Getting Started-2-Tier

About This Document

Getting Started serves as an introduction to the Panther toolset. It offers an introduction to the software and to the development process. It describes, in step-by-step instructions, the features of the Panther development environment for building a two-tier application. It also includes directions for setting up clients and web application servers to provide all Panther users with the concepts of administering an enhanced client/server environment.

Documentation Web Site

The Panther documentation web site includes manuals in HTML and PDF formats and the Java API documentation in Javadoc format. The web site enables you to search the HTML files for both the manuals and the Java API.

Panther product documentation is available on the Prolifics corporate web site at http://www.prolifics.com/docs/panther/. The documentation is also distributed with the product either in the docs directory or on a separate documentation CD.

How to Print the Document

You can print a copy of this document from a web browser, one file at a time, by using the FilePrint option on your web browser.

A PDF version of this document is available from the Panther library page of the documentation web site. You can open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader and print the entire document (or a portion of it) in book format.

If you do not have the Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can get it for free from the Adobe web site at http://www.adobe.com.

Documentation Conventions

The following documentation conventions are used throughout this document.

Convention Item

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italics

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XMIT

boldface text

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monospace text

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#include <smdefs.h>

chmod u+w *

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monospace italic text

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Example:

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[ ]

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Example:

formlib [-v] library-name [file-list]...

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