Welcome to Skyway‘s Getting Started page. Now that you’ve acquired Skyway’s powerful, yet easy to use, application development tool, we will provide you with this overview so that you may see not only the broad functionality of the Skyway Builder tool, but also how you can use certain (or all) functions within Skyway Builder to accomplish even your most complex application development tasks. So that you may get started using Skyway Builder immediately, we’ve prepared these short video tours to help you get familiar with Builder’s high-level concepts and to show you how to use the software. Following the video tours, the Quick Start tutorial will guide you in building a simple application.
Note: Several components have been renamed throughout the Skyway product and in supporting documentation. While watching the following video tours, keep in mind the following changes:
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Previous Name |
Current Name |
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Skyway Platform |
Now called Skyway Visual Workspace |
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Repository |
Now called Model Manager. This is the product used to check-in and manage changes to Skyway Products. |
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Deploy |
Now called Director. Product used to deploy applications to production across an enterprise. |
The following seven video tours are intended to be viewed in sequence. Some of these videos may take several seconds to load.
This video tour will walk you through the functions available from the desktop.
Creating Projects with Skyway Builder
This video tour will walk you through creating, importing and exporting a project. It will show how to create data, logic and Web models.
Creating Data Models with Skyway Builder
This video tour will describe the data elements available to you and how to create them.
Creating Web Models with Skyway Builder
This video tour will describe how to create the UI for your end user service or application. It will also describe the features available in the UI editor.
Creating Logic Models with Skyway Builder
This video tour will describe how to create the backend logic for your user interface. You will also learn how to combine logic models with existing Java or Web services.
Deploying Projects with Skyway Builder
In this video tour you will learn how to deploy your project into your local domain.
Integration with Skyway Builder
In this video tour you will learn how to add external Java and Web services into your project. You will also learn how to add external data sources to your project.
This step-by-step guide will show you how to build a Skyway application. At the end of this exercise your project will be deployed to your local domain and the application will be available for real-time access by your end users.