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WOW 6.0 Walkthrough

* WOW Tutorial *

Creating WOW Applications

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Table of Contents

Purpose 3

Introduction 3

Building the Application 5

Starting WOW 5

Creating a Connection 6

Adding an SQL Operation 10

Running the Application 14

Creating Field Descriptors 16

Additional Enhancements/Features 21

Chapter

1

Introduction

Purpose

This document describes how to create a sample Web-based DataEngine Application using the Web Object Wizard.

Introduction

Web Object Wizard

WOW is a rapid application development (RAD) tool used for creating Web Applications that access AS/400 files and programs. WOW runs on top of IBM’s WebSphere application server or Apache’s Tomcat. Most programs require no or very little manual coding. For more complex applications, the WOW can provide a base functionality, which can be further customized by application designers using the industry standard Java programming language. Web applications are created by specifying SQL/JDBC statements. WOW generates and displays the results in HTML to the user’s browser.

WOW Application Example

For the demonstration, the AS/400 data used is stored in the EMPLOYEE table in the PJDATA library. For reference, use the table and field names in the below screen shot.

Chapter

2

Building the Application

Building the Application

This section describes how to define a DataEngine Application using the WOW

Starting WOW

You can download WOW or run it from PlanetJ’s servers. I recommend first running an example from the PlanetJ’s servers and then installing a copy on your servers.