WebSTAR Development Information

For information on the writing your own CGIs, Plug-Ins and Java servlets, see:

http://dev.starnine.com/

There is also an active and helpful mailing list, WebSTAR-Dev. To sign up on the Web, see:

http://www.starnine.com/address-list-editor.html

Or send an email message with the word "subscribe" in the subject to:

mailto:webstar-dev-request@starnine.com

If you are also interested in the WebSTAR API and discussions about furthering it, see the Development site for information as well as instructions on signing up for the WebSTAR-API mailing list.

Scripting Tools

Scripting tools for WebSTAR include:

WebSTAR SSI

The Server-Side-Include commands are extremely powerful and may allow you to avoid writing a CGI altogether.

AppleScript <http://www.apple.com/applescript/>

Simple but slow language lets you access many other applications on the server.

WebSiphon <http://www.purity.com/websiphon/>

From Purity Software: A powerful embedded scripting language for building dynamic web sites that is easy to learn but rich enough to satisfy the needs of advanced programmers.

Frontier <http://www.scripting.com/frontier/>

A powerful, widely-used scripting language developed by UserLand Software and based around an object database, Frontier is useful to web developers both as a development environment and a CGI framework, though it gives you rich system-level control as well.

Typhoon <http://www.pacific-coast.com/Typhoon/>

Pacific Coast Software's Typhoon uses a subset of the WebDNA command language used by WebCatalog (their online commerce application) to add fast dynamic processing to your web pages.

MacPerl

WebSTAR supports the standard Perl language via MacPerl. For the simplest implementation, save the Perl script (using MacPerl) as a CGI or ACGI (those options are in the save dialog of MacPerl). However, it does not have all the Unix system support that many Perl scripts expect, so you may have to make changes or use another scripting language.

Install MacPerl onto your server, and address the CGI as you would anywhere else.

For more information, see:

 
http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri/macintosh/perl.htm

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http://www.ptf.com/macperl/

 
http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/mac/MacPerlFAQ.html