc extends JavaServiceSuperClass {

In the preceding code, we can see the use of the annotation and the extension of the...