-- Explains how to write and compile server-side JavaScript with LiveWire 1.0.8Covers the fundamentals of JavaScript, its object model, built-in objects, methods and functions.
-- Discusses interfacing Java applets and JavaScript via Netscape's new Live Connect technology.
-- Reviews client/server methodologies and the model used by http.
This book shows developers how to write sophisticated client/server JavaScript applications that take advantage of the new technologies built into Netscape Navigator 3.0. This book introduces client/server methodologies as they can be implemented on the World Wide Web and in intranets, using JavaScript and Navigator 3.0. It presents JavaScript and the fundamentals client/server developers need to understand, including the JavaScript object model, and built in-objects, methods and functions. Next, it presents Navigator 3.0's objects and methods, its object method hierarchy, and construction of windows and frames. There is extensive coverage of how Navigator 3.0's LiveConnect technology can be used to interface with plug-ins and Java applets. Readers learn how to write and compile server-side JavaScript, establish connections to databases via SQL and ODBC, and use Netscape's new Site Manager. Any programmer working with client/server environments, Web sites, or intranets.