Web Connection User's Guide


Table of Contents

Notices

  • Trademarks
  • About this book

  • What this book includes
  • Who this book is for
  • About this feature
  • What's new in this version?
  • Conventions used in this book
  • Introduction to Web Connection

  • What you get with Web Connection
  • Web Connection parts
  • Web Server Interface
  • Application flow
  • URL format
  • Setting up Web Connection

  • Setting up the Web Connection server interface
  • Setting up the Servlet interface
  • Setting up the Server Smalltalk interface
  • Setting up for CGI
  • Setting up for the IBM Internet Connection API (ICAPI)
  • Setting up for Microsoft Internet Server API (ISAPI)
  • Setting up for Netscape Server (NSAPI)
  • Customizing the WSI configuration file
  • Setting Web browser launch options
  • Testing your installation
  • Test the Http server
  • Test the web server interface configuration
  • Setup and test your WSI and VisualAge image configuration
  • Troubleshooting Hello, World!
  • Using the WSI monitor interface
  • Building a Web Connection application

  • A Hello World application
  • An input and reply sample application
  • Building the input page
  • Building the reply page
  • Building pages with the Web Connection visual parts

  • Working with the visual parts
  • Building basic pages
  • Creating a page
  • Adding text
  • Adding images
  • Building reusable composites
  • Resizing the page
  • Building forms
  • Creating a form
  • Adding parts to a form
  • Using divisions
  • Using layers
  • Using framesets
  • Using style sheets
  • Adding scripts
  • Example: Building the To-do List interface
  • Coding HTML directly
  • Using tables for page layout

  • Selecting grids, cells, rows, and columns
  • Adding and deleting rows and columns
  • Adding parts to a grid
  • Using the nonvisual parts

  • Retrieving form data
  • Setting up Form Data
  • Preserving session data
  • What defines a session?
  • Setting up CGI Link Session Data
  • Using Cookies
  • Connecting to the nonvisual parts
  • Example: Making the To-do List work
  • Processing requests
  • Accessing request data
  • Routing requests to different pages
  • Example: Routing requests
  • Using multiple pages in the same part
  • Using Web Connection with other HTML Builders

  • Setting up the HTML File Wrapper
  • Generating the HTML file wrapper
  • Using the AbtHtmlFileWrapper subclass
  • Caching HTML pages
  • Using Form Data
  • Static form data
  • Dynamic form data
  • Using Session Data
  • Making Changes to the Page Layout, File Name, or Path
  • Page layout changes
  • File name or absolute path changes
  • Working with database queries

  • Setting up a table
  • Setting up a multi-row table manually
  • Setting up a multi-row table with Quick HTML
  • Displaying single-row queries
  • Adding selection tables and selection columns
  • Adding generic objects to a table
  • Packaging a Web Connection application

  • Creating a runtime image
  • Setting up the runtime system
  • Server configuration file format
  • Using Web Connection for server applications

  • Setting up Web Connection for OS/390
  • Setting up the ICAPI web server interface
  • Running a VisualAge Smalltalk web application
  • More information about VisualAge Smalltalk web applications and OS/390
  • Tools

  • Viewing generated HTML
  • Envy/Stats
  • Advanced topics

  • Accessing request information
  • AbtAppBldrHtmlPage instance methods
  • AbtWsiTransaction instance methods
  • AbtWsiRequest instance methods
  • AbtWsiResponse instance methods
  • Session data
  • Generating HTML from Smalltalk
  • Error handling
  • AbtWsiConfiguration class methods
  • AbtAbtBldrHtmlPage class methods
  • Web Connection category

  • Visual Parts
  • Text
  • Image
  • Line Break
  • Paragraph
  • Horizontal Rule
  • Applet
  • Embed
  • Grid
  • Grid Column
  • Grid Row
  • Grid Cell
  • Table
  • Table Column
  • Script
  • Page
  • Frame Set Page
  • Composite
  • Layer
  • Division
  • Style Sheet
  • Nonvisual parts
  • CGI Link Request
  • CGI Link Session Data
  • Cookie Wrapper
  • Form Data
  • Page Wrapper
  • Web Form Parts category

  • Visual Parts
  • Form
  • Hidden Input
  • Push Button
  • Check Box
  • Radio Button Set
  • Entry Field
  • Multi-line Entry Field
  • List
  • Multiple Select List
  • Drop-down List
  • Models category

  • Nonvisual Parts
  • Converter Filter
  • Web Connection Windows

  • Web Connection Preferences Window
  • URL Window
  • HTML File Wrapper Generator Window
  • Color Window
  • Index


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