Documentation
Documentation is available in PDF, single-page and multi-page HTML format. Apart from being accessible from this page, you'll also find them in the /doc/ directory of the wingS distribution. Supplementarily, Wings also ships with several demo applications.
- User Guide
- JavaDoc API
- Whitepaper
Further papers about Wings:
- Konzeption und prototypische Implementierung einer JSR-konformen Integration von wingS in Portlet-Container [de] is a theses written by Marc Musch about possible integrations of wingS into the JSR Portlet-Container. It also provides an implementation example of a Portlet-Bridge for the wingS framework and how to use portlet functionalities in wings.
- Untersuchung der Verwendbarkeit und Überführbarkeit von Ajax Ansätzen in das wingS Webframework [de] is a thesis written by Christian Schyma about integrating AJAX into wingS. It provides a good overview about the essentials for writing good JavaScript code and describes available tools and frameworks.
- Erweiterung des Web-Frameworks wingS durch die Integration von optionalem Ajax [de] is a thesis written by Stephan Schuster about integrating transparent AJAX into the wingS-Core. It introduces the concept of incremental page updates and describes the extensions to the wingS-Architecture, that are required to keep track of dirty components and manage component updates.
Additional Resources
- Several articles about wingS have been published in the press
- The most frequently asked questions have been collected in the FAQ section of this page.
- You can use the wingS mailing lists to ask questions, or search their archives to find answers to previously asked ones.
- the Roadmap specifying the plan for further releases
- the JIRA Request Tracker listing all currently known bugs and open issues