Netscape Developer's Guide to JavaScript 1.2

This is a pack containing a paperback book and a CD-ROM, which together explain how to write and compile server-side JavaScript with LiveWire 1.0. The package covers the fundamentals of JavaScript, its object model, built-in objects, methods and functions. It also discusses interfacing Java applets and JavaScript via Netscape's Live Connect technology.;The book shows how to write sophisticated JavaScript applications which take advantage of the new technologies built into Netscape Navigator 3.0. It introduces client/server methodologies as they can be implemented on the World Wide Web and in intranets, using JavaScript and Navigator 3.0. It presents JavaScript and the fundamentals clients and server developers need to understand, including the JavaScript object model, and built-in objects, methods and functions. Next, it presents Navigator 3.0's objects and methods, its object method hierarchy, and construction of windows and frames.;There is extensive coverage of how Navigator 3.0's LiveConnect technology can be used to interface with plug-ins and Java applets. Readers are shown how to write and compile server-side JavaScript, establish connections to databases via SQL and ODBC, and use Netscape's new Site Manager.