Documentation

Build and install

Generic installation instructions (UNIX) are here, which is also included in the source package (INSTALL or INSTALL.html).

In addition, the Wt Wiki has a section dedicated to platform specific installation notes.

Introduction and tutorials

• Learn about the benefits of using Wt compared to traditional web application frameworks using our white paper.
• Dr Dobbs Journal has a good introductary article on Wt (February 2008).
• The reference manual contains a library overview which provides a good starting point to getting started.
• Software Developers Journal has a (slighly outdated) tutorial (April 2006). The tutorial uses the Hangman example code (see also in the examples section!). You can view a copy of the article on-line or grab a PDF copy.
• Victor Venkman wrote a nice introduction to Wt, with a close examination of the hello world example.

Reference manual

There is a a reference manual (in a new window), generated from the source code using doxygen. This also contains a small tutorial on the tree list example, focusing in particular on the stateless slot implementation mechanism, which is a more advanced feature of Wt to allow optimisation of event handling to client side code.

Annotated examples

Source-level documentation has also been generated for the examples and can be viewed here (in a new window).

Wiki

There is a community-run Wt Wiki with useful information such as a FAQ and tips and tricks.