Hi,

I'm pleased to announce the release of the system BOA Build Online 
Applications..

In short: BOA is a tool which helps you to create a webbased application 
without any knowledge of web technologies. You don't need to know anything 
about html, css, node, angular, react, ... You only use your existing 
tools to create an iAPI. You can create this with Xbase++ and re-use all 
your existing business logic and the same data as your Windows 
application.

You can find al the information about it on the website: https://www.boa-
platform.com. The documentation is a work in progress and will be finished 
by the end of the month.

In case of any questions, you can contact me, or post to the forum on the 
website.

Best regards,

Chris Andries

Hi Chris,

Woww, that looks amazing !
is there any downloadable demo of an iAPI or a small application, just to see what kind on code I would have to use to convert an existing desktop 
application into BOA ?

Thanks and congrats.
Edgar



Em 16/05/2019 10:17, Chris Andries escreveu:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm pleased to announce the release of the system BOA Build Online
> Applications..
> 
> In short: BOA is a tool which helps you to create a webbased application
> without any knowledge of web technologies. You don't need to know anything
> about html, css, node, angular, react, ... You only use your existing
> tools to create an iAPI. You can create this with Xbase++ and re-use all
> your existing business logic and the same data as your Windows
> application.
> 
> You can find al the information about it on the website: https://www.boa-
> platform.com. The documentation is a work in progress and will be finished
> by the end of the month.
> 
> In case of any questions, you can contact me, or post to the forum on the
> website.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Chris Andries
> 

Edgar Borger
Softsupply Informatica Ltda.
Rua Alagoas, 48
Sao Paulo, SP
01242-000
Tel   : (5511) 3159-1997
Email : softsupply@terra.com.br

>Woww, that looks amazing !

Thanks, glad you like it.

>is there any downloadable demo of an iAPI or a small application, just to 
see what kind on code I would have to use to convert an existing desktop 
>application into BOA ?


If you want to start with your own iAPI server, see the documentation. You 
can create your server with Xbase++ 2.0 or with Xb2net. The setup of the 
server is rather standard. 
Once your server is up and running, you can start BOA and enter user, 
password and your URL: eg. http://localhost:1234. At that moment a login 
request will be send to your server. You need to check that request, and 
send the response as explained in the documentation. See https://www.boa-
platform.com/documentation/2-1-login-request/ for the login request and 
the following topic for the response. This should be the start of your 
testing.

You asked what kind of code you need to use? Just Xbase++, nothing more. 
You will get a request accoring to your API. Suppose you have a table with 
customer data. Most likely you will create a function rest_customer(). In 
the API endpoint you will get the request as 
http://yourapiserver/customer/123. This means you need to open the 
customer table, go to the customer with ID=123, and returns the data in a 
json format. In this data you have al the customer data.

Besides the data BOA also need information about the layout of the form. 
I'm currently working on that part of the documentation.

To examine the system I would suggest to start the browser webtools with 
the F12 button. This way you can see which request is send to the iAPI, 
and what the response is. This will make it easier to understand how it 
works.

I will see to post some code on the forum on the BOA-platform website. 
This could also be helpfull for others.

Best regards,
Chris Andries.