Anatomy of a Solution

This chapter provides an overview of the anatomy of a Servoy solution.

Solution  

In Servoy an application is called a Solution and as such is a container for business logic and UI.

UI

A UI in Servoy is called a Form.  

Business logic

The business logic, made up of variables and methods, is is organized in scopes. A solution has three distinct scope levels:

Application scope:
A solution has one application scope (also referred to as Top Level scope). This scope contains all the predefined scripting libraries that come with Servoy and also contains a customizable scope called "globals" in which custom business logic can be placed that should be accessible through the solution 

Datasource scope:
Below the application scope come the datasource scopes. In general each table (or view) in a database to which the solution has access is considered a datasource. In the datasource scope extensions to the datasource can be defined, in the form of table events and calculations 

Form scope:
Each form has it's own scope for business logic. If a Form is tied to a datasource, the Form scope extends from the datasource scope

Form

In Servoy a UI is called a Form. Forms consist of Form parts and the parts contain elements, like labels, buttons and fields.

Forms can have three different layouts:

Record View:

List View:

Table View:

Abstract forms

Inheritance

Element

Media

Scripting API

application:

solutionModel:
The SolutionModel class exposes all scripting API related to the on-the-fly generation and modification at runtime of the 

databaseManager:

utils:

history:

security:

i18n:

servoyException:

jsunit:

plugins:

Data layer