• Web Connection User Guide
• Preface
• Notices
  • Trademarks
• About this book
  • Who this book is for
  • What's new?
    • VAST Platform 2021 (version 10.0.0)
  • Conventions used in this book
  • Tell us what you think
• Introduction to Web Connection
  • What you get with Web Connection
    • Web Connection parts
    • Web Server Interface
    • Application flow
    • URL format
      • Servlet interface URL
      • Server Smalltalk interface URL
      • CGI interface URL
      • Microsoft ISAPI interface URL
• 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 Microsoft Internet Server API (ISAPI)
    • Customizing the WSI configuration file
      • transport entry
      • link entry
      • verbose entry
      • log entry
      • errorfile entry
      • codepage entry
  • Setting Web browser launch options
  • Testing your installation
    • Test the Http server
    • Test the web server interface configuration
    • Setup and test your WSI and VA Smalltalk image configuration
    • Troubleshooting Hello, World!
    • Using the WSI monitor interface
      • The Servers page
        • Profiling using ENVY/Stats
        • Starting and Stopping Servers
      • The Parts page
      • The Info page
      • The Errors page
      • Starting a Web Connection image without a WSI monitor window
• 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
      • Defining hypertext links
    • Adding images
    • Building reusable composites
    • Resizing the page
  • Building forms
    • Creating a form
      • Setting up the form action
    • Adding parts to a form
      • Adding push buttons
  • 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
      • Which part do I use?
      • How do I use HTML page bookmarks?
      • Example: Adding Form Data to the To-do List
  • Preserving session data
    • What defines a session?
    • Setting up CGI Link Session Data
      • Example: Adding CGI Link Session Data to the To-do List
      • Clearing 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
      • Building the menu page
      • Building the router page
    • 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
    • Web Connection User Guide
    • Adding generic objects to a table
• Packaging a Web Connection application
  • Creating a runtime image
    • Including the AbtRunHtmlPageApp Application
    • Packaging an image with Web Connection image components
  • Setting up the runtime system
    • Server configuration file format
      • Starting an xml-tcp transport from a configuration file
• 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
  • Debugging
• Web Connection category
  • Visual Parts
    • Text
      • Text Properties
    • Image
      • Image Properties
        • Line Break
          • Line Break Properties
    • Paragraph
      • Paragraph Properties
    • Horizontal Rule
      • Horizontal Rule Properties
    • Applet
      • Applet Properties
    • Embed
      • Embed Properties
    • Grid
      • Grid Properties
    • Grid Column
      • Grid Column Properties
    • Grid Row
      • Grid Row Properties
    • Grid Cell
      • Grid Cell Properties
    • Table
      • Table Properties
    • Table Column
      • Table Column Properties
    • Script
      • Script Properties
    • Page
      • Page Properties
    • Frame Set Page
      • Frame Set Page Properties
    • Composite
      • Composite Properties
    • Layer
      • Layer Properties
    • Division
      • Division Properties
    • Style Sheet
      • Style Sheet Properties
  • Nonvisual parts
    • CGI Link Request
      • CGI Link Request Properties
    • CGI Link Session Data
      • CGI Link Session Data Properties
    • Cookie Wrapper
      • Cookie Wrapper Properties
    • Form Data
      • Form Data Properties
    • Page Wrapper
      • Page Wrapper Properties
• Web Form Parts category
  • Visual Parts
    • Form
      • Form Properties
    • Hidden Input
      • Hidden Input Properties
    • Push Button
      • Push Button Properties
    • Check Box
      • Check Box Properties
    • Radio Button Set
      • Radio Button Set Properties
    • Entry Field
      • Entry Field Properties
    • Multi-line Entry Field
      • Multi-line Entry Field Properties
    • List
      • List Properties
    • Multiple Select List
      • Multiple Select List Properties
    • Drop-down List
      • Drop-down List Properties
• Models category
  • Nonvisual Parts
    • Converter Filter
      • Converter Filter Properties
• Web Connection Windows
  • Web Connection Preferences Window
  • URL Window
  • HTML File Wrapper Generator Window
  • Color Window
• Index

Web Connection User Guide

Index