PAWS

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PAWS

• Penn State Administrative Web Suite

Eric Helfen
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Overview of Presentation

• What is PAWS
• Tour of Current Functionality
• Creating New PAWS Functions
• Questions

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What is PAWS?

• PAWS is...
• A web application
• A central launch point for a diverse collection
  of administrative functions and applications.
• Built on a framework so developers can spend
  their time solving business problems.

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PAWS Tour

• PAWS

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Creating New PAWS Functions (external)

• Use existing PAWS Function Maintenance command to
  create an entry in the PAWS DB.
• Fill in meta data and link.
• Youre done!

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Creating New PAWS Functions (internal)

• Create code (Java, jsp etc.)
• Use Function Entry Create a new entry in the PAWS
  DB.
• You're done!

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Hello World Java (back end)

• public class HelloWorldDisplayCommand extends
  Command
• public HelloWorldDisplayCommand()
• this.setModel(new HelloWorldModel())
• this.setViewHelper(new ViewHelper())
• this.setView("/example/HelloWorld.jsp")
• public void checkAuthorized(HttpServletRequest
  request)
• throws NotAuthorizedException, PawsException
• String userIdgetUserSession().getUserID()
• if( userId.equals("tosd6"))
• throw new NotAuthorizedException("I don't like "
  userId " and won't say hello!")

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Hello World JSP (front end)

• ltdiv id"content"gt
• ltdiv id"main"gt
• Hello World!
• lt/divgt lt!-- main --gt
• lt/divgt lt!-- content --gt

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What about all the Hard Stuff?

• PAWS has numerous built in capabilities to
  simplify programming.
• Application flow control
• Error handling
• Logging
• User messaging
• Partially pre-built presentation layer
• Security
• Search
• And much more
• What all this means is developers don't need to
  spend their time creating a safe, stable
  environment for an application to run in. 
  Developers only need to create the desired
  business functionality.

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Questions

• Contact InformationEric Helfen863-1465ejh122_at_p
  su.edu