Provided details on the tech stack

1. WebBee rapid web application
development full lightweight
tech stack
Dmitriy Rogatkin
January 2012

2. Tech stack content
 TJWS light weight application server supporting servlet
specification 3.0 and JSP specification 2.2
 7Bee XML based scripting tool for building, installation and
testing tasks
 Aldan 3 multipurpose light weight application development
framework including
• MVC and front controller servlet framework
• Template engine
• Light weight Java annotation driven DO
• Simplified SOA container with built in common basic services
• General purpose utilities
• Light weight Ajax framework
 WebBee rapid web application development building blocks on
top of Aldan 3 including:
• App portal, forms, reports, grids, chat, attachments, tree and other
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3. Architecture of web framework
Page model
..
Response
Front Request
View Generator
controller
Cache of page services
JSP Views View templates
Text resources
Model data
Cached content
Registry Logger Resource Persistence
Manager Manager
SOA container Config
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4. Building block page service diagram
Customized per use
Customized per building block
Custom per app
Base page service
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5. Base Page service in deep
 Configurable base web application behavior
 Access control
 Base Ajax handlers
 Pattern method for generation page model, controller, and data
binding
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6. Web technologies supporting highlights
 Flexible views support as JSP as template based like Velocity
and also built-in powerful template engine
 View implementation as composition of common and
model/controller specific templates
 Annotation declared autosuggest and cascading support
 Open architecture to use any Ajax library (in addition to built-in
light weight Ajax library)
 Comet (web push) technology is part of framework with
utilization of servlet specification 3.0 and future websockets
(covered by separate presentation)
 Multi faced UI, mobile browsers aware
 Pre built common web application building blocks requiring only
annotation based configuration in most cases
 Codebase is Android compatible can be compiled and run
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7. Application creation methodology
 Identify data model
 Represent application UI mapped in WebBee building blocks
 Code data model in JDO with storage annotations
 Extend UI building blocks adding data model connection
 Add presentation annotations to data model
 Create view templates
 Code Ajax handlers (server side) and server push handlers
(client side)
 Create background services
 Adjust application model for common behavior and background
services
 Refresh config files
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8. Circle of use and competition
 Extremely light weight with foot print varies from 200K to 2MB
including app server, frameworks and application (JDK is extra)
 Mobile and embedded deployment friendly
 Android version is available with J2EE war based deployment
 QA, and Installation tool
 Offline applications
 Small to medium size web site
 Competitors:
• Spring MVC
• Tapestry
• Stripes
• JSF
• Struts 2
• Wicket
• Play!
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9. Using 3rd party products
 TJWS
• JSP engines GNU and Jasper
 7Bee
• Jdepend by Mike Clark
• JSch by Jcraft
 Aldan 3
• None
 WebBee
• NicEdit by Brian Kirchoff
• HTML encoder (public domain)
• Tigra Calendar (public domain)
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10. Comparison with other web app frameworks
Spring Tapestry WebBee
License Apache, GPL2 Apache BSD
Target Audience Enterprise Enterprise Mobile
Scaffolding Yes ? Yes
Development Yes ? Yes
principles
Design pattern Yes ? Yes
Multilingual Yes ? Yes
content
View Velocity, JSP HTMLT HTMLT, JSP
Security Container Container Built-in
JDO Hibernate Hibernate Built-in
Ajax DOJO DOJO Built-in
Pre-built solutions No No 20+
Configuration XML XML Annotations
10
Footprint 5.3M 4.5M 320K
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11. Code and application demonstration
 Ipicurei
 WebFolder
 TravelsPal
 Atjeews (Android)
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