WAM005 - Create Your First WAM

Objectives

• To create your first Web Application Module (WAM) and become familiar with the LANSA Editor's Design view.

• To create a WebRoutine in your Web Application Module. You will create a WebRoutine that will use different weblets to call itself. It will display a different message depending on which weblet is used.

• To understand the basics of how the WEB_MAP command is used within a WebRoutine (covered in much more detail in WAM010 - Using WEB_MAPs).

• To introduce you to re-entrant programming.

• To compile a Web application that was created using a WAM.

• To understand the compile/generate cycle of WAM development.

To achieve these objectives, you will complete the following steps:

Step 1. Start Visual LANSA

Step 2. Create a WAM

Step 3. Create the ReentryTest WebRoutine

Step 4. Compile the WAM

Step 5. Open the Design view

Step 6. Editing

Step 7. Use a Weblet

Step 8. Make STDRENTRY visible for testing

Step 9. Test the WAM

Step 10. Hide STDRENTRY

Summary

Before you Begin

In order to complete this exercise, the demonstration Personnel System must have been installed in this partition.

In order to create a WAM:

• You must use an RDMLX Enabled Development partition.

• Field Types such as Date and Time must also be enabled in the partition.

• The partition must be web enabled.

• You must have a valid LANSA Web license to develop with WAMs.

For details, refer to the LANSA for i User Guide and the Web Administrator Guide.