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Introduction

This Developer's Guide describes how to use Process Builder, a component of Netscape Application Server: Process Automation Edition (PAE). Read this guide to learn how to develop applications for PAE.


About This Guide
The information in this guide is organized into 18 chapters, 3 appendixes, a glossary. The first 10 chapters describe the fundamentals of using Process Builder:

The next four chapters describe some of the sample applications included with PAE:

The next four chapters describe advanced topics. To get the most out of these chapters, you should be familiar with JavaScript and Java programming.

The remaining parts of this guide are reference material:


Assumptions
This guide assumes you have installed PAE on your system. For installation instructions, see the Installation Guide.

It is recommended that you understand JavaScript. In addition, for some advanced topics, such as writing custom activities or custom fields, you must know how to program in Java.


Conventions Used in This Guide
File and directory paths are given in Windows format (with backslashes separating directory names). For Unix versions, the directory paths are the same, except slashes are used instead of backslashes to separate directories.

This guide uses URLs of the form:

http://server.domain/path/file.html

In these URLs, server is the name of server on which you run your application; domain is your Internet domain name; path is the directory structure on the server; and file is an individual filename. Italic items in URLs are placeholders.

This guide uses the following font conventions:


Viewing Documentation Online
For your convenience, PAE manuals are replicated online in both PDF and HTML formats. You can access the online documentation from the Help menu of each PAE component. You can access context-sensitive documentation by clicking a Help button or link in each PAE component.

 

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