Deploying gICAPI assets with GAS

Using gICAPI web components through the GAS.

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

To simplify deployment of gICAPI web components with the GAS, consider using the fglgar utility. For more details, see Packaging web applications.

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";

If application.path is "/opt/var/gas/appdata/app/myapp", the HTML document will be found in:

/opt/var/gas/appdata/app/myapp/webcomponents/3DChart/3DChart.html

The above .xcf example shows the default value of the WEB_COMPONENT_DIRECTORY parameter that can be inherited by all application configuration nodes. If your gICAPI web component files are located under appdir/webcomponents, or if your programs use one of the standard Genero web components provided in $FGLDIR/webcomponents, there is no need to set the WEB_COMPONENT_DIRECTORY element in the .xcf file.