Introduction to WebObjects Direct to Web Guide

Introduces the Java-based technology for creating web applications that access a database. Includes examples of customizing applications.

Organization of This Document

This book provides an introduction to Direct to Web and then describes the concepts you’ll need to know when you customize a Direct to Web application.

To help you find what you are looking for, this book is divided into three remaining chapters:

An Introduction to Direct To Web shows how to build a Direct to Web project and perform simple customization tasks on it.

Direct to Web Architecture describes the components and classes involved in generating Direct to Web pages.

Customizing a Direct to Web Application discusses several ways to customize the behavior of a Direct to Web application and presents three full examples:

a property-level component that edits dates using pop-up lists

a new task page called an edit-list page that edits several objects at a time.

adding authentication to a Direct to Web application.

The first topic is suitable for a WebObjects beginner. The last two topics are intended for a programmer who is already familiar with WebObjects, specifically entity-relationship modeling and the WebObjects request-response cycle. For more information about entity-relationship modeling, see WebObjects Enterprise Objects Programming Guide . For more information about the WebObjects request-response cycle, see WebObjects Web Applications Programming Guide .