Mark Wilson I am the creator of TopXML. I am available for international and local (Australia) contracts. I am a Solution Architect/Business Analyst. I have worked in IT in several countries (NZ, Australia, South Africa, UK) building and training teams for government and very large non-governmental organizations. I am ex-Microsoft Consulting Services. I wrote the first book on Microsoft XML published in 2000 called XML Programming with VB and ASP. Most recently I have been building tools for the SEO industry. Ask me for a 37 point SEO health-checkup for your website.
The first question that you may have is, "What is Enhydra?"
Enhydra is an open source application server written entirely in
Java. It supports many standards, including XML, HTML, Java
Servlets, and JavaServer Pages (JSP).
Lutris Technologies, an Internet consulting company based in
California, started developing Enhydra over four years ago because
there were no application servers on the market that could meet
their needs. Enhydra is built with Java to make it deployable on
whatever platform best suits your needs. Lutris was not in the
business of selling application servers, so they released Enhydra
under an open source license to allow others to benefit from their
efforts.
Today, Enhydra has grown into a robust Java application server
that is not only feature rich, but also has a diverse group of
loyal users and developers. Enhydra remains true to its roots, and
is still able to be developed with and deployed on various
platforms and web serving environments. It is now more alive than
ever, with all the work done to support the latest standards in web
development as well as integrating the work of other open source
projects such as Xerces, Castor, JSP, Tomcat, JTidy, and so on. In
addition to the advantages of the "behind the scenes" technology,
Enhydra offers many advantages for the Internet developer:
Ø Familiar servlet
interface.
Ø Integrated web server to
speed the development testing lifecycle.
Ø Web-based administration
tool for servlet control and debugging.
Ø W3C-DOM based view of HTML
and XML files for easier manipulation and separation of business
logic and presentation code.
Ø Built-in logging facilities
with a configurable level of output to log files.
Ø The source code! If you
have a question, the code is the authoritative answer.
In this talk, we will be covering how Enhydra works with some of
the technologies discussed in the next section, and assume you have
at least a working knowledge of some of them (Java, WML, HTML, and
servlets). Today we will be covering:
Ø Installation requirements
of Enhydra for development
Ø Compatible with ANY
platform with JDK 1.1! (Linux, Solaris, Windows 2000, etc.)
Ø The basic structure of an
Enhydra application
Ø How to develop an Enhydra
application that can publish to both WML and HTML
