I just purchased the Water book (and submitted the first review to Amazon.com). Looks like a great language but if I want to make a business case in adopting...
I have some HTML that I developed for another application that I would like to reuse in a Water application. The HTML uses an already defined CSS, and is a...
How do I assign the result of a Java call to a Water variable? I am interested in mapping a Java object that returns a Collection to a Water Vector. Thanks....
Water executes XHTML, but any HTML can be converted to XHTML using the "html_to_xhtml" method. Note: p. 78 of the Water book has a short section titled: ...
Clear Methods will be posting some case studies on how Water has delivered business value for its customers because of Water's flexiblity, security, and...
... Water ... This question contains a whole bunch of interesting issues so I'll give an extended answer that may help others with similar problems. Let me...
Please pardon if this is a double post. I tried a stripped down version of the example on pages 273-274 (just one entry field and a button. When I try and...
Is there support for managing concurrent access to objects in Water? If so, how does one go about this? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
I tried a stripped down version of the example on pages 273-274 (just one entry field and a button. When I try and execute it I get the error shown below. I...
Hi, I was wondering if I could write Water code to point to files located in the webserver (images, video etc.). I'm sure that's possible and not hard, but...I...
Andrew Roach and I successfully accessed a couple of MySQL databases locally and remotely using Water today. This may be old news, but the biggest hurdle we...
I have Access 97 on my system. Here is how I connected to it locally: Under Control Panel setup the ODBC settings, Add a System DSN -- Choose a type of...
Hi all, I finally sat down a wrote my first Water program. It is just a single method that finds the prime numbers up to an endpoint using the Sieve of...
... We're actually going to be expanding the capability of root_object and in the process simplify things by removing "root_folder". Let me explain: The...
This may be a question for the "no shit, sherlock" file, but nobody seems to be mentioning how to run a water server app when the Steam IDE isn't loaded...For...
Actually, this is an excellent question. Here's the overview of 2 answers. Details are below. 1. Use start_program in .JNLP (Java Web Start) file 2. Use Java...
In my simple software requirements web application I create a vector of requirements in my start method. How do I pass this vector (named "aRequirementsList")...
In the FAQ example on page 353 I see a method named _new_object. Where is this method defined or described? I can't seem to find any reference to the method in...
The FAQ example starting on page 353, and ending on page 354, gives me the following message when starting the server. <thing.server root_object=thing.faq...
In evaluating any application I generally review the performance characteristics of the application fairly early. The performance of Water to date, at least as...
Water handles HTML FORM method="get" as expected, but method="post" does not work as I expected. The following code runs as expected: <!-- The following...
Thanks for the good bug report. Here's a patch to fix the bug. This will be part of Steam 3.4 (next week). server.set_args.content.<insert <expr> <if>...
The returned value is the instance of the server. If you want to change the server or stop the server at some later point, then set the result to a variable, ...
In the Water Inspector, search for "_new_object" and you'll see a number of entries that describe it. "_new_object" was a recent addition to the language right...
Per my note last night, I did run a longer running test, this time adding 110,000 questions and answers to the example faq application. I did not see any...
The name of an HTML input field can be an integer (or a string that represents an integer). To receive any number of unkeyed arguments into a method, use ...
I modified the example on page 88 in an attempt to get a table of field names followed by a table of field values. It is not apparent to me how to concatentate...
The problem was that there were two different tables. The tables could be physically combined with a 'vector', as in: <vector> table_one table_two </> ...but...
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