Waltz@ESRF Programme

Waltz (Tango Web-frontend) training course at ESRF

Organized on 01/02/2019.

Slides

1. Introduction

2. Web/REST/Frontend

3. Tango REST Server

4. Waltz as a platform

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Course programme:

I. Waltz as a product overview (presentation + live demo) [1h]

• Introduction
• UI and Features overview
• Live demo
• Q&A

II. Waltz as a Tango web development platform [1,5h]

• Introduction in Web-frontend (presentation) [15']
• Server side overview (Tango REST API & rest-server) (presentation) [30']
• Client side overview (Waltz) (presentation) [45']

III. Workshop (practical exercises) [3h]

• Setup workspace
• Implementing custom widget
• Implementing custom application

IV. Advanced workshop [1,5h]

• Customizing application UI
• Server side debugging
• Security (LDAP + TAC)
• HTTP/2.0

V. Conclusions

VI. Q&A session

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Software requirements:

Debian 9 VM

For Waltz development:

• OpenJDK 8
• Java build tools: ant, maven
• IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition (may be used in trial mode for free)
• Apache Tomcat > 8.5 or 9 (standalone distribution i.e. not from debian repo)
• Chrome/Firefox

For testing and demos:

• Tango environment available through network or locally (TangoTest, TangoAccessControl, TangoDB)

For http2 (which is an advanced topic and maybe skipped based on the workshop's progress)

• libtcnative-2 (>1.2.14)