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WebClient Web Application Server Listener

To add an application server web session listener to your WebClient application, ensure that this  XML fragment is present under the web-app element in your web.xml. <listener> <listener-class>com.adcaustin.webclient.servletproxy.WebSessionListener</listener-class> </listener> When the listener is installed, then application clean-up will occur immediately when the session … Continue reading

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WebClient January 2010 Newsletter Published

 The January 2010 WebClient newsletter is available at this link. Highlights of this edition include: New guide published for deploying applications to Websphere New tip published for implementing an Ajax style wait cursor   Version 1.4.19 released CA World planned for … Continue reading

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Deploying CA Plex/WebClient Apps on IBM WebSphere

Deploying CA Plex/WebClient applications on the IBM WebSphere Application Server can be more challenging that on Tomcat – although the process is largely the same conceptually, WebSphere has more features, options, and versions available. This guide is written with IBM … Continue reading

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How to look busy with WebClient

This guide will walk you through the steps required to implement an Ajaxy ‘busy’ indicator for a CA Plex/WebClient application. The indicator signals to the user that the web application is processing their request, and to wait until it finishes. … Continue reading

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Deploying WebClient Applications using Tomcat/Apache with SSL

There are benefits to running secure production WebClient/Websydian applications under a combination of both Tomcat and Apache. This configuration can be the highest performance option, and can be run under SSL for security. Tomcat and Apache are both free, open source software … Continue reading

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Let it snow – fun with templates

Lets have a bit of fun with our CA Plex / WebClient application – lets change the panel background to a snow storm. This will be done with a bit of javascript, and adding a triple “myfunction is a SnowShell”. We … Continue reading

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WebClient Test Drive Available

The WebClient test drive that was given at the CA Plex and 2E developer’s conference and the Boise Fall 2009 event is now available to download and access online. This is an excellent opportunity to evaluate the Websydian WebClient i+ platform … Continue reading

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Embedding a url/web page in a WebClient panel

Sometimes it is useful to show an external web page or component embedded in the body of a WebClient panel. An example could be showing another web site, an image, a map, a widget like a calculator, or some other … Continue reading

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WebClient on IIS with Tomcat

If you would like to run WebClient applications under IIS control, there are a few things to be aware of. Normally IIS can not execute Servlets and Java Server Pages (JSPs), so you need to configure IIS to use the JK ISAPI redirector plugin … Continue reading

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Accessing and Controlling Web Sessions

Accessing Sessions from your CA Plex / WebClient application Since WebClient applications are running on web servers, the concept of the session tracking can be important. Session tracking is a mechanism that is used to maintain state about a series … Continue reading

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