Documentation overview

The XP framework documentation.

Setup

Find out how to setup the framework on your machine:

The framework consists of a number of core functionalities:

Class loading - class naming, uses(), packages, static intializers, anonymous class creation
XAR archives - creating, using, class loading integration, the xar command.
Type system - the lang.Type class, primitives, classes, type wrappers, type hierarchy
Generics - parametrized types, create(), declaration, benefits
Reflection - the lang.XPClass class, invoking methods, accessing fields, packages, types
Annotations - meta-data for classes, fields and methods
Type-safe enumerations - the lang.Enum class, attaching functionality to enum members

This section will give an introduction to the basics of common tasks and how to accomplish them using the XP framework.

Databases - the rdbms package, object persistence, finders, criteria, transactions and drivers.
I/O - files, folders, archives, sockets, servers and various protocols implementation.
XML - DOM- and SAX parsing, XPath, XSLT, tree and node data xml creation, XML / object mapping.
Dates - Date and time, timezones, date manipulation.
Collections - Map, List, Queue, Stack, Set and more: The util.collections API.
Web - Http scriptlets, portlets API, XML / XSL based tier solution, SOAP, WDDX, JSON and XMLRPC
Imaging - Image creation and manipulation, graphs, EXIF and IPTC extraction support.