TIBCO General Interface provides powerful tools and a framework to craft AJAX-based web applications that rival desktop applications in performance and usability. This is the only book that offers developers thorough guidance for using TIBCO’s award-winning open source tools to build interactive, high-performance GUIs and integrate them with leading server-side technologies. Experienced TIBCO General Interface developer Anil Gurnani focuses on applying General Interface in real-world production applications and presents numerous working examples that can easily be adapted for your existing sites and applications.

You’ll first walk through the fundamental concepts and techniques needed to build powerful General Interface clients. Next, you’ll dive into specific back-end technologies, mastering them through start-to-finish case study projects. Finally, drawing on his own experience building enterprise-class General Interface applications for the financial services industry, Gurnani illuminates advanced topics ranging from charting and collaboration

to application optimization. Coverage includes

Integrating XML and XSL with TIBCO General Interface’s XML Mapping utility
Extending General Interface widgets with object-oriented JavaScript
Integrating with web services, databases, portals, and messaging systems: start-to-finish case study sample applications
Integrating General Interface applications into service-oriented enterprises using Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Using OpenAJAX Hub (TIBCO PageBus) to simplify collaboration among GUI components

Anil Gurnani’s book greatly augments the available information for developers learning and using TIBCO’s General Interface. …With this book, you will quickly be building General Interface applications, faster and easier than ever before.

—Michael Peachey, co-founder of General Interface and Director of User Experience, TIBCO Software

Anil Gurnani has written extensively on technical topics for many prestigious magazines. He is an adjunct at SCPS, New York University, where he teaches advanced courses focused on web and enterprise technologies including Core Java, JEE, and .NET. He is also an expert at managing large, global, multifunctional teams to architect and build complex distributed systems with a portfolio of front-end applications and back-end services.

About the CD-ROM The accompanying CD-ROM contains all source code files for working examples. Updated code and additional resources are available on a companion website.

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Foreword by Michael Peachey

Foreword by Luke Birdeau

Introduction

Chapter 1 What Is TIBCO General Interface?

Tools and Utilities

Web Application Model

TIBCO General Interface Application

General Interface’s Performance Edge

Compiler in the Browser

Rapid Prototyping Tool

Chapter 2 Understanding General Interface Architecture

Model View Controller Architecture

General Interface Application Life Cycle

Application Object Model

Common Data Format

JavaScript Framework

JavaScript API

Commonly Used Classes

Application Controller

Cache

Custom Classes in JavaScript for General Interface

XSL Style Sheets

Value Templates

XML Transformers

Chapter 3 Quick Start TIBCO General Interface

Building and Packaging Standalone Prototypes

Installing TIBCO General Interface

Launching GI Builder

Internet Explorer 7 on Windows

Mozilla Firefox on Windows

Mozilla Firefox on Macintosh

GI Workspace

Building the Application

Deploying General Interface Applications

Deploying the Application as a Standalone Prototype

Deploying the Application Under IIS

Deploying the Application Under Apache Web Server

Deploying the Application Under Tomcat

Deploying the Application as a WAR File Under Tomcat

Chapter 4 Working with XML and XSL

XML Transformers

XML/XSL Merge Tool

XML Mapping Utility

Chapter 5 Component Gallery

Component Categories

System Components

Block

Containers

Form Elements

Matrix

Menus and Toolbars

Miscellaneous

Component Properties

Chapter 6 Sharing Assets Across Multiple Applications

Advantages of Sharing Components

Shared Components in General Interface

Building Shared Components with GI Builder

Sample Applications

Building the Announcements Panel

Building the Customer Service Panel

Building the Ad Banner

Building the Custom Tabbed Pane

Editing Component XML Files

Building the Banking Application

Building the Investing Application

Chapter 7 Object-Oriented JavaScript—Extending General Interface Widgets

Prototype Inheritance

Defining Classes in General Interface

Defining Interfaces in General Interface

Defining Packages in General Interface

General Interface Event Model

Best Practices

Directory Structure

JavaScript Files

Dynamic Class Loading

Application-Level Events

Sample Code

MultiSelectMenu

Building a Sample Using MultiSelectMenu

Chapter 8 Advanced Features of Matrix

Rendering Tabular Data

Rendering a Tree Structure

Using XML Transformers

Using Value Templates

Using Format Handlers

Displaying Controls in Columns

Available Controls in Matrix Columns

Manipulating Data Dynamically

Commonly Used Methods of the Matrix Class

Sample Applications

Chapter 9 Integrating with Web Services

Web Services Related Standards

General Interface and Web Services

Building a Web Service

Using Java

Using .NET

Deploying a Web Service

Deploying Under Axis2 in Tomcat

Deploying Under IIS

Developing a Web Service Client Using General Interface

Building GUI Screens for the Sample General Interface Client

Mapping the Response to CDF Document

Mapping Input Fields to Request Messages

Chapter 10 Integrating with Portals

Anatomy of a Portal

Portal Value Proposition

Aggregation of Content from Various Applications and Sources

Federated Search Across All Data Sources

Entitlements

Private Labeling and Branding

Personalization

Common Infrastructure

Global Reach

High Availability

Support, Operations, and Monitoring

Architectural Considerations

Use of General Interface Framework

GI Cache Utilization

Namespaces

Entering and Leaving the Page

Minimizing Asynchronous Calls

Versions of General Interface

Using <iframe> Tags

Using <div> and <span> Tags

Using JSR 168

Installing JBoss Portal

Deploying GI Portlets to JBoss Portal

Chapter 11 Integrating with Databases

Building the Client

Setting Up the Database

Integrating Using .NET

Integrating Using J2EE

Building a Master/Detail Sample Application

Building a Paginated Grid Example

Chapter 12 Integrating with Messaging Systems

Architectural Considerations

Browser Resources

Number of Pending Requests

Push Versus Pull

Server-Side Thread

Server-Side State

Message Transformation

Message Filtering

AJAX-Based Solution Using TIBCO General Interface

Installing ActiveMQ

Rolling Grid Example

Building the Client

Building the Complete Application Using Eclipse

Publish Subscribe Example

Chapter 13 Integrating with SOA and ESBs

Overview of ESB

OASIS and OSOA

JBI and SCA

SCA-Based Solutions

JBI-Based Solutions

TIBCO Active Matrix

Instaling TIBCO Active Matrix

Active Matrix Environment

Active Matrix Service Example

Consuming the Response from an AMX Service in General Interface

Chapter 14 Creating Charts in General Interface

Charting Components in General Interface

Building the StockPrice Example

Building the Web Application

Chapter 15 Using TIBCO PageBus

What Is PageBus?

Obtaining PageBus

Publishing Messages

Subscribing to Messages

Using the Store/Query Interface

Building the Sample Application

Chapter 16 Optimizing Performance

Measuring Performance

Using the Debug Version

Enabling Logging in General Interface

Viewing Benchmark Logs

Identifying and Eliminating Redundant Calls to Render

Using Asynchronous Loading

Using Dynamic Class Loading

Using the Merge Tool

Preferring XSLT over JavaScript

Using Paging Models in Matrix

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