The Netscape LiveWire Sourcebook

Netscape LiveWire is a sophisticated visual development environment that enables professional Webmasters and Web developers to build and manage entire Web sites and applications. The product provides powerful and easy-to-use programming tools for an increasingly sophisticated and competetive market. Livewire is the first major development environment specifically for the Web and integrates Java with drag-and-drop visual program editing and Web database programming. This text is an accessible introduction to creating Web applications and managing Web sites using the LiveWire development environment. It describes the underlying technology and use of: the Java programming language integrated into LiveWire; the LiveWire site manager - readers will master this set of graphical tools and be able to monitor and manage pages, files and links on their Web sites; The LiveWire Server Extension Engine - readers will learn to use this program to create Java-based applets and access other Web programs; and the LiveWire Pro Database Connectivity package - readers will learn how to connect to databases on the Web server or elsewhere on a network and how to create new Web database applications.