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Rapid Application Development with OutSystems

By : Ricardo Pereira
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Rapid Application Development with OutSystems

By: Ricardo Pereira

Overview of this book

OutSystems is a software development platform that speeds up the build phase by abstracting code and making almost everything visual. This means replacing textual language with visual artifacts that avoid lexical errors and speed up code composition using accelerators and predefined templates. The book begins by walking you through the fundamentals of the technology, along with a general overview of end-to-end web and mobile software development. You'll learn how to configure your personal area in the cloud and use the OutSystems IDE to connect with it. The book then shows you how to build a web application based on the best architectural and developmental practices in the market, and takes the same approach for the mobile paradigm. As you advance, you'll find out how to develop the same application, and the great potential of reusing code from one paradigm in another and the symbiosis between them is showcased.The only application that'll differ from the application in the exercise is the one used in business process technology (BPT), with a focus on a common market use case. By the end of this OutSystems book, you'll be able to develop enterprise-level applications on the web and mobile, integrating them with third parties and other systems on the market. You'll also understand the concepts of performance, security, and software construction and be able to apply them effectively.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1: OutSystems 101
5
Section 2: The Magical Path of the Backend
10
Section 3: Create Value and Innovate with the Frontend
16
Section 4: Extensibility and Complexity of the OutSystems Platform

Chapter 2: Components, Tools, and Capabilities

The OutSystems platform provides a wide range of tools and components so that we can develop, manage, and monitor our applications in a simple and effective way.

In this chapter, we will learn how we can use the platform's development tools to create our applications, and we will utilize the code integrity verification system, which only allows us to publish our code if it is solid. Furthermore, we will learn how these tools are prepared and optimized to speed up our work by using many pre-existing components. In the case of Service Studio, we'll see how OutSystems' visual code development paradigm makes it easier for us to focus on what's important: the business!

We'll also see how the monitoring and configuration tools help us keep the platform healthy and how we can use them to fix our bugs, discover negative application behavior trends, and improve our applications!

This may seem like a lot, but believe...