Lion User Manual

Table of Contents

1. Getting started

• Introduction
• System requirements
• Installation
• Troubleshooting

2. Basic concepts

• Deployment environments
• Directory structure
• The Class Loader
• Lion Execution Flow

3. Request dispatching

• Request Dispatcher
• URLs and Routes
• Request Intercepting Filters

4. The context container

• Context Container
• Dependency Injection

5. The Dual MVC

• Dual MVC
  • Model-View-Controller
  • Model-View-Presenter
• The Controller
• The Model
  • Integrating an ORM
  • Ussing DAOs
• The View
• View.Presenter.pkg

6. The component model

• The Component Model
• The Component Tag Language
• Component types
• The Default Set of Components
  • The actionbox
  • The area
  • The checkbox
  • The combobox
  • The commandbutton
  • The commandlink
  • The datacollector
  • The datebox
  • The filebox
  • The form
  • The inputbox
  • The item
  • The javascript
  • The label
  • The listbox
  • The optionbox
  • The protected section
  • The remote service component
  • The resource component
  • The slider
  • The textarea
  • The uri
  • The validator
  • The window
• Event Handlers
  • Lion Events

7. The security framework

• Security in Lion
• Authentication in Lion
• Authorization in Lion
• Authorization fine grain by ussing Permissions

8. The configuration management system

• Configuration
• Section Handlers
• Accessing the configuration
• Configuration Xml Schema

9. Session handling

• The Session
• What Lion stores in session

10. I18n

• I18n
• Exceptions and I18n

9. Cache

• The Cache facade
• Caching the model

12. Logging

• The Logging facade

13. Error handling

• Exception management system
• The Error Page
• The Error Table
• Exceptions and I18n

14. Advanced Topics

• Lion Architecture
• The Component Execution Model

15. API reference

• Packages
• Index of all elements

Tutorials

• The Hello World
• The Advanced Hello World
• The Hello World Deluxe
• The Hello World Pro
• PHP Login Tutorial