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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

Integration Studio walkthrough

Integration Studio is a tool that allows us to create extensions to our platform, such as creating functionalities in native C#/.NET code. Functions made in C#/.NET are transformed by Integration Studio into Server Actions. In this way, our custom code is available similarly to our application code for consumer modules.

Furthermore, with this tool, we can configure our connections to external databases (after the given connection has been configured in Service Center).

In a way, it's a simpler tool than Service Studio since it offers much less functionality; Integration Studio works in parallel with Microsoft Visual Studio to help us develop our code.

The following screenshot shows the OutSystems Integration Studio popup where we configure the Visual Studio connection:

Figure 2.16 – The Integration Studio popup to configure the connection with Microsoft Visual Studio

Integration Studio has fewer layers and...