The Building Services with Skyway Builder tutorial will guide you through building and deploying UI Services and Business Services with Skyway Builder.
Skyway recommends that you view our video tours on the Getting Started page before beginning the tutorial.
Skyway Builder enables the rapid development of enterprise application services. These services are defined as both web-based applications and web services. Using graphical representations of meta-data, Skyway Builder lets you build these web-based applications and services and then deploy them to an application server, which provides a runtime environment for the services.
Skyway Builder facilitates the complete development process involved with creating a web-based application by defining the business logic, web interface, and application flow needed to create and modify these applications. Using Skyway Builder, you can quickly and efficiently develop stand-alone web applications or web components for integration into other applications.
Skyway Builder also provides resources for accessing services from other applications that may be available via web services, database integration, or Java-based APIs.
As business rules change or functional requirements evolve, applications built with Skyway Builder can be easily adapted with minimal technical expertise. Skyway Builder can easily make hosted business processes available as web services. Using the same functionality and easy-to-use graphical interface when developing web-based applications, Skyway Builder can also orchestrate services from other applications that may be available via web services, database integration, and Java-based APIs.
This tutorial assumes that you have installed Skyway Builder. If you have not, please refer to the Skyway Builder Installation Guide for instructions.
If you encounter technical difficulties or are unable to complete the tutorial, please contact Skyway Support by sending an email to support@skywaysoftware.com.
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The completed version of the entire Project created in this tutorial is also available upon request.
The goal of this tutorial is to provide a step-by-step example of building services with Skyway Builder. While it is intentionally limited in scope, it exposes new users to Skyway Builder's coding-free development environment.
The project will implement a set of services related to a Company Directory, including:
a UI-based service for administering and searching the directory
an RPC-based service for other applications to search the directory
The Company Directory application is comprised of only two UI pages: Company List and Company Edit. The Company List page displays a list of companies that have been created within the application and allows the end-user to search for a specific company by name. The Company Edit page allows an end-user to create a new company or update information for an existing company within the application.
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