Creating Web pages
The remainder of this book provides detailed information about
how you develop pages within a Web target, and how you use the development environment
to produce Web applications. This section gives an overview of the
types of tasks you need to complete to develop a page, and gives
references to sections in this book that describe how to complete
these tasks.
Adding content and style to your Web pages
You use the tools available in a Web target to add content
and style to your Web application.
| For information about this topic | See this chapter |
|---|---|
| Opening a page in the HTML editor and adding text, images, and other page elements |
Chapter 3, “Working with HTML pages” |
| Using absolute positioning on a page | Chapter 3, “Working with HTML pages” |
| Setting up page formatting using style sheets | Chapter 4, “Working with Style Sheets and Framesets” |
| Developing dynamic Web pages | Chapter 8, “Working with JSP Targets”Chapter 7, “Working with Application Servers and Transaction Servers” |
| Developing dynamic Web pages for deployment to EAServer |
Chapter 9, “Developing 4GL Web Pages” |
| Writing client and server scripts | Chapter 6, “Writing Scripts “Chapter 7, “Working with Application Servers and Transaction Servers”Chapter 9, “Developing 4GL Web Pages” |
| Adding database forms for retrieval and update using the Web DataWindow design-time control |
Chapter 10, “About the Web DataWindow Design-Time Control” |
| Adding components such as Java applets, JavaBeans, and EAServer components to a page |
“Using the System Tree” |
| Adding custom tags and custom tag libraries to a JSP |
“Custom tags” |
Building and deploying Web targets
When you build a Web target or Web target files, the target
or the files are copied from the target Source directory to the
target Build directory. Building a target before you deploy it can
be useful to verify links and make sure they work.
You can build Web target files in a separate action, but when
you deploy a Web target or Web target files, the target files are
built automatically before being deployed. You can find more information
in Chapter 11, “Building and Deploying
Web Targets”.
Testing Web targets
You can make sure that your Web pages appear and function
as planned by inspecting the pages during development and then after
deployment. You can also run the debugger after you deploy the Web
target to a PowerDynamo application server.
Web servers are important for testing and deployment. The PowerDynamo personal
Web server facilitates your development, debugging, and testing activities.
You can develop Web site applications that are independent
of the application server used for production deployment. If your
server-side scripting uses the Web Target object model, then mapping
information supplied during deployment translates between the Web
Target object model and the object model for the application server
you choose.
| For information about this topic | See this chapter |
|---|---|
| Viewing the appearance of your page in a browser or in the HTML editor’s Preview view |
Chapter 3, “Working with HTML pages” |
| Using customized troubleshooting tools for 4GL Web pages |
Chapter 9, “Developing 4GL Web Pages” |
| Viewing the deployed pages in the browsers you want your application to support |
Chapter 11, “Building and Deploying Web Targets” |
| Debugging your application, including client and server scripts |
Chapter 12, “Troubleshooting Web Targets” |