Deploying gICAPI assets with GAS

When using the Genero Application Server, the gICAPI web component files must be deployed as part of the application program files.

The .xcf configuration file of your application can define the base path to search for HTML web component files. This base path is defined by the WEB_COMPONENT_DIRECTORY entry of the EXECUTION element:

<APPLICATION ...
 <EXECUTION>
  ...
  <WEB_COMPONENT_DIRECTORY>$(res.fgldir)/webcomponents;$(application.path)/webcomponents</WEB_COMPONENT_DIRECTORY>
  ...

While specific web component deployment directories can be defined in the .xcf file, consider using the recommended gICAPI web component directory layout.

Genero BDL provides a set of standard web components in FGLDIR/webcomponents, that can be found with the default as.xcf settings. If you want to use a standard Genero web component with the GAS, and you have defined a specific WEB_COMPONENT_DIRECTORY entry in your application .xcf configuration file, you must add $(res.fgldir)/webcomponents to the WEB_COMPONENT_DIRECTORY entry.

The HTML document must be located in a sub-directory below the base path, using the same name as defined by the COMPONENTTYPE attribute. As result, the complete path to the HTML document will be:

base-path/component-type/component-type.html

For example, if the form file defines the COMPONENTTYPE attribute as follows:

WEBCOMPONENT wc = FORMOMLY.mychart,
   COMPONENTTYPE = "3DChart";