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Creating Web server applications with WebSnap
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Using adapters and adapter page producers, WebSnap makes it easy to create scripted HTML pages in your Web server application. You can create a Web front end for your application data using WebSnap tools that may suit all of your needs. One powerful feature of WebSnap, however, is the ability to incorporate Web design expertise from other sources into your application. This section discusses some strategies for expanding the Web server design and maintenance process to include other tools and non-programmer team members.
The end products of WebSnap development are your server application and HTML templates for the pages that... more 
Application components provide the Web application's functionality. For example, including an adapter dispatcher component automatically handles HTML form submissions and the return of dynamically generated images. Including a page dispatcher automatically displays the content of a page when the HTTP request pathinfo contains the name of the page.
For information on creating web server applications, see Creating Web Server Applications with WebSnap.
Selecting the Components button on the new WebSnap application dialog displays another dialog that allows you to select one or more of the Web application module components.
The following table contains a brief explanation of the available... more 
If you look at the source code for WebSnap, you will discover that WebSnap comprises hundreds of objects. In fact, WebSnap is so rich in objects and features that you could spend a long time studying its architecture in detail before understanding it completely. Fortunately, you really don't need to understand the whole WebSnap system before you start developing your server application.
Here you will learn more about how WebSnap works by creating a new Web server application. 
Select one of the following types of Web server application, depending on your application's type of Web server.
Web server application types  
If the selected application module type is a page module, you can associate a name with the page by entering a name in the Page Name field in the New WebSnap Application dialog box. At runtime, the instance of this module can be either kept in cache or removed from memory when the request has been serviced. Select either of the options from the Caching field. You can select more page module options by choosing the Page Options button.
For information on adding application module components, see Specifying Application Module Components.
The Application Module Page Options dialog is displayed... more 
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