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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

Service Center capabilities

Service Center is a management console dedicated to a given OutSystems environment.

In this section, we will see that Service Center is a very powerful tool that allows us to manage settings in OutSystems environments, monitor all events logged by the native logging system (and customized logging systems as well) in a very intuitive way, monitor the state of the infrastructure components that make up the environment, and perform analysis on and export analytical data.

In Service Center, the following features are available:

  • Factory: This allows us to have an overview of all existing Applications, Modules, Extensions, and Solutions in the environment.
  • Monitoring: This allows us to access the various logs registered on the platform, both for events and errors.
  • Administration: This allows us to make various configurations for the environment and manage external connections.
  • Analytics: This allows us to visualize the analytical data...