•  Preface
  • Purpose
  • Audience
  • Organization
  •  Using this manual
    • References to ABL compiler and run-time features
    • References to ABL data types
  • Typographical conventions
  •  Examples of syntax descriptions
    • Long syntax descriptions split across lines
    • Complex syntax descriptions with both required and optional elements
  • Example Web objects
  •  OpenEdge messages
    • Obtaining more information about OpenEdge messages
•  Developing with WebSpeed
  • Introduction to WebSpeed
  •  WebSpeed and the OpenEdge platform
    • The OpenEdge Reference Architecture
    • WebSpeed and the OpenEdge Reference Architecture
  • Web programming and WebSpeed
•  Web Objects
  •  Types of Web object
    • Standard or static HTML Web objects
    • Embedded SpeedScript Web objects
    • CGI Wrapper Web objects
    • HTML Mapped Web objects
    • General criteria for use
  •  Using Web object examples
    • Web object URLs
  •  Embedded SpeedScript examples
    • A simple query
    • Handling form input
  • A CGI Wrapper example
  •  HTML mapping examples
    •  Simple HTML mapping
      • Mapping form elements to database fields
      • Generating the offset file
      • Editing process-web-request
      • Compiling and running
      • SpeedScript form buffer
      • An alternative to form buffer input
    • Complex HTML mapping
    •  Complex HTML mapping that includes a SmartDataObject
      • Creating a SmartDataObject
      • Mapping with a SmartDataObject
      • Adding code
•  SpeedScript
  •  SpeedScript and Progress ABL
    • Similarities
    • Differences
  •  Elements of SpeedScript syntax
    • Statements
    • Comments
    • Blocks
    •  Running procedures and Web objects
      • Persistent procedures
      • WebSpeed calling conventions
    • Blocks and context
    •  Block context and resource scope
      • Unscoped resources
      • Dynamic resources
    •  Compile-time versus run-time code
      • Compile-time code
      • Compile-time syntax elements
      • Run-time code
      • Run-time syntax elements
      • How compile-time and run-time code interact
  • WebSpeed preprocessors
  •  WebSpeed API functions
    •  Message handling
      • Generating messages directly
      • Generating messages with a custom tag
    • General information exchange
    •  Passing information between Web requests
      • Cookies
      • URL query strings
      • Hidden form fields
      • User fields
    • Managing date and time information
    • Checking configuration options
    • Generating Web page headers
  • XML support in SpeedScript
  • Overview of Embedded SpeedScript
  • Authoring embedded SpeedScript files
  •  How to embed SpeedScript in HTML
    • Statement escapes
    • Expression escapes
  •  Building interactive Web pages with embedded SpeedScript
    • Passing parameters
    •  Managing dynamic pages with forms
      • Defining local data and getting input
      • Defining forms
      • Managing SpeedScript blocks and conditional execution
      • Building URL query strings and closing out the page
  •  Using <META> and <!--WSMETA --> tags
    • Specifying file type options
    • Specifying HTTP header information
    • Generating information prior to HTTP header output
  •  Compiling and running embedded SpeedScript Web objects
    • Compiling embedded SpeedScript Web objects
    • Running embedded SpeedScript Web objects
•  Handling DISPLAY Output
  •  Working with DISPLAY output
    •  Directing DISPLAY output
      • Using the WebSpeed-defined output stream
      • Defining and using a new output stream
    •  Formatting DISPLAY output
      • Paging options of the OUTPUT TO "WEB" statement
      • HTML attributes of the WEB-CONTEXT handle
  •  Changing output format defaults
    • Setting {&WEBSTREAM} defaults
    •  Setting HTML attribute defaults
      • Entering attribute definitions
      • Examples
•  Generating HTML Visualizations
  •  Overview
    • Using the support for HTML table visualizations
  •  Generating HTML tables with a custom tag
    • Rules for using custom tags
    •  Using the <!--WSTAG--> custom tag
      • NAME attribute
      • FILE attribute
    • How tagrun.p interacts with the custom tag
    • Using the table template
    • Compiling the table template
  • Generating HTML tables directly from SpeedScript
  • Adding a template to AppBuilder
  • Support for other HTML visualizations
•  Using JavaScript with WebSpeed
  • SpeedScript versus JavaScript
  • Using JavaScript source files
  •  Some JavaScript examples
    • A combo box with URL buttons
    • Browser detection
    • Printing from an HTML page
•  Controlling WebSpeed Transactions
  •  Defining state
    • Web object states
    • WebSpeed application states
    • Advantages and drawbacks of state-persistence
  •  Understanding state-persistent transaction control
    • How to make a Web object state-aware
    • Web objects in stateless and state-persistent contexts
  •  Primary and secondary Web objects
    • Running primary and secondary Web objects
    • State-aware Web objects and persistence
  •  Implementing transaction control
    • Modifying the outputHeader procedure
    • Modifying the process-web-request procedure
    • Overriding procedures and functions
    • Modifying the attribute list
    • Modifying the user field list
  • Transaction control and embedded SpeedScript objects
  • Transaction control with CGI Wrapper Web objects
  •  Transaction control with HTML-mapping Web objects
    • Anatomy of process-web-request in HTML-mapping
    • Modifying the request logic
    •  Moving data through the HTML mapping Web object
      • Frame buffer and record buffer
      • inputFields data movement
      • assignFields data movement
      • Committed transactions
      • FIND records
      • displayFields data movement
      • enableFields effects
      • outputFields data movement
    • Creating Definitions
    • Modifying the Main Code Block
    • Customizing field object control handlers
  •  Handling state-aware time-outs
    • Using a Web object time-out handler
    • Resetting a Web object's time-out period
  • Advantages of using SERVER-CONNECTION-ID
  • Enabling connection identifiers
  •  Handling Binary Large Objects (BLOBs)
    • Specifying maximum size of uploaded files
•  Controlling Database Transactions
  •  What is a database transaction?
    • DB transactions in code
    • All-or-nothing processing
  •  Understanding the scope of database transactions
    • Subtransactions
    • Controlling where DB transactions begin and end
  •  SpeedScript components and database transactions
    • Subprocedures
    • File input
    • Program variables
  •  Database transactions in applications
    •  Multi-database applications
      • Two-phase commit
      • Checking database connections
    • Distributed applications
  • Determining when database transactions are active
  •  Transaction system mechanics
    • Database transaction mechanics
    • Subtransaction mechanics
  • Efficient database transaction processing
  •  Multi-page database transactions
    • Managing multi-page DB transactions
    • Working with the multi-page transaction example
    • Guidelines for usage
•  Debugging Applications
  • Overview
  • Adding debug=on to URL
  • Persistent debugging using cookies
  • Calling the virtual debug Web object
  •  Debugging and administrative options
    • Agent specific information
    • Persistent state cookies
    • HTTP headers sent
    • Miscellaneous variables
    • Environment variables
    • Form fields
  •  Utilizing debugging in your application
    • Reading the broker's log files
•  WebSpeed API Reference
  • available-messages
  • check-agent-mode
  • convert-datetime
  • delete-cookie
  • format-datetime
  • getAttribute
  • get-binary-data
  • get-cgi
  • get-cgi-long
  • get-config
  • get-cookie
  • get-field
  • get-long-value
  • get-message-groups
  • get-messages
  • get-transaction-state
  • get-user-field
  • get-value
  • hidden-field
  • hidden-field-list
  • html-encode
  • HtmlError
  • output-content-type
  • outputHeader
  • output-http-header
  • output-messages
  • process-web-request
  • queue-message
  • run-web-object
  • set-attribute-list
  • set-cookie
  • set-transaction-state
  • set-user-field
  • setWebState
  • url-decode
  • url-encode
  • url-field
  • url-field-list
  • url-format