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 that are proven in high performance production environments. While lacking some of the management features of

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 will use the javascript example posted at this URL http://javascript.about.com/library/blsnow2.htm. First download this zip containing

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 first hand. To take the WebClient 2009 Test Drive, please visit the following link: http://www.adcaustintech.com/webclient/blog/?page_id=252

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 item of interest. Because WebClient panels are generated as standard web pages, this is very

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 that will let IIS send servlet and JSP requests to Tomcat (and this way, serve

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 of requests from the same user (that is, requests originating from the same browser) across

Special Note: Andrew Leggett, Senior Application Consultant, is the guest author of this post. Andrew Leggett can be reached at aleggett@adcaustin.com. WebClient makes it easy to generate your Plex panel designs as HTML and Javascript so they can be used within a web browser; but with the use of custom templates, you can also present

Learn how to apply CSS and templates to your CA Plex generated application, and give it a distinctive look and feel.

In this second installment of the three part deep-linking series, we will show the steps necessary to create a simple url access (“deep link”) into any Plex function by WebClient. If you missed the first installment, the introduction to WebClient deep linking, you can access it by clicking here. Although this simple example shows a function with

WebClient developers have an added bonus that comes as a side effect of generating their Plex panels as RIA applications – the built-in ability to call their functions using an XML external call mechanism. This call mechanism can be invoked in a couple different ways: You can call Plex functions as “deep linked” web pages with parameters that can be embedded