XEO Web Components - Introducing the API

In the previous chapters you generated viewers using XEO Studio's Scaffolding tool and went through an explanation of the basics of XEO Viewers as well as customized an edit viewer for the LIB_Book Object Model. In this chapter we'll introduce the Java API to use when creating your own custom viewers and beans, before that, however, you should create some instances of Object Models so that some of things you'll do in this chapter are visible.

Go the Main_Library.xvw viewer and add an entry for the list viewer of the LIB_Publisher Object Model with the following code:

<xvw:menu text='Publishers'
value="{viewerName:'LIB_Publisher/list.xvw', boql:select LIB_Publisher}"
target='Tab' serverAction="#{viewBean.listObject}" icon='resources/LIB_Publisher/ico16.gif'/>

And create a publisher with the following information:

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