2. Who is CM First?
Enterprise Software Development Integrator
• Offices in Switzerland, USA, Italy, India
• Network of worldwide resale partners (Americas, EMEA,
APJ, ANZ)
CA Primary Sales and Technology Partner
• CA 2E, CA Plex, CA Repository
• Footprint covers 20% of Installed Base
App Dev Products
• CM Matchpoint ALM Suite
• CM WebClient i+
• CM Power (PHP) Suite
• CM M3 (CA 2E Migration / Modernization)
• SD Source Scanners for CA Repository
Third-party Solutions
• Soreco, Databorough, Worksoft, Websydian
3. Overview
• WebClient for CA Plex Ajax in Greek mythology
• Introduction
• Roadmap
• Demonstration
• What’s Next / Futures
4. AJAX / JavaScript / HTML5 is Big
…and getting bigger
“Ajax remains
the dominant
RIA of choice,
and HTML5 is
poised to
expand the
power and
flexibility of the
browser only
approach”
Gartner Group
Ajax mountain
5. WebClient
Web generator from the Plex model
Same Plex function
Same Action Diagram, Panel Design
=
AJAX,
ASAP
6. WebClient Value Proposition
• Quick, integrated implementation
• Maintain one code base, with 5250, client-server, web, and mobile presentation channels
• Inherit our CA Foundations based light weight patterns, or even use OBASE or your own custom
• Use your existing skills
• WSYWIG plugin generator with seamless interface into CA Plex
• Automatically build rich pages based on Plex tabs, child windows, tree views, more
• Open standards based
• Run as standard extensible J2EE service, Tomcat, Websphere, IIS, …
• Deploy on IBM i, Windows, Linux, Unix, zOS.
• Secure encryption, high availability, and portal configurations supported
• No plugins - Run as native rich web application on the popular browsers
• Mobile touch optimized templates available
• Deployment supported on all popular platforms, Apple, Android, BB6 and above
8. Ajax Inheritance
Requirement: Add geolocation services to existing CA Plex
app, using address, longitude, and latitude. Must use GPS.
Step 1: Develop JavaScript code from open source examples
Step 2: Encapsulate into CA Plex pattern
Step 3: Use CA Plex inheritance to add mapping and GPS functionality throughout
application, using standard action diagrams and panel designs.
Available as a 30 minute workshop exercise
11. Runtime Architecture
Enterprise App Server
Web / J2EE Server
Plex Server
(RPG, .NET/C#,
C++, Java)
http J2EE Server (Tomcat, Websphere, …)
server
(Apache,
IIS, …) Web
Container Plex RT
WebClient
Servlet Biz
Logic
Plex RT
Browser
(IE, Chrome, Client
Safari, Firefox) Presentation
Logic
Data
HTML/CSS
Database
Plex generated presentation layer
Database Server
Plex generated server layer
11
12. Web Service Wrapper Interface
WebClient Plex
Servlet Panel or
Non-Panel
Function
External App,
Package, BPMS
Call Plex functions without panels
Call Plex functions with panels
Auto enter screen fields, simulate event
Generalized, structured WSDL
No modeling or coding required
Quickly establish SOA bus for internal use
BPM / Workflow
Inter-process communication
13. Cloud Computing Instances
Deploy pre-defined load balanced instances
of CA Plex WebClient applications in Cloud
environments
Java
RPG IV
VPN Link
Other environments?
Windows Azure, IBM, etc.
18. Statistics
The world is going mobile
• 50 million iPhones sold to
date
• 200,000 Android devices
sold each day
• 8.5 million iPads sold to
date
• 70 million tablets predicted
by the end of 2012
• 2/3 of the Fortune 100 have
started deploying iPads for
Enterprise use
19. 1.8 Mobile iPhone/iPad/Android/BB6
Web App with Native Optimization
mobileportal.cmfirsttech.com/Plex2EWeb/wcs
HTML5, CSS3
Native App - Android Market Sencha Touch
http://market.android.com “Gartner COOL Vendor
2011”
20. CA Plex+WebClient with Sencha Touch
• Covers 93%
of mobile
traffic
• HTML 5,
CSS3, ExtJS
• SaSS
• Local Storage
• Media/Geo
27. 1.8 Core Product at a Glance
Claro Theme
Menu “Child”
Accordion
Scaling
28. Core Product Descriptions
Themes, Accordion, Menu “Child”, Scaling
• Themes
• Plug in new themes, such as the supplied “Claro”
theme
# URL reference for JavaScript resource and style sheet (CSS)
resurl.plex.imageresources=/NXAModelWeb
resurl.com.custom.webclient=/NXAModelWeb
resurl.com.dataspecialists.webclient=/NXAModelWeb
#resurl.com.adcaustin.webclient=/NXAModelWeb
# Form action field
Define.WSACTION=/NXAModelWeb/WebClientServlet
Define.WCTHEME=claro
• Accordion
• New “Outlook” Style presentation of TreeView, for
menus
29. Core Product Descriptions
• Menu App Panels
• Special support of menu panels – allow
any window type to show in child site –
OBASE, MDI, TopApp
• Scaling
• Automatic scaling of app panel if desired
• Filtering
• Client side filtering with
Autocomplete/Intellisense
30. 1.8 Grids
Drag n Drop
Export
Filtering
Grid Column Menu
Save Placement
31. 1.8 Grid Enhancements
• Grid Special Menu
• UI to select columns, sort, order
• Drag and Drop
• Drag and drop columns new positions,
one click sort
• Save Placement
• Save settings in persistent session
• Export
• Load grid data to Excel, CSV
36. Miscellaneous
• Hotkeys
• Define your own browser hot keys
• Launch WebClient or other browser
windows
• Numeric Keypad Support
• Data Entry
• File Upload
• Multiple files to server location
• Plex 7.0 (when released/tested)
• No more Crypkey!
37. New Web Support Sites
• New Support Site
• Forums, other enhancements
• Meets Section 509 Requirements
• USA Government Accessibility Standards
• Upgraded Blog
• New look and feel
• New articles on 1.8
• Enhanced Documentation
43. WebClient Information
(click logo to view)
• webclientiplus.com
• Wiki
• Blog
• Product Downloads / Support
Editor's Notes
First, for those of you who are not familiar with CM First, here is an overview.
Here is the promise of WebClient in a nutshell –the ability to generate a web page from an existing panel without rewriting. In this example, we have a Plex function that has been generated in 5250. With CA Plex, it is easy to generate a client server version running on Windows or Java without code changes. In fact, you are probably already familiar with this capability. WebClient add the ability to generate a web page as just another variant on your model. In this example, all three variants of the Edit Warehouse function share the same action diagram and the same panel editor design. The WebClient version show what is possible with the application of a cascading style sheet to make the screen design even more presentable. So the result is that you can be generating web pages from your CA Plex applications in a matter of minutes. Pretty powerful stuff.
Here are some examples of the rich web components you can generate from your CA Plex panel designs. Grids, even editable grids, are fully supported. Windowed dialogs are supported from the web page, to any level. CA Plex messaging is supported. Some other standard components include calendars, bread crumbing, and disappearing hint text.Lastly, you can also take your CA plex applications to the next level with business charting, and new components like TreeView and FlexGrid, an advanced grid with dynamic columns, cell bitmaps, and advanced formatting options.
Creating patterns with WebClient is straightforward – use what you already know.
Here are some examples of the rich web components you can generate from your CA Plex panel designs. Grids, even editable grids, are fully supported. Windowed dialogs are supported from the web page, to any level. CA Plex messaging is supported. Some other standard components include calendars, bread crumbing, and disappearing hint text.Lastly, you can also take your CA plex applications to the next level with business charting, and new components like TreeView and FlexGrid, an advanced grid with dynamic columns, cell bitmaps, and advanced formatting options.
In the demonstration you were able to see the next version of WebClient, our 2010 major release. This release contains several new features. The first is compatibility enhancements. CA Plex 6.1 is now supported, as well as the latest versions of Websydian, Websydian Web Developer 6.1 and Websydian Express 3.0. It is important to note that WebClient web applications are interoperable with Websydian web pages. As you saw in the demo, we also have some optional new advanced controls including TreeView and FlexGrid. Another major enhancement is tested cross browser compatibility across the major browser platforms. Lastly, we are offering a ADC Server option, which provides the ability to host web pages simply and easily at a reduced price.
These statistics are truly eye popping. iPhones are selling like hotcakes. There are 200,000 android devices sold each day, particularly over in Asia – there are actually more phones in China than there are people in the USA. iPad tablets are less that an year old, yet there have been millions sold. I think the most important stat to the audience today is the last one – iPhones and iPads and Android devices are no longer just a consumer phenomenom – they are making serious inroads into enterprise. You have probably seen the ads on medical use of iPads is taking off. But you are also seeing mobile in a wide variety of business applications, from auto dealerships to education to insurance to government.
Mobile
What we are offering is what we feel is a much better way – using CA Plex in conjunction with WebClient and a mobile GUI library called Sencha Touch. Using the approach, which is JavaScript based, you will end up with a first-class mobile UI that operates as true mobile application. It will operate in an webkit-based mobile browser environment – which directly covers iPhone, iPad, and Android, or 94% of the mobile browsing traffic. It also covers some of the other platforms like BlackBerry and Nokia, that are introducing webkit based browsers onto their platforms. For example, BlackBerry 6.0 has been tested successfully with this technology. The framework makes use of the latest browser technology – for example HTML 5 and CSS 3. These technologies are expected by many to supplant older technologies like Flash and Silverlight, and in fact HTML 5 is on an upward trajectory in use at many high volume production sites. With this framework, you can do more that serve up applications – you can make use of local storage, audio/video capability, geographic services, and of course the touch framework so popular on the new devices.
Here are some examples of the rich web components you can generate from your CA Plex panel designs. Grids, even editable grids, are fully supported. Windowed dialogs are supported from the web page, to any level. CA Plex messaging is supported. Some other standard components include calendars, bread crumbing, and disappearing hint text.Lastly, you can also take your CA plex applications to the next level with business charting, and new components like TreeView and FlexGrid, an advanced grid with dynamic columns, cell bitmaps, and advanced formatting options.
Here are some examples of the rich web components you can generate from your CA Plex panel designs. Grids, even editable grids, are fully supported. Windowed dialogs are supported from the web page, to any level. CA Plex messaging is supported. Some other standard components include calendars, bread crumbing, and disappearing hint text.Lastly, you can also take your CA plex applications to the next level with business charting, and new components like TreeView and FlexGrid, an advanced grid with dynamic columns, cell bitmaps, and advanced formatting options.
