Introduction

Whitebeam provide a 'complete solution' for designing, implementing, testing and hosting web based applications. The solution has been designed from the ground up with reliability, maintainability and rapid development in mind. Developing highly functional web sites using the Whitebeam System is very simple once a few key concepts have been mastered.

This quick start guide explains the basic concepts surrounding Whitebeam server-side environment, the JavaScript language and the techniques for debugging your Web application. This overview summarise the main elements of the system and where necessary points the reader at more detailed descriptions.

Other key resources for the developer are:

• Templates - their functionality, structure and Resouce Object Model (ROM) JavaScript interface
• Whitebeam Tags - their types, how they control the Whitebeam Presentation Engine and their attributes

• Example Applications - what they do and how they work

This quick start guide assumes that the reader is already familiar with JavaScript, HTML and XML technologies and has also read the Whitebeam White Paper "How a Whitebeam Application Works".