XML Server Getting Started    

Cross platform development 

XMLSP supports cross platform development and deployment. For example, you can develop an application using XMLSP 

on Windows and deploy the very same application on UNIX   or vice versa. You can even have a cross platform team of 

developers, some using Windows and some using UNIX, developing the same application at the same time. They can freely 

share XMLSP objects used in the application, because the objects are the same across the different computing platforms that 

XMLSP supports. 

Database connectivity  

XMLSP provides easy access to corporate information stored in a wide variety of databases. Data can be accessed by an 

application server objects via JDBC interface  either with or without connection pool. 

XMLSP WebApplications 

This document describes how to develop XML Server Pages (XMLSP) 

Web Application

 for J2EE compliant application 

servers. It outlines the difference between developing a regular J2EE Web Application and the one powered with XMLSP 

technology solutions.   

As a reminder, 

Web Application

 is a term defined by the 

Java Servlet Specification v2.2

 to describe the set of server side 

resources that make up the interactive interface of an online application, such as servlets, Java Server Pages, HTML pages, 

server side classes etc. The specification defines how these resources can be packaged into a portable "Web Application 

aRchive" (WAR) file so they may be deployed on an application server that supports the WAR standard. A Web Application 

operates within a Servlet Context that defines an environment that is separated from other Web Applications running on the 

same server. Each Web Application is accompanied by a deployment descriptor that ties its resources together, and describes 

how they are deployed on the Servlet2.2 compliant application server. 

XMLSP software itself is installed on the customer's Application Server as two WebApplications: 

xmlsp

 and 

Examples

.  

WebApplication 

xmlsp 

is a repository of run time files to be used by the browser   JavaScript and HTML files, images etc.   

WebApplication 

Examples 

illustrates usage of different XMLSP controls and coding techniques.  Assuming XMLSP 

software is installed on the 

localhost

 at port 80 you can start page, which integrates all examples at 

http://localhost/Examples

.  

It is recommended that you also partition your own development into J2EE WebApplication(s). For the purpose of this 

tutorial we will use pre installed  Examples  one. 

Installation options for MSXML parser on client Workstations 

The basic requirement XMLSP imposes on the client PCs is that Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2 or higher is used as a browser. 

Recommended version of the IE is 6.0 as it includes proper version of MSXML parser. For IE5.5, the XML engine is a 

separately distributed module   primarily because XML specifications were approved much after the official release of IE5.5.  

In particular, the latest release of MSXML that XMLSP has been tested with is MSXML 3.0 SP2 (You can find all available 

XML downloads at MSDNLibrary

 on line.)   

To support automatic on demand download of MSXML 3.0 SP2, XMLSP software is installed with 

msxml3.cab

 located in 

the root of Web Application named 

xmlsp 

on your Application Server (you can also 

download 

msxml3.cab

 from MSDN 

Library

)

. 

Below is the snippet of the HTML that forces the download and install of MSXML 3.0 SP2 engine during the 

parsing of the :