Table of Contents
Introduction to the WAF Developer Guide........................................................................................i
1. Assumptions About WAF Developers...................................................................................i
2. Document Conventions..........................................................................................................i
3. Code Presentation Conventions ...........................................................................................iv
I. WAF Concepts ..................................................................................................................................i
1. WAF Overview .....................................................................................................................1
1.1. General Architecture..............................................................................................2
1.2. Features..................................................................................................................3
1.3. Applications...........................................................................................................6
2. WAF Component: Persistence ..............................................................................................9
2.1. Persistence Overview.............................................................................................9
2.2. Object-Relational Mapping....................................................................................9
2.3. Persistence Definition Language (PDL) ................................................................9
2.4. Persistence and Domain APIs (DataObject, DataAssociation, DataCollection,
DomainObjects)..............................................................................................10
2.5. Session and Transaction Management.................................................................10
3. WAF Component: Kernel....................................................................................................11
3.1. Users and Groups.................................................................................................11
3.2. ACSObject ...........................................................................................................11
3.3. Permissions..........................................................................................................11
3.4. Kernel Resources .................................................................................................12
4. WAF Component: Services.................................................................................................13
4.1. Auditing Service ..................................................................................................13
4.2. Categorization Service.........................................................................................13
4.3. Formbuilder Service.............................................................................................14
4.4. Globalization Service...........................................................................................15
4.5. Mail Service.........................................................................................................16
4.6. Messaging Service ...............................................................................................16
4.7. Notification Service .............................................................................................17
4.8. Portal Service.......................................................................................................17
4.9. Search Service......................................................................................................17
4.10. Workflow Service...............................................................................................17
4.11. Versioning Service .............................................................................................18
5. WAF Component: Presentation...........................................................................................19
5.1. Overview of Presentation Standards....................................................................19
5.2. CSS and XSLT.....................................................................................................20
5.3. JavaServer Pages (JSP) ........................................................................................24
5.4. Bebop - Reusable Web UI Components ..............................................................25
6. WAF Component: Web.......................................................................................................31
6.1. Applications.........................................................................................................31
6.2. BaseServlet......................................................................................................31
6.3. Dispatcher ............................................................................................................32
II. Equipping Developers..................................................................................................................33
7. Developing with WAF ........................................................................................................35
7.1. Developer Education............................................................................................35
7.2. Third-Party Development Tools...........................................................................35
7.3. Developer Support ...............................................................................................36
7.4. Setting Up Eclipse and WAF...............................................................................38
7.5. Using logging for debugging ...............................................................................42
8. WAF Application Development Tutorial............................................................................49
8.1. Terms and Assumptions.......................................................................................49
8.2. Good Practices .....................................................................................................49
8.3. Directories in the Work Area...............................................................................49
