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Using WebScript in a WebObjects Application

This section discusses using WebScript in the context of a WebObjects application. It includes the following topics:

• The Role of Scripts in a WebObjects Application

This section describes where scripts fit in to the overall structure of a WebObjects application.

• Visitors Example

This simple example is used to illustrate how a script operates within the larger context of a WebObjects application. The Visitors example is a one-page application that takes the name of the current visitor, and displays the most recent visitor as well as the total count of visitors to the page.

• Variables and Scope

This section discusses the global and session variables you declare in an application script, and the transaction and persistent variables you use in a component script.

• Accessing and Sharing Variables

This section describes how you access variables declared in one script from another.

• Special WebScript Objects and Methods
• The awake method
• Request/response-handling methods
• The pageWithName: method
• WOAction
• The pathForResource:ofType: method
• Debugging

  This section describes how to use the logWithFormat: and trace methods to aid in debugging a WebObjects application.

For a detailed discussion of the structure of a WebObjects application, see Getting Started.

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