WebDSL Eclipse plugin
The WebDSL Eclipse plugin is now available, it includes the WebDSL compiler.
The plugin will be used in the Model-Driven Software Development course for Computer Science MSc students at Delft University of Technology.
If you encounter any issues, or want to give feedback, please use the mailing list:
https://mailman.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/listinfo/webdsl
by Danny Groenewegen at 2 Feb 2010 14:59
The Big Scheme of Things: Episode 1
"The Big Scheme of Things" is a series of screencasts that illustrates the use of WebDSL, by building a (to-do list) web application from scratch. In the first episode I keep it really simple and create a single page app that allows us to add and remove tasks. First I show how to get an even simpler "Hello web!" app running.
http://blog.eelcovisser.net/index.php?/archives/115-The-Big-Scheme-of-Things-Episode-1.html
by Eelco Visser at 21 Sep 2009 20:39
root() is the new home()
The main entry point of applications used to be the home() page, but has been renamed to root(), which maps to the / URL. E.g. for an application that is deployed to http://localhost:8080/myapp, the URL http://localhost:8080/myapp/ now dispatches the root() page instead of redirecting to the /home page, which it did before.
If your application does not have a page named root, with no arguments defined, it will give an error message.
by Zef Hemel at 20 Aug 2009 11:15
Unicode
WebDSL applications now (svn revision 2922) explicitly use Unicode (utf-8) characters instead of relying on defaults (which often resulted in latin-1, e.g. in a Mysql database). A tool is provided to convert old databases:
1 backup your database (in case the script needs a fix) with:
mysqldump -u dbuser -p dbname > file
2 install the new webdsl and run:
webdsl cleanall build convert-to-unicode
3 deploy the webdsl app:
webdsl deploy
Some random characters: Ωжன்其भुῶنَб
by Danny Groenewegen at 19 Aug 2009 11:35
New Style
Uploaded a new style for WebDSL.org today. Although WebDSL has some styling abstractions, this was done using a custom CSS. WebDSL templates are automatically surrounded by spans with the template name as class, so it is easy to hook CSS to specific templates.
by Danny Groenewegen at 17 Jul 2009 17:22
Acoda
Released a data migration tool to automatically migrate WebDSL databases along evolving WebDSL applications. Acoda takes two versions of a WebDSL application and a WebDSL database as input and yields a new WebDSL database conforming to the new application.
by Sander Vermolen at 28 May 2009 12:34
New WebDSL.org
Welcome to the new WebDSL.org. This site will be the main source of information about WebDSL, a domain-specific language for developing dynamic web applications with a rich data model.
by Danny Groenewegen at 30 Mar 2009 23:30