By calling functions directly from the component or the server API. Rogue Wave® Server libraries offer a variety of functions enabling a user to open views from a component or from an object server, each using a different way to identify the (main) origin object: server object address, server object label, associated representation object, or representation object attribute.

Via a connection panel. A specific server library based on Rogue Wave Views provides such a graphic panel, which implements the API view-opening functions transparently. You can open a view by selecting the label associated with a server object and by selecting the view name.

By navigating through hyper-references. A hyper-reference is an attribute of a representation object. Selecting a hyper-reference to create views is much like selecting a hyper-reference from the HTTP protocol to load Web pages. A hyper-reference lets you identify a server object and a view type on this object. When a hyper-reference is selected in a representation, the server interprets it, that is, creates, if necessary, a new view with the server object as its origin and triggers the creation of a new representation on the component.