LANSA has greatly enhanced the flexibility of their product with the introduction of WAMs. One of the best features is the use of weblets for interface design. Weblets are documents written in XSL that can be dragged and dropped into the design view for the page. The properties for the weblet can then be set so that it performs its desired function. This is a great concept because the documents can be copied, modified for specific use and saved as new weblets used for specific purposes.
As part of the R&D effort here at Rippe & Kingston we have been working to deliver WAMs through IBM Websphere Portal and other’s. Now that we’ve gained experience in using these documents to control style sheets, java script, and other page layout related issues; we are looking at improving on LANSA’s template (scripting) technology.
Standard buttons or clickable images can be customized and saved as new weblets with dedicated functionality. We are associating weblets with fields through LANSA’s “Visualization” feature. This allows you to include fields in templates that represent buttons. Once you run the template and compile the program, the customized buttons are already included on the page. This technique dramatically cuts development time for an application.
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