Introduction

The Extending Dreamweaver CS4 guide describes the Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 framework and application programming interface (API) that lets you build extensions to Dreamweaver. The Extending Dreamweaver CS4 guide provides information about:

  • How each type of extension works

  • The API functions that Dreamweaver calls to implement the various objects

  • Menus, floating panels, server behaviors, and so on, that make up the features of Dreamweaver

  • A simple example of each type of extension

  • How to customize Dreamweaver by editing tags in various HTML and XML files to add commands or document types

For information on the Utility and general-purpose JavaScript™ APIs that you can use to perform various support operations in your Dreamweaver extensions, see the Dreamweaver API Reference. If you plan to create extensions that work with databases, review the topics in Using Dreamweaver about making connections to databases.