The Client Tools currently supports both ASP and ASP.NET generators that enable customers to create and run dynamic, interactive web server applications using IIS Web Server. The new JSP Generator provides a web based client solution using Apache based Web Servers that can run on any supported platform (for example, Windows, Linux, Unix, etc.).
The Java Server Page (JSP) Generator delivers the capability for customers to deploy browser-based applications to an Apache Tomcat Web server and compatible application server, thereby adhering to the Java Servlet 2.4 specification. The JSP generator is a plugin generator to the Component Enabler Generator Framework and it generates source files containing code that defines the HTML and JSP tags, and utilizes the J2EE framework for creating the browser interface.
The JSP Client applications include the following three distinct parts:
Client: A web page hosting the controls and the context menu.
Controller: The controller connects to the host application and navigates web pages.
Stylesheets: Style sheets render the page items with specific styles like control border style, colors, font style.
The JSP Web client generator takes a bundle of ispec and generates the following source files for each Ispec, which can be hosted on the web server.
One .jsp, IspecView.jsp page with associated .css stylesheet for each Ispec in the bundle.
One .jsp Web Page, HelpTeachView with associated .css stylesheet for each Teach screen in the bundle.
One IspecModel file.
For each bundle, the JSP Generator also generates one SelectIspec.jsp file that contains a list of Ispec file names.
The remaining files in the runtime infrastructure are common modules that are deployed along with the generated files.