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Servoy can be extended in various ways:

  1. Plugins
  2. Beans
  3. Direct Custom Java code calling
  4. WAR file deployment

 

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what about Inclusion of javascript libraries/components (in MobileClient)

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To make beans for Web and SmartClient the IServoyBeanFactory can be utilized, see the source of the DBTreeView bean (which is shipping with Servoy)

Custom Java

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In Smart and WebClient its possible to call any static Java method, like

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Besides default extensions shipping with Servoy, many Third-party extensions are available at ServoyForge.

WAR file deployment

Since Servoy incorporates Apache Tomcat its possible to deploy .war (Web Application Resource) in application_server/server/webapps.  

These .war files can also be uploaded via the Servoy admin page via "Upload Library"

When a war requires database access, it's possible to get a database as datasource via JNDI, all the database servers are exposed in the global JNDI scope as "jdbc/dbservername" and should be accessed in current context via a <resource-ref>, see Tomcat manual for more details.