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About This Guide

This guide introduces the concepts related to developing applications for the Netscape ONE platform. It describes how such applications work at run time and explains the application model they employ. You do not need to be an expert programmer to use this guide, which is meant to give an overview of the issues rather than detailed programming instructions. This guide places the major areas of the Netscape ONE platform in the context of how they are used by applications, with links to the Netscape documentation describing the functionality in detail.

What You Should Already Know

This guide assumes that you are not an expert programmer but do have this basic background:

Where to Find Related Information

For the latest information on developing for the Netscape ONE platform, see the DevEdge web site at http://developer.netscape.com. This guide does not cover deployment of Netscape servers. For information on deployment, see the documentation on the DevEdge web site at http://developer.netscape.com/library/documentation/deploy.html. In addition, other Netscape guides describe certain aspects of application development in greater detail. These guides are mentioned throughout this guide.

Document Conventions

This guide uses uniform resource locators (URLs) of this form:

http://server.domain/path/file.html
In these URLs, server represents the name of the server on which you run your application, such as research1 or www; domain represents your Internet domain name, such as netscape.com or uiuc.edu; path represents the directory structure on the server; and file.html represents an individual file name. In general, items in italics in URLs are variables, and items in normal monospace font are literals. If your server has Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) enabled, you would use https instead of http in the URL.

This guide uses the following font conventions:

About Sample Code

The sample code used in this guide is for illustrative purposes only. It is meant to give the general idea of how to approach programming tasks, and not to provide complete syntax. More complete samples are available with the Netscape Visual JavaScript development environment and the Netscape Visual JavaScript Component Developer's Kit at http://developer.netscape.com/one/components/cdk.html. Sample code related to other aspects of development is also available on the DevEdge web site at http://developer.netscape.com/library/examples/index.html.


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