Sprint 15 Review: Codecamp

Alexander Suter

JSF & XHTML Completion and Validation in VSCode - @Jens Hartmann
Database Import Wizard Improvements - @Reto Weiss
Smart NEO - @Lukas Giger
Code Camp Overview - @Reto Weiss
New & Noteworthy
Bugfixes

Jens Hartmann

JSF & XHTML Completion and Validation in VSCode

Audience

Process Developers

Value

New web based Editor to edit HTML Dialog JSF *.xhtml files.
We are at a very early stage and have designed a xhtml editor that can currently be used our VS Code Designer.
The following features are already supported yet:

textDocument/codeAction → e.g. when tag has no close tag, return codeAction to add close tag
textDocument/completion → e.g. get completions for Tags or Attributes (<p:input… or attributes of tag)
textDocument/hover → Hover hints about tags and attributes
textDocument/rangeFormatting → Format a specific selection
textDocument/documentHighlight → e.g. cursor on open tag highlights closing tag
textDocument/documentLink → show links in document (url, logic, dataclass)
textDocument/foldingRanges → Return folding ranges of document
textDocument/formatting → Format the whole document
textDocument/rename → e.g. rename a tag also renames the closing tag

Discussion

Feedback?

Next steps

Fix technical depths from using lemminx
Add quickfixes for CMS, data, and logic to the XHTML/JSF LSP
Add validation for EL for the XHTML/JSF LSP
Add EL completion for the XHTML/JSF LSP
Add JSF and Ivy components for the XHTML/JSF LSP
Add namespace, tag, attribute completion for the XHTML/JSF LSP

Screenshots / Code

Hoover

Completion

EL completion

Validation

Reto Weiss

Database Import Wizard Improvements

You can now select specific columns of a table entity for which attributes will be generated in the database import wizard

Audience

Process Developers

Value

More control over the generated entity class

Discussion

What is a good name for the action "Database from Import"? E.g. "Retrieve from Database", "Create from Database"

Next steps

Generation of HTML Dialog Forms

Screenshots / Code

Lukas Giger

Smart NEO/Smart Core

After our efforts in the Code Camp to Teach an LLM how to Generate Axon Ivy Business Processes, we continued our journey and improved the resulting product even further.
An MCP Server that can be bundled with the Axon Ivy Engine will allow an MCP Client (such as VSCode Copilot) to understand and work with Axon Ivy specific resources, such as processes, data classes, and forms.
An alpha version can already be used. Check the installation guide for more details.

Audience

Low-coders
Project developers

Value

Improve efficiency when working on projects
Use natural language to describe requirements and intent
Flatten learning curve by utilizing Copilot

Next steps

Analyze requirements more thoroughly
- Use cases
- Capabilites

Screenshots / Code

Generating a process

{Process Generation}

Generating a form for the process

{Form Generation}

Reto Weiss

Code Camp Overview

Performance Hunting

@Jens Hartmann and @Christian Strebel tried to find the performance bottlenecks of an Axon Ivy Engine - https://community.axonivy.com/d/1099-performance-hunting

Lightweight Project Build Plugin

Building an Axon Ivy Project should work without downloading an Axon Ivy Engine. @Louis Müller started to work on this - https://community.axonivy.com/d/1098-towards-a-lightweight-project-build-plugin

Smart Axon Ivy

@Reguël Wermelinger and @Lukas Giger has started to teach the AI how to generate Axon Ivy Business Processes - https://community.axonivy.com/d/1096-teaching-an-llm-how-to-generate-axon-ivy-business-processes

Case Map Revamp

Case Map is going to be cool with the help of @Elio Di Puma and @Fabian Heuberger - https://community.axonivy.com/d/1094-case-map-revamp

Leave Eclipse and try hard with SQLite

Highly technical subject. Eliminating Eclipse Framework Usages in our code base so that we can finally leave the Eclipse Platform. Side-Topic trying to integrate SQLite as alternative of HSQLDB. Explored by @Alexander Suter - https://community.axonivy.com/d/1097-leave-eclipse-and-try-hard-with-sqlite

Workspace Validation for Axon Ivy Projects in VS Code

@Reto Weiss designed a new validation framework which is independent of an IDE which can be integrated in VSCode - https://community.axonivy.com/d/1095-workspace-validation-for-axon-ivy-vs-code-extension

Style Framework

@Lukas Lieb tried out a new style framework called Tailwind, which should ease the implementation of new UI components in the core - https://community.axonivy.com/d/1088-style-framework

Alexander Suter

New & Noteworthy

Public API to generate Links for static JSF Pages

XIVY-17487: Add function to create static JSF pages links in HtmlDialogContext

// Returns a {@link WebLink} to a custom static JSF page.
ivy.html.viewLink("myView.xhtml");

// The application home page is the entry point
ivy.html.appHomeLink();

// Returns the base URL of the application (e.g. {@code <baseUrl>/myapp/}).
ivy.html.appBaseLink();

// Return the base URL of the security context (e.g. {@code <baseUrl>/mySecurityContext/}).
ivy.html.baseLink(); 

// Returns a {@link WebLink} to the security context home page. (e.g. {@code <baseUrl>/mySecurityContext/go/home}).
ivy.html.homeLink();

currently needed by @Timo Rupp for Cloud Console

PrimeFaces Dialog Framework Integration improved

XIVY-17282: Enable PrimeFaces Dialog Framework Usage Within JSF Composite Components
XIVY-17251: Form Data Table use Dialog Framework for Edit Dialog
XIVY-17063: DataTable with an Edit Dialog fails after extracting the data table to an own component
XIVY-17493: Enhance Edit Dialog of DataTable to also support using components inside

VSCode Integration improved

XIVY-17417: Deploy IAR dependency if not contained in the workspace

javax to jakarta Migration

XIVY-17385: Migrate javax.inject to jakarta.inject and Guice 6.0 to 7.0

import javax.inject.Inject

will be migrated to:

import jakarta.inject.Inject

Microsoft SQL Server 2025

XIVY-16858: Support Microsoft SQL Server 2025 for system database

Alexander Suter

Bugfixes

XIVY-17531: Entra ID directory browser in Engine Cockpit only lists the first 100 member nodes
XIVY-17507: CaseMapRuntimeService can't find CaseMaps in required projects
XIVY-17243: Ivy Licence-File cannot be read without linebreak at EOF