Greater Boston Chapter of the ACM (gbcacm.org) February 21, 2002 Meeting: Simplified XML Programming using Water Speakers: Christopher Fry and Mike Plusch ...
When I click on any "Run" button in any of the 4 tutorial pages at http://www.waterlang.org, the browser converts to "IDE mode" and the status bar says the...
The BostonWater.org user group will have its first meeting this Tuesday at 7pm in Cambridge, MA. Mar 26, 2002 Using Water for database and system integration ...
Water Programming book ... A 150+ page Water Programming book is now available on-line. See www.waterlang.org to download the PDF. www.BostonWater.org User...
Hi, I'm looking to try out the Water runtime engine running as a Java Servlet. I could not find the Water Java Servlet engine on the web site. Can someone send...
Hi, Yes, there is a servlet available and we have try-n-buy 60-day license. We also have a downloadable version of the IDE and local-runtime we can send you....
There were 7 people at the first BostonWater.org user group meeting. We started at 7:00pm, and we had to kick people out at 9:20pm because it was getting late....
The book has descriptions of the language, but what is missing are more complex examples. I program by looking at examples, and reusing patterns. At the user...
Here's an example that shows a common JSP example and the equivalent Water code: JSP code:--------------------------- <@% page import="java.text.*" %> <@% page...
My problem turned out to be the Mac preview app; when I used the Mac Acrobat the print worked fine. Thanks Ed. Bristol...
Edgar H. Bristol
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Apr 17, 2002 9:17 pm
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Over the next two weeks, we will be posting around a dozen articles that describe how to build real-world programs in Water. The first article is at this URI...
A number of folks have asked for a direct comparison of Water to other technologies. I just posted an article comparing Water to JSP. The results are very...
Tues, Apr 30, 2002 7:00pm, Cambridge, MA Water Language tutorial and Water 2.0 Christopher Fry will explain some of the design goals behind the language. He'll...
Been enjoying the Water Programming Manual. I can't resist some kibitzing: The definition of a Tag is a bit confusing and contradictory as being bounded by <>s...
Edgar H. Bristol
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Apr 28, 2002 3:39 am
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... We defined a new term called a Water-Tag that begins at the start of the tag and ends at the end of the tag's closing. We refer to the line below as a...
Hi I am just starting to learn about Water - it looks really great. Thanks to Mr Plusch & Mr Fry for writing a great book. It seems like there is an active...
I also am interested in receiving any notes, visuals, or other informational resources that might be shared with those of us not in the Boston area. It would...
Ok, I'll try to get a volunteer at the next meeting to take some notes. I went ahead and posted the full lecture notes for the all day seminar on May 4th....
Hi It seems that the on-line IDE was updated from 1.5_04 to 2.1 overnight. I'm sure there are lots of changes - what I've noticed so far: * <datetime.today/>...
First, Thank you very much for taking the time. I can imagine your as busy as 'a cat on tin roof' right about now, especially with seminar... I and other...
I wanted to have a button execute Water code, rather than use Forms and hrefs... Mike Plusch helped me with the onclick="" hack after the great GBC/ACM Seminar...
Larry, Water is a good way to jump start a project that is stalled because of budget cuts. Why do I say that? Because water is between 10 and 100 times more...
Hi Steve I can understand that it may cost less to develop, but what is the deployment cost (e.g. servlet)? What servlet container can/should be used? Regards ...
Hi I am interested in using Water to generate XML instead of HTML. This seems possible according to the docs. Can Water emit UTF-8 chars in this case? On the...
