EWD Python Tutorial Part 1

Developing Ajax Applications using EWD and Python
Tutorial: Part 1
Chapter 1: Introduction
Background
Enterprise Web Developer (EWD) is a framework for developing and running sophisticated and
secure Ajax applications. EWD's key design objective was extremely rapid and simple
development, combined with extremely easy maintenance, making it the most productive Ajax
development platform currently available.
EWD differs markedly from most of the most well-known Ajax frameworks in that it eschews the
programmer-orientated Model/View Controller(MVC) paradigm and instead places the designer at
the focus of the development process, with programming reduced to a relatively trivial aspect of the
overall process. The majority of the work that would be required in an MVC-based framework is
automated in EWD, leaving the development team able for focus their time and efforts on
describing what the application should do rather than how works.
This tutorial aims to demonstrate how quickly and easily an Ajax application can be developed
using EWD. EWD applications can be developed using a variety of languages, and this tutorial
focuses on the use of Python.
Prerequisites
You'll need a Linux system with GT.M and EWD installed. The quickest and easiest way to do this
is to use the M/DB Installer ( http://gradvs1.mgateway.com/main/index.html?
path=mdb/mdbDownload ). The M/DB Appliance that the installer builds includes a pre-configured,
ready to run EWD and GT.M ...