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Getting Started

WebObjects is an environment for building and deploying World Wide Web applications. For development, it provides a scripting language and objects you can use to create Web applications. For deployment, it provides a system of interrelated components that connect your WebObjects applications to the Web.

This chapter contains a quick introduction to creating, installing, and running applications with WebObjects. Using the Web equivalent of Hello World as an example, this chapter answers the following basic questions:

• What's in a WebObjects application?
  

• Where does everything go?
  

• What parts do I write, and how do I write them?
  

• How do I run a WebObjects application?
  

• What happens behind the scenes?
  

Where Things Go

This section describes where WebObjects resources are installed on your system and what the resources are for.

The Ingredients of a WebObjects Application

This section describes the typical ingredients of a WebObjects application, what role they play, and where to install them. The topics included in this section are:

• Components
• Where WebObjects Components Go

Running WebObjects Applications

This section describes how to run a WebObjects application using a Web browser.

Hello World

This section describes the Hello World example application.

Writing Hello World

This section describes the tasks involved in writing the Hello World application. The topics in this section describe the files in the two Hello World components:

• Main Component Files
• Hello Component Files

Summary