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Table Of Contents

• Description
• Downloads
• Required Packages
• Optional Packages
• Source Code
• Documentation
• Examples
• Support and Trouble Reporting
• Related Information
• Release History

Description

• Client Session Context Management.
  I*Tea allows the programmer to choose from a few sets of automatic client context management policies, which make Web Application Development event more simple than Client-Server Graphic Application Development (ie. all the details of identifying client browsers and encoding state information in hidden fields, cookies, or server-side storage can be taken away in a transparent way, looking as if each client has its own server process).
• Supports HTML templates (up to I*Tea 2 only), program coded HTML, or mixed mode applications.
  The usage of HTML templates with embedded code (executed on the server side) has advantages when page design is done separatly by non-programmers. On the other hand, coding 100% of the interface in the application itself eases graphical coherence (ex: by using Object Oriented graphical programming patterns). Mixing both application models is perfectly feasible.
• Supports the Tea language for Web Application Development.
  Tea is a high level (interpreted) programming language wich attempts to combine the best from Scheme, Tcl and Java. It supports functional programming (lambdas), objects with single inheritance, modular libraries with auto-loading on demand, and it is easily extensible in Java. Check out the Tea home page for more details.
• 100% Pure Java
  Yes! It runs anywhere with a Java 1.6 JVM or higher.
• Multi-threaded
  It takes advantage of symmetric-multiprocessing if the underlying JVM supports native threads. Vertical scalability is a built in feature.
• Horizontally Scalable Architecture
  Multiple instances of I*Tea servers can be spawned on multiple hardware servers, running the same copy of the application, allowing horizontal load balancing by distributing client sessions between them.
• HTML and higher level widget-like object libraries are included to speed up the development of Web Applications.
• Hot Upgrades of Web Applications
  Tea is an interpreted language with particular code library loading semantics, which (when correctly explored) allows application of code patches on a running Web Application without the need to stop the service (hot patching).

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Downloads

Required Packages

• Know-How
  You must have practical knowledge on administering Web sites with CGIs, and compiling C programs. This is not a yet a pretty-package easy-install server (like RedHat's RPMs or Solaris Packages) ! You don't need to know programming languages, not even Tea for a start, so you can start by setting up an example, and learn Tea and I*Tea all together from that point on.
• System Requirements
  The examples provided here have been tested under Solaris with Netscape 2.0 web server, and Linux with Apache. Similar configurations should also work with no problems. You need a Web server properly installed with capability to install and run your own CGIs to test your system. If you don't have one, you can get Apache HTTP Server.
• Java Runtime Environment
  JRE 1.6, or, JDK 1.6, or higher versions, properly installed. You can get this from Oracle.
• Tea 3.2.6 or higher
  downloadable from the Tea homepage.
• I*Tea Development Kit
  itea-3.6.8.tar.bz2 - A tar+gzip archive containing the I*Tea product directory tree with minimum run-time support and reference documentation. It includes Java classes, and non-compiled CGI Adapter C sources. See the release-notes.txt for feature history. (Older itea-3.5.9.tar.gz , and itea-3.5.9.tar.gz still available for older Tea-3.2.x releases).

Optional Packages

Source Code

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Documentation

• I*Tea Release Notes
  On-line plain text browsable documentation. (Looking up more recent details require access to redmine.pdmfc.com.)
• I*Tea Tea Library API Reference Documentation
  On-line HTML browsable documentation is available.
• I*Tea internal API Javadoc
  On-line HTML browsable documentation is available.
• Tea Documentation
  Check out the Tea home page for the latest material.
• I*Tea Tutorial
  Not yet available. Check out the workshop program below.
• I*Tea Adaptor Protocol description.
  Draft description of the protocol used to connect a CGI adaptor to an I*Tea application server. (Warning: This documentation is targeted to partner developers and there is no commitment to support compatibility with this protocol on future releases).
• I*Tea white paper draft #2 - obsolete (for I*Tea 1 only)
  LaTeX | PDF | PS | HTML | ASCII
• HTML and Widget UML class diagram architecture draft.
  A very incomplete UML draft of the class diagram of HTML and IWidget objects.
• I*Tea Workshop Program and Exercises.
  A very quick introduction to I*Tea Web Programming Patterns.

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Examples

NOVOBANCO Factoring - frontend-web para o factoring do NOVO BANCO.