Enhydra XMLC Java Presentation Development

Enhydra XMLC Application DevelopmentAuthor Bio David H. Young is Chief Evangelist for Lutris Technologies in Santa Cruz, California, for whom he writes technical papers, gives speeches on wireless and Web development, and serves as editor of the Lutris Enhydra Journal. David has penned magazine articles for publications including ComputerWorld, WebTechniques, and Network Telephony. As the father of three daughters, he believes in going overboard with all his efforts whenever possible. So, in late 1995, he left his engineering career at The Santa Cruz Operation at the behest of colleagues Paul Morgan and Michael Browder, the original founders of Lutris Technologies. There he started by serving as president for 2 1/2 years, leading some of the consulting projects that spawned Paul's vision of a consultant's portable toolbox, later dubbed "Enhydra" by Lutris' Yancy Lind. David was instrumental in the proposal to turn this Lutris technology into a full-blown open source project. After collecting his Bachelor of Science degree in Earth Sciences from the University of California at Santa Cruz, David eventually landed a job at Amdahl Corporation in 1983 where he learned PL/I. After he wrote a program that shaved days off the process of re-routing circuit boards, Amdahl incorporated it into their production software and had no choice but to promote David to the role of full engineer. From there, David joined SCO in 1987 where he not only met Paul, Michael, and John Marco, but was also taken under the wing of Tcl guru Mark Diekhans, who eventually joined Lutris and developed Enhydra XMLC. Working for SCO gave David the opportunity to see the world as an X/Open Systems Management Working Group representative and establish his own niche as Product Manager for Future Technologies. Earlier, as an SCO Development manager for SCO's Motif scripting tool, "Visual Tcl," David was inspired by its champions Mark and Paul to write The Visual Tcl Handbook (Prentice Hall). Unfortunately, this great technology was never open sourced, limiting its access and evolution. Enhydra and Lutris have given him the opportunity to make amends. David lives in Aptos, California with his wife Kathy, daughters Amanda, Nicole, and Claire, and cat Autumn.

Introduction.


1. Enhydra and XMLC.


2. XMLC Development.


3. Presentation Technologies.


4. The ShowFloor ASP Application.


5. Enhydra, Java/XML Application Server.


6. XMLC Basics.


7. The xmlc Command.


8. HTML Presentations.


9. Presentation Strategies.


10. Servlet Web Applications.


11. Wireless Markup Presentations.


12. Smart Clients or Driving Flash and J2ME.


13. Barracuda Presentation Framework.


Appendix A. XMLC Command Line Options.


Appendix B. XMLC Metadata.


Appendix C. The XMLObjectImpl Class.


Appendix D. The Base Presentation Object.


Appendix E. References.