Rich UI Inter-Program Communication

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Rich UI Inter-Program Communication
Course
Units

• Creating an end-to-end RESTful Service

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? Create an End-to-End EGL Web Service using
REST only

• From your EGLWeb project
• Create a new Service part in the
  \EGLSource\services\ folder, named
  RUIRestServices
• (remember to start Tomcat)
• Be sure to check
• ? Create as WEB (REST) service ?
• Here is the service code
• You can either code this from scratch, or
  copy/paste this function from the Slide Notes
• When youve saved and all syntax errors are
  cleaned up
• From Project Explorer,
• Generate the entire EGLWeb project
• This action will also deploy your EGL Rest
  Service to Tomcat

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? Consume an End-to-End EGL Web Service using
REST only --- Client

• In the Project Explorer, right-mouse click your
  service and then click on
• EGL Services
• Extract Interface
• In the wizard, select the EGLSource folder in
  the RUI Projecti.e. EGLRichUI
• Create a new RUI Handler called
  RUIRestServiceTest in the mysamples package
• Copy the RUI code fromthe Slide Notes
• All EGL REST services use this pattern
• http//ltServergtltPortNumbergt/ltProjectNamegt
• /restservices/ltServiceNamegt
• Note If you are seeing errors, make sure to
• Generate your service project
• Run your service on Tomcat

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? Create an End-to-End EGLWeb Service using REST
only
After copy\pasting the REST Service code into the
editor, press CTRL S to Save, then select the
preview tab
Note You will have 2 projects A service
project that is deployed on TOMCAT A RUI project
that invokes the service using an interface