Tutorial 12. Direct to Web

Building a Direct To Web Application

Direct to web is a simple and fast way to get a web front end to a database

- use for development not for production

Start EOModeller - HardDrive/Developer/Applications/EOModeler

Create a new model - Menu Model->New

A wizard starts that directw you through the process

1. select JDBC

2. select the server, the data base and the driver

3. check all boxes to current database setup

4. You can finish or go on with further selections

5. Select all entities (rows) in database and finish

6. Other selections include primary keys etc

7. EO model of database will be displayed

You can look at the data by selecting an entity and clicking the magnifying glass

SAVE the EO model

8. Next start XCode

Menu->File->NewProject - to build a web front end select a "Direct To Web Application"

9. More details on setups in XCode are given in the following tutorial

Select a project name, folder to put it in, database connectivity and EOModel

10. Choose a look for your web frontend

11. Select build and launch, wait for a while (could be several minutes) and a browser will start and present a page

12. No user name and login set so click login

13. use pop ups and text entry to search for some data - all movies in categories starting with t

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