[claw-cvs] r31 - trunk/doc/chapters

[achiumenti at common-lisp.net]

Author: achiumenti
Date: Wed Apr  9 09:17:29 2008
New Revision: 31

Modified:
   trunk/doc/chapters/intro.texinfo
Log:
updating user manual

Modified: trunk/doc/chapters/intro.texinfo
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--- trunk/doc/chapters/intro.texinfo	(original)
+++ trunk/doc/chapters/intro.texinfo	Wed Apr  9 09:17:29 2008
@@ -10,6 +10,17 @@
 @value{claw} is based on components, highly reusable building blocks the make easy and fast the creation of a web application.
 By using and creating new components, the developer can create robust and consistent web application with the minimal effort.
 
+Each component may inject into a page ist own set of stylesheet and javasctipt files, and may come with its own class or instance javascript
+directives (a class directive is inserted only once into the page, while this is not true for an instance script). This leads to
+the creation of very sophisticated components with a very little effort.
+
+ at value{claw} comes with its own authentication systme that lets you create both basic and form based authentication systems.
+
+ at value{claw} has the capability to force the page renderinig throught the protocol https of pages managing sensible data, using simple
+directives.
+
+ at value{claw} comes with its own extensible localization and validation system.
+
 The main aim of @value{claw} is @cite{`divide et impera'}, that means that dividing problems into small problems let programmers
 work on different part of an application, creating ad hoc components for both generic and specific tasks.
 
@@ -21,9 +32,9 @@
 
 @subsection The request cycle
 
-When a user asks for a page the request is sent to the woserver that dispatches the request to the registered lisplets.
+When a user asks for a page the request is sent to the @code{CLAWSERVER} that dispatches the request to the registered lisplets.
 
-Lisplets are web resource containers that hold web pages and other resource files, such as javascript, image, css, etc. files, under a common path.
+Lisplets are web resource containers that hold web pages and other resource files, such as javascript, image, css, etc. files, or even funcions, under a common path.
 
 When a matching lisplet is then found, it dispatches the request to a registered resource that can be a page or a file or even a function.