Jigsaw User's Guide

<H1> <A HREF="../.." TARGET="_top_"><IMG SRC="../../Icons/WWW/w3c_home" ALT="w3c" WIDTH="72" HEIGHT="48" BORDER="0"></A> <A HREF="../" TARGET="_top_"><IMG SRC="../../Icons/jigsaw.gif" WIDTH="212" HEIGHT="49" ALT="Jigsaw" BORDER="0"></A> </H1> <H1> Jigsaw user's guide </H1> <H2> Design </H2> <P> The <STRONG>Jigsaw</STRONG> server is entirely written in Java. Because of this, it offers the following features: <DL> <DT> Portable <DD> <STRONG>Jigsaw</STRONG> will run on all platforms that support Java, with <EM>no</EM> changes ! This is for real, it has been tested at least on Windows 95 and Windows NT. <DT> Extensible <DD> <STRONG>Jigsaw</STRONG> is made of a core and a set of extension modules. You can add your own modules, <EM>dynamically</EM>, to the server. Moreover, because the Java runtime comes with both threads and garbage collection, your job as an extension writter is largely simplified. <DT> Object Oriented <DD> The full code of the server is object-oriented, but the interesting thing is that resources <EM>are objects</EM>. By opposition to most of the existing servers, that consider a resource as being either a <B>cgi script</B> or a <B>file</B>, <STRONG>Jigsaw</STRONG> allows <EM>any</EM> object to become accessible through HTTP. </DL> <H2> Table of content </H2> <P> <B>Jigsaw</B> user's guide is made of the following material: <DL> <DT> <B><A HREF="Introduction/Overview.html">Presentation</A></B> <DD> A quick overview at the <B>Jigsaw</B> architecture. This is a good starting point if you want to either use or extend <B>Jigsaw</B>. It will explains you the basic design. <DT> <A HREF="Administration/Overview.html"><B>Jigsaw</B> administration guide</A> <DD> The thing you want to read if you are planning to use <B>Jigsaw</B> as your HTTP server. This will explain you how to configure <B>Jigsaw</B>. <DT> <A HREF="Tutorials/Overview.html"><B>Jigsaw</B> tutorials</A> <DD> Three tutorials, that explain you how to run and configure <B>Jigsaw</B>, how to extend by by writing new resources, and how to extend it by writing new filters. <DT> <A HREF="Reference/Overview.html"><B>Jigsaw</B> reference manual</A> <DD> The reference documentation for all <B>Jigsaw</B> objects. This includes reference documentation for the set of Java properties used by the server, the set of pre-defined resources and the set of pre-defined filters. <DT> <A HREF="api/packages.html"><B>Jigsaw</B> application programming interface</A> <DD> The thing you want to read if you plan to extend <B>Jigsaw</B> with new functionalities. This includes writing new resource objects (a kind of CGI in the server), changing the default logger, etc. </DL> <P> They should be read in this order: it is recommeneded to be able to configure <B>Jigsaw</B> before trying to extend it ! <P> <HR> <P> <A HREF="mailto:jigsaw@w3.org">Jigsaw Team</A><BR> $Id: Overview.html,v 1.15 2001/03/14 11:32:24 ylafon Exp $ <P>