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Visual Mashup Builder

AppliBuilder User Documentation

Troubleshooting Tips

AppliBuilder is built on a wide range of technologies, products, libraries, and moving parts. And being a new product, has not been debugged for many types of applications or combinations of these piece parts. We will try to document issues to watch for and other tips on this page as they arise.

We have not put much energy as yet into performance optimization. We'll get to that soon. Meanwhile, here are some issues we have encountered.

Basic Operations

Be sure to check your database key for the charts and livetable component. In some sample pages, a demo key has been provided that will not work with your database.
We anticipate trouble combining Scriptaculous and Rico widgets on the same page, due to incompatible versions of the same prototype library used by these libraries.

Performance Issues

It may not surprise you that you will need a very high speed connection between your browser and server. Without that, the tool will be unusable.

When using AppliBuilder with DataCaster, a major potentail performance issue is when the database is started/stopped with each request. Since DataCaster is designed to function as an embedded database, it supports this model - which is turned off by default. When using AppliBuilder make sure the db.delayed_shutdown_after_disconnect parameter is set to true in your serverprefs.xml in the conf dir.