Plex-XML

Plex-XML - A Dynamic Web Client Framework for Plex using XML and AJAX

Plex-XML is a framework delivering a cutting edge technology HTML client for Plex-generated Java applications. The Plex-XML framework enables Plex functions to deliver XML data instead of output parameters. This XML is then transformed into HTML (or PDF) using XSLT statements.

Technology

Plex-XML is following the concept of the model-view-controller pattern (MVC). This is based on the idea of splitting an application into separate layers. Plex-XML ist completely separating the business logic from the visual presentation. A configurable controller servlet links the other two layers together. Read more...

Features

• User centric HTML client layout
  • Language
  • Locale (formatting of dates and numbers)
  • Screen layout
  • Shortcuts

• Dynamically generated SQL statements
• XML output

• Security and auditing
  • Transaction save processing
  • Checked updates for web applications
  • Record change log
  • Secured fields against Web Parameter Tampering
  • Data oriented access control (e.g. public, enterprise, department, private)
  • Functional access control
  • User administration
    • Support of internal and LDAP (e.g. Active Directory) password validation
    • User groups for easy user maintenance
  • Debug logfiles for easy runtime and performance monitoring
• Release of asynchrony batch jobs
• Automatic e-mail out of the application
• Scheduled batch jobs for periodically executed jobs
• System Parameter
• Using a wiki as a help text system for your application
• Update‐Manager that takes care for database changes and SQL statements that need to be deployed automatically to different installations
• Pre-defined patterns
  • Documents management
  • File upload
  • Reporting integration
  • Activities
  • Tagging
  • Contact management
  • Data import
    • Request-list or import using external XML sources
    • Manually operated import of CSV or XML files

• Internationalization
  • Complete, database-assisted translation using a dictionary table
  • On-the-fly translation via Google-Dictionary-API into 52 languages
  • User-individual localization of the date, time and number formats
  • UTF‐8 support