1. Mental Model

Before any worked example, the conceptual map.

The framework is module-driven: every screen a PM creates and every screen a customer sees is a row in gdsmodule joined to layout rows in gdsconfigformmaster/slave, permission rows in gdsjurisdiction, and stored procedures invoked through BusinessBaseController in the runtime.

At a glance

flowchart TB
    classDef oos stroke-dasharray:5 5,color:#999

    BACK["BACK<br/>builder UI"]
    FROUNT["FROUNT<br/>customer UI"]
    EXT([External integrators])
    HOOKS([Third-party webhooks])

    subgraph framework [Framework runtime - in scope]
        XENTRY[xlyEntry]
        XAPI[xlyApi]
        XIF[xlyInterface]
        XFLOW[xlyFlow]
        XPLC[xlyPlc]
        XMSG[/"xlyMsg<br/>library"/]
    end

    DB[("MySQL<br/>xlyweberp_*")]
    REDIS[(Redis)]
    AMQ([ActiveMQ])
    XEJMSC[xlyErpJmsConsumer]
    PLAT[("xlyPlat* modules<br/>+ MongoDB")]:::oos

    BACK --> XENTRY
    FROUNT --> XENTRY
    FROUNT --> XAPI
    EXT --> XAPI
    HOOKS --> XIF

    XENTRY --> DB
    XAPI --> DB
    XIF --> DB
    XFLOW --> DB
    XPLC --> DB

    XENTRY -- "@CacheEvict on save<br/>(synchronous)" --> REDIS
    XENTRY <-- "cache reads<br/>+ Shiro session" --> REDIS
    XAPI <--> REDIS

    XENTRY -- "domain events<br/>(NOT cache invalidation)" --> AMQ
    AMQ --> XEJMSC
    XEJMSC -- "PRO_ERPMERGEBASE*<br/>base-data merge" --> DB

    XENTRY -. uses .-> XMSG
    XIF -. uses .-> XMSG

    PLAT -.-> DB

The dashed cluster (xlyPlat* + MongoDB) is the B2B printing-platform tier — present in the build, but out of scope for this wiki.

Note the two distinct paths between the runtime and Redis/ActiveMQ: @CacheEvict is synchronous in the saving process and clears the shared Redis store directly (cross-node coherence works through the shared store). The JMS path is a separate base-data merge channel, not cache invalidation — ConsumerChangeGdsModuleThread runs PRO_ERPMERGEBASEGDSMODULE and similar procs. Both are documented in cache invalidation on metadata change.

For the library inventory behind each box, see the Tech stack page.

Concept pages

These pages are intentionally short — each one explains one concept, with links to the vertical slices that exercise it. Concepts pages should stay short; if one grows past a screenful, that's a sign the content wants to be a slice instead.

• The data-driven thesis — why the framework looks the way it does.
• Modules, forms, virtual tables — the three core nouns.
• Master / slave document pattern — header/lines, everywhere.
• No-FK, semantic-FK reality — how relations actually work.
• Two customization channels — metadata edits vs. SQL scripts.
• Customization layers — within Channel 1, how base / per-tenant / per-user overlays merge.
• Multi-tenancy and product editions — row scoping (sBrandsId, sSubsidiaryId) plus licence-gated module discovery.
• The metadata-driven request lifecycle — the diagram you'll come back to.
• The three API tiers — internal (xlyEntry), external (xlyApi), inbound webhooks (xlyInterface).