Online Tutorials

Your Active Web server comes with tutorials to help you get the best from your applications.

To access the tutorials:

Start your web browser.
Put http://server:port/xtutorials/index.xsp in the address field substituting 'server:port' for your Active Web server name and port number.

Tutorials Available:

The Active Web Tutorials are split into eight separate module groups outlined below. You can select a module by clicking on it in the top module selection bar, when you do, the left hand side of the screen updates with a list of tutorials in that module and a brief description of that module in the middle pane.

To view an individual tutorial, select it from the list on the left, the central pane displays the tutorial. Most of the tutorials contain links that execute dynamic pages, they are represented using a Submit . When you execute a page in a tutorial it appears in a new browser window. Subsequent executions reuse the browser window.

Basic

Contains five modules outlining the basic components and tools of using Active Web Script including: Basic Constructs, Looping and Conditionals, Scoping of Variables, code re-use using Fragments and Libraries.

Objects

Contains several modules describing the objects available to the script developer including: email, cookies, date and time, integration with Java, and request and response processing.

Input / Output

Outlines how input / output can be achieved using File Readers and Writers, and also how XML processing with files can be performed.

Container Interfacing

Contains three modules showing how a developer can interface with the host Web Application Container for use of Container sessions and context processing.

Enterprise Interfaces

Contains three modules focusing on the Enterprise Interfaces supported by Active Web:

In the PROIV Task Tutorial you learn how to connect with a PROIV application server, and execute units of business logic
In the Reality tutorial you learn how to execute catalogued Databasic subroutines.
In the directory tutorial you learn how to perform simple searches of a JNDI service.

Database Connectivity

Shows how to connect to a sample database using the Active Web Database Object and then retrieve data using the Cursor object returned from SQL statement.

Browser

Contains two simple modules on using client side Javascript to validate the form data prior to dispatch to the server, and how to manipulate frames.

Internationalisation

Contains two modules highlighting the powerful internationalisation features available within Active Web, focusing on International Tokens and Character encoding.

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