Overview
This is the documenation for the Japano webapplication toolkit. A copy of this documenation is included in the japano distribution.What is Japano?
Japano is a light-weight toolkit based on JSP/Servlets which enables you to develop web applications in java and JSP.When developing web applications with japano you will deal mostly with three types of documents:
- PageNodes - Java sources defining a custom tag used to output into JSP documents.
- Actions - Java sources defining operations that may change the user's session.
- JSP documents containing HTML tags, custom tags and Expressions
More about developing with japano
More about Japano configuration
What do I need to use japano?
On the software side you need- a Java SDK ( e.g. SUN JDK)
- a Servlet container (e.g. ( e.g. Tomcat)
- The ant build tool
- a good JSP-Editor. ( e.g. Netbeans )
Although you can edit JSP documents even with notepad it is nice to have more sophisticated tools for that.
Personally I'm using netbeans as java IDE and like the JSP editor in it. It offers automatic code completion for the tag libraries japano creates. (screen shot )
You can also open the root directories of the japano or japano-sample distribution as projects in the Netbeans IDE.
