Creating Rich Internet Applications with WebFOCUS Patrick Hammond April 6, 2010

Creating Rich Internet Applications with WebFOCUS See new capabilities in Developer Studio to build Rich Internet Applications (RIA) using Windows Controls and Shockwave Flash. These capabilities allow new appearance options as well as new design opportunities for your reporting applications. During this session we will also explore the business value of these new capabilities so you can explore how they might apply in your organization. Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 2 Abstract

What we’ll cover today Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 3 Rich Internet Applications…  Defining the “Buzzwords”  Benefits  Examples  Development

RIA DEFINED Creating Rich Internet Applications with WebFOCUS Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 4

Evolution of Web Technologies Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 5

What is Web 2.0? Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 6 According to Tim O'Reilly: “ Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as a platform…”

What are Rich Internet Applications? Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 7 According to Wikipedia: …web applications that have many of the characteristics of desktop applications, typically delivered either by way of a site-specific browser, via a browser plug-in, or independently via sandboxes or virtual machines.

Rich Internet Applications - Frameworks Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 8

Ajax Frameworks Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 9  Another flavor of RIAs  JavaScript Based  No plug-ins!

BENEFITS Creating Rich Internet Applications with WebFOCUS Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 10

Benefits of Rich Internet Applications  Rich – robust and intuitive  Responsive – quickly updates  Zero footprint  Sticky Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 11

EXAMPLES Creating Rich Internet Applications with WebFOCUS Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 12

Type of Rich Internet Applications in WebFOCUS  WebFOCUS generated  Active Flex-based Reports  Active Flex-based Dashboards  Ajax-based applications  Flex Builder integration  WebFOCUS plugs into Flex Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 13

DEVELOPMENT Creating Rich Internet Applications with WebFOCUS Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 26

RIA Configuration Step 1: Install Developer Studio

RIA Configuration Step 2: Invoke HTML Composer to generate Registry Keys

RIA Configuration Step 3: Invoke Regedit

RIA Configuration Step 4: Navigate to the following key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Information Builders\DeveloperStudio\76\FOCSHELL\WebFOCUS Developer Studio\ResourceLayout

RIA Configuration Step 5: Change “Bindows” setting from 0 to 1

Demonstration