AWS: The Ada Web Server

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AWS is a deprecated product. It will be baselined with the GNAT Pro release 28. After this release, there will be no new versions of this product. Contact your sales representative or send a message to sales@adacore.com to get recommendations for replacements.

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. HTTP/2
• 2. Building AWS
  • 2.1. Requirements
  • 2.2. AWS.Net.Std
  • 2.3. Building
  • 2.4. Building on cross-platforms
  • 2.5. Demos
  • 2.6. Installing
• 3. Using AWS
  • 3.1. Setting up environment
    • 3.1.1. Using environment variables
    • 3.1.2. Using GNAT Project Files
  • 3.2. Basic notions
    • 3.2.1. Building an AWS server
    • 3.2.2. Callback procedure
    • 3.2.3. Form parameters
    • 3.2.4. Distribution of an AWS server
  • 3.3. Building answers
    • 3.3.1. Redirection
    • 3.3.2. New location for a page
    • 3.3.3. Authentication required
    • 3.3.4. Sending back an error message
    • 3.3.5. Response from a string
    • 3.3.6. Response from a Stream_Element_Array
    • 3.3.7. Response from a file
    • 3.3.8. Response from a stream
    • 3.3.9. Response from a on-disk stream
    • 3.3.10. Response from a on-disk once stream
    • 3.3.11. Response from a memory stream
    • 3.3.12. Response from a compressed memory stream
    • 3.3.13. Split page
    • 3.3.14. Response a from pipe stream
  • 3.4. Configuration options
  • 3.5. Session handling
  • 3.6. HTTP state management
  • 3.7. Authentication
  • 3.8. File upload
  • 3.9. Communication
    • 3.9.1. Communication - client side
    • 3.9.2. Communication - server side
  • 3.10. Hotplug module
    • 3.10.1. Hotplug module - server activation
    • 3.10.2. Hotplug module - creation
  • 3.11. Server Push
  • 3.12. Working with Server sockets
  • 3.13. Server Log
  • 3.14. Secure server
    • 3.14.1. Initialization
    • 3.14.2. Verify callback
    • 3.14.3. Self-signed certificate
    • 3.14.4. Using a Certificate Authority
    • 3.14.5. Security level
    • 3.14.6. Protocol
  • 3.15. Unexpected exception handler
  • 3.16. Socket log
  • 3.17. Client side
    • 3.17.1. Client
    • 3.17.2. Secure Client
• 4. High level services
  • 4.1. Directory browser
  • 4.2. Dispatchers
    • 4.2.1. Callback dispatcher
    • 4.2.2. Method dispatcher
    • 4.2.3. URI dispatcher
    • 4.2.4. Virtual host dispatcher
    • 4.2.5. Transient pages dispatcher
    • 4.2.6. Timer dispatcher
    • 4.2.7. Linker dispatcher
    • 4.2.8. SOAP dispatcher
  • 4.3. Static Page server
  • 4.4. Transient Pages
  • 4.5. Split pages
  • 4.6. Download Manager
  • 4.7. Web Elements
    • 4.7.1. Installation
    • 4.7.2. Ajax
  • 4.8. Web Blocks
    • 4.8.1. Web Block example
    • 4.8.2. Web Block and Ajax
    • 4.8.3. Web Block and templates2ada
  • 4.9. Web Cross-References
  • 4.10. WebSockets
    • 4.10.1. Introduction to WebSockets
    • 4.10.2. WebSockets on the client (javascript)
    • 4.10.3. WebSockets on the client (Ada)
    • 4.10.4. WebSockets on the server
• 5. Using SOAP
  • 5.1. SOAP Client
  • 5.2. SOAP Server
    • 5.2.1. Step by step instructions
    • 5.2.2. SOAP helpers
• 6. Using WSDL
  • 6.1. Creating WSDL documents
    • 6.1.1. Using ada2wsdl
    • 6.1.2. Ada mapping to WSDL
    • 6.1.3. ada2wsdl
    • 6.1.4. ada2wsdl limitations
  • 6.2. Working with WSDL documents
    • 6.2.1. Client side (stub)
    • 6.2.2. Server side (skeleton)
    • 6.2.3. wsdl2aws
    • 6.2.4. wsdl2aws code generator
    • 6.2.5. wsdl2aws limitations
    • 6.2.6. awsascb
  • 6.3. Using ada2wsdl and wsdl2aws together
• 7. Working with mails
  • 7.1. Sending e-mail
  • 7.2. Retrieving e-mail
• 8. LDAP
• 9. Jabber
  • 9.1. Jabber presence
  • 9.2. Jabber message
• 10. Resources
  • 10.1. Building resources
  • 10.2. Using resources
  • 10.3. Stream resources
  • 10.4. awsres tool
• 11. Status page
• 12. References
• 13. AWS API Reference
  • 13.1. AWS
  • 13.2. AWS.Attachments
  • 13.3. AWS.Client
  • 13.4. AWS.Client.Hotplug
  • 13.5. AWS.Communication
  • 13.6. AWS.Communication.Client
  • 13.7. AWS.Communication.Server
  • 13.8. AWS.Config
  • 13.9. AWS.Config.Ini
  • 13.10. AWS.Config.Set
  • 13.11. AWS.Containers.Tables
  • 13.12. AWS.Cookie
  • 13.13. AWS.Default
  • 13.14. AWS.Dispatchers
  • 13.15. AWS.Dispatchers.Callback
  • 13.16. AWS.Exceptions
  • 13.17. AWS.Headers
  • 13.18. AWS.Headers.Values
  • 13.19. AWS.Jabber
  • 13.20. AWS.LDAP.Client
  • 13.21. AWS.Log
  • 13.22. AWS.Messages
  • 13.23. AWS.MIME
  • 13.24. AWS.Net
  • 13.25. AWS.Net.Buffered
  • 13.26. AWS.Net.Log
  • 13.27. AWS.Net.Log.Callbacks
  • 13.28. AWS.Net.SSL
  • 13.29. AWS.Net.SSL.Certificate
  • 13.30. AWS.Net.WebSocket
  • 13.31. AWS.Net.WebSocket.Registry
  • 13.32. AWS.Net.WebSocket.Registry.Control
  • 13.33. AWS.Parameters
  • 13.34. AWS.POP
  • 13.35. AWS.Resources
  • 13.36. AWS.Resources.Embedded
  • 13.37. AWS.Resources.Files
  • 13.38. AWS.Resources.Streams
  • 13.39. AWS.Resources.Streams.Disk
  • 13.40. AWS.Resources.Streams.Disk.Once
  • 13.41. AWS.Resources.Streams.Memory
  • 13.42. AWS.Resources.Streams.Memory.ZLib
  • 13.43. AWS.Resources.Streams.Pipe
  • 13.44. AWS.Response
  • 13.45. AWS.Response.Set
  • 13.46. AWS.Server
  • 13.47. AWS.Server.Hotplug
  • 13.48. AWS.Server.Log
  • 13.49. AWS.Server.Push
  • 13.50. AWS.Server.Status
  • 13.51. AWS.Services.Callbacks
  • 13.52. AWS.Services.Directory
  • 13.53. AWS.Services.Dispatchers
  • 13.54. AWS.Services.Dispatchers.Linker
  • 13.55. AWS.Services.Dispatchers.Method
  • 13.56. AWS.Services.Dispatchers.URI
  • 13.57. AWS.Services.Dispatchers.Virtual_Host
  • 13.58. AWS.Services.Download
  • 13.59. AWS.Services.Page_Server
  • 13.60. AWS.Services.Split_Pages
  • 13.61. AWS.Services.Split_Pages.Alpha
  • 13.62. AWS.Services.Split_Pages.Alpha.Bounded
  • 13.63. AWS.Services.Split_Pages.Uniform
  • 13.64. AWS.Services.Split_Pages.Uniform.Alpha
  • 13.65. AWS.Services.Split_Pages.Uniform.Overlapping
  • 13.66. AWS.Services.Transient_Pages
  • 13.67. AWS.Services.Web_Block
  • 13.68. AWS.Services.Web_Block.Context
  • 13.69. AWS.Services.Web_Block.Registry
  • 13.70. AWS.Session
  • 13.71. AWS.SMTP
  • 13.72. AWS.SMTP.Client
  • 13.73. AWS.Status
  • 13.74. AWS.Templates
  • 13.75. AWS.Translator
  • 13.76. AWS.URL
  • 13.77. SOAP
  • 13.78. SOAP.Client
  • 13.79. SOAP.Dispatchers
  • 13.80. SOAP.Dispatchers.Callback
  • 13.81. SOAP.Message
  • 13.82. SOAP.Message.XML
  • 13.83. SOAP.Parameters
  • 13.84. SOAP.Types

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Copyright (C) 2001, Pascal Obry, Dmitriy Anisimkov

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