Glide stack

Glide is an extensible Web 2.0 development platform written in Java that facilitates rapid development of forms-based workflow applications (work orders, trouble ticketing, and project management, for example).

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User interface and Java packages

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Technologies used

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User Interface (browser)

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• AngularJS

• HTML

• CSS

• JavaScript

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GlideServlet com.glide.ui

com.glide.jelly

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Apache Jelly

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Business Rulescom.glide.script

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Mozilla Rhino

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Persistencecom.glide.db

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JDBC

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Name

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Attributes

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GlideServlet

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The primary driver of Glide, and the only servlet in the system, is found in GlideServlet.java.

• Handles inbound action requests

• Renders pages

• Merges data with forms

• Presents to user

• Interfaces with script layer

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Business Rules

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• ECMAScript implementation based on Mozilla Rhino

• Interfaces with persistence layer using JDBC recordset interface

• Merges persistence layer meta-data with data for easy correlation

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Persistence

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• Persistence means any store

  • RDBMS

  • LDAP

  • File system

• Uniform access regardless of store type

• Provides QUID and meta-data capabilities

• Interfaces presented to callers

  • RecordSet

  • TableDescriptor

  • ElementDescriptor

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Parent Topic:Glide class overview