Helma Documentation in DocBook format

Helma Documentation in DocBook format

Michael Platzer has done some excellent work providing this documentation in DocBook format.

PDF and HTML renderings of the document are also available.

Table of Contents

Introduction

What is Helma?
Why Helma?
What is Helma really?

User's Guide

Setting up Helma

Obtaining Helma
Prerequisites
General File Structure of Helma
Starting / Stopping Helma (Development Setup)
Server Setup

Setting up an Application

apps.properties
General File Structure of an Application
app.properties
db.properties
class.properties

JavaScript
Rhino / Direct Scripting of Java
Helma's Host Objects

Helma Basics

Handling Form Data and File Uploads

Object Modelling

Inheritance

Request Path Resolution

Rendering Framework

Session & User Management

Direct DB Connection
File Extension
FTP Extension
Image Extension
Mail Extension
XmlObject Extension
XmlRpc Client
XmlRpc Server
3^rd party Extensions

Performance Tuning

Clustering Helma

Calling Helma from Commandline

antvilleLib

Global Functions
Application Object 'app'
Hop Object
MimePart
onXYZ() Event Functions
Request Object 'req'
Response Object 'res'
SessionObejct 'session'
Skin Object

Hello World
Address book
Mail Client

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