Tools

Quick hands-on introductions to development tools of the Helma Javascript Web Application Framework. These introductions refer to the tools included in the Helma 1.5 download.

The Manage application allows you to start and stop applications and makes a variety of status information available. It also provides access to the automatically generated API documentation of the application's code repositories and libraries.

The Shell allows you to run commands and evaluate scripts within your running application. This may be useful for administrative and maintenance tasks for which you may not want to build a GUI or pre-defined scripts.

The Inspector allows you to inspect and modify the properties of HopObjects and to browse the HopObject tree.

The SQLshell allows you to query relational databases, explore their schema, send SQL statements and create object/relational mappings for your HopObject prototypes.

The debugger can help you debug Helma applications, providing facilities to set and clear breakpoints, control execution, view variables, and evaluate arbitrary Javascript code in the current scope, for example that of a request that is being processed.

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