QAT WEBDAPTIVE FOR CA GEN FAQ

Gen 8.0 will have what they call the Web View which will be totally different from the existing Web Generation. It should be able to migrate existing Web pages to Web View and take advantage of Ajax. As it is understood, Web View will use Web services. If we start using WebDaptive in Gen 7.6 will we be locked into the old Web generation option or do a lot of modifications to have it running with Web View?

This is actually one of the driving factors in favor or WebDaptive. The WebDaptive framework is an open standards based development / runtime framework. Although we have added features to make it easy to incorporate Gen Web Generation into the framework, it doesn’t require or lock you into Gen Web Generation in any way. In fact, one of it’s core strengths and a major goal of the product is to provide a smooth and incremental path into the new r8 Web View. It does this by allowing you to seamlessly integrate CA Gen Web Clients (Browser and/or Server Tier) and Non CA Gen Web Clients to form a single Rich Web UI. The r8 Web View will generate AJAX based pages, which are developed outside of Gen, but these pages can be seamlessly integrated into the WebDaptive framework today. At the same time, custom web pages can directly consume web services published with r8 by using the WebDaptive AJAX Communications Client.

In fact, using the WebDaptive framework will bring one important advantage for customers who have used Web Generation. It will allow you to incrementally move your clients to the Web View and keep them seamlessly integrated with the older Web Generation pages using the session manager service, which is a web service today.

How can QAT WebDaptive help me build better web applications if I use CA Gen?

Although WebDaptive is not specifically for CA Gen development, the product does include many specialized extensions for CA Gen that allow it to take full advantage of the product features and benefits. For example, specific Custom Gen Functions are provided that allow any Gen application to communicate natively with the functions and services provided by WebDaptive. The QAT Wizard has been specialized to provide an option that implements full support and best practice coding standards to integrate the WebDaptive UI framework, and services (Logging, Session and Authentication). WebDaptive also provides the capability to build your own client side extensions for CA Gen web applications using JavaScript. With WebDaptive, your CA Gen Web clients (.Net or Java) can have an extensible and Rich Web UI.

How does the WebDaptive Authorization Service help me secure my web application?

The authorization service can implement a single sign on for one application or an entire enterprise of applications. These services also provide for the lookup and retrieval of groups defined in the directory, which can then be used to implement simple application security.

How does the WebDaptive Session Service help integrate my applications?

The WebDaptive Session Service provide a way to store and retrieve application data for a particular user session or to share common data across multiple applications regardless of the technology. Since any application can Set and Retrieve data with these services, integration across your applications becomes simple.

How does the WebDaptive AJAX Communications Client help me build better web applications?

WebDaptive provides a SOAP Client, XML Client, HTTP Client that allows for any web service, XML service or HTTP service to be consumed in an asynchronous and/or synchronous manner. These browser clients and related services enable your application to make high performance data requests that transfer only the data being requested without the page flickering common to traditional web applications.

Do I have to use any particular technology to take advantage of WebDaptive?

Any technology, such as Web Browsers, that is JavaScript enabled can take advantage of the WebDaptive UI framework, templates and utility functions. WebDaptive's add on services such as the Logging, Mail, Session, and Authorization Services can be integrated to any application (web or non-web), package, device and programming language that can send/receive SOAP. WebDaptive allows you to mix various technologies and integrate them into a seamless application. For example, you might have several different applications written with standard web technology (HTML, JavaScript etc.) as well as some other applications (web or non-web) written in Java and a few others implemented with C# and/or CA Gen. With WebDaptive, all of these applications can be seamlessly integrated into an attractive rich user interface on the web and use our add on services for data sharing and security.

What browsers will the WebDaptive framework support?

The WebDaptive framework will work with most Modern Web browsers that support XmlHttp (Internet Explorer 5.0+, Safari 1.2, Mozilla 1.0 / Firefox, and Netscape 7). However, the technology used to implement the application parts may have it’s own requirements. For example, CA Gen requires Internet Explorer, FireFox and/or Mozilla depending on your version of CA Gen.