Classmates.Com

This web application allows old students of a college ( or any institute) to share their information with other students. It enables a student to provide his/her information to others and also get information about other students.

Major Operations

The following are the major operations of this portal:

User logs into site with email address and password
Users can register with his/her details like name, branch, year of passing etc.
Allows user to enter email address and get password if they forget password
Member can change personal details
Member can change password
Member can upload photo
Member can add details of family members
Member can update or delete details of family members
Member can add details of his/her experience
Member can update or delete details of experience
Member can send message to another members
Displaying messages received by a member - inbox
Deleting message
Searching for classmates based on name,branch, occupation and year passed out
Displaying details of a member
Unregister a member

Technologies and Products used

Tomcat 5.x
Oracle8i/Oracle9i
JBoss
SMTP Server
Java Server Pages (JSP)
Java Beans
Enterprise Java Beans
Java Mail

The following table lists operations and associated objects and files.

Operation Files Associated Objects
Login login.jsp MemeberBean javabean

Registration of User register.html, register.jsp Member EJB

Forgot password forgotpassword.jsp JavaMail

Changing password changepassword.jsp MemberBean javabean

Home Page homepage.jsp, links.html MemberBean JavaBean

Search For Classmates searchclassmates.jsp MemberBean JavaBean,

Displaying details of a member memberdetails.jsp Database JavaBean

Adding details of family member addfamilymember.jsp MemberBean JavaBean, FamilyMember javabean

Updating family member editfamilymembers.jsp, updatefamilymember.jsp, updatefamilymemberfinal.jsp MemberBean JavaBean, FamilyMember javabean

Delete family member editfamilymembers.jsp, deletefamilymember.jsp MemberBean JavaBean

Send Message sendmessage.jsp MemberBean JavaBean, MessageBean javabean

Delete Message deletemessage.jsp MemberBean JavaBean, MessageBean javabean

Inbox homepage.jsp MemberBean JavaBean

Unregister Member unregistger.html, unregister.jsp Member EJB and unregisteruser stored procedure

Operation	Files	Associated Objects
Login	login.jsp	MemeberBean javabean
Registration of User	register.html, register.jsp	Member EJB
Forgot password	forgotpassword.jsp	JavaMail
Changing password	changepassword.jsp	MemberBean javabean
Home Page	homepage.jsp, links.html	MemberBean JavaBean
Search For Classmates	searchclassmates.jsp	MemberBean JavaBean,
Displaying details of a member	memberdetails.jsp	Database JavaBean
Adding details of family member	addfamilymember.jsp	MemberBean JavaBean, FamilyMember javabean
Updating family member	editfamilymembers.jsp, updatefamilymember.jsp, updatefamilymemberfinal.jsp	MemberBean JavaBean, FamilyMember javabean
Delete family member	editfamilymembers.jsp, deletefamilymember.jsp	MemberBean JavaBean
Send Message	sendmessage.jsp	MemberBean JavaBean, MessageBean javabean
Delete Message	deletemessage.jsp	MemberBean JavaBean, MessageBean javabean
Inbox	homepage.jsp	MemberBean JavaBean
Unregister Member	unregistger.html, unregister.jsp	Member EJB and unregisteruser stored procedure

The following are the steps to related to be taken to run the existing part of the application :

Download classmates.zip and unzip it into webapps directory of Tomcat installation directory.
Make sure you copy classes111.zip ( after renaming it to classes111.jar) or classes12.jar into WEB-INF/lib directory
Copy mail.jar and activation.jar files into common\lib directory in Tomcat.
Copy commons-fileupload.jar file into WEB-INF/lib directory in Tomcat. This is found in Struts blank application. This can be downloaded from jakarta.apache.org.
Create account classmates with password classmates in Oracle.
Create required tables in Oracle using TABLES.TXT file and also insert some sample data.
Make sure Oracle and Tomcat are running.
Copy classes111.jar (renamed classes111.zip) or classes12.jar into JBOSS_HOME\server\default\lib directory.
Start JBOSS 4.x
Build ejb in ejb directory of classmates directory using build.bat. Make necessary changes to build.bat before you run it.
Make sure EJB is deployed sucessfully.
Copy member.jar into WEB-INF/lib directory of classmates
Copy jbossall-client.jar from JBOSS_HOME/client into common/lib directory of Tomcat.
Copy oracle-ds.xml from JBOSS_HOME\docs\examples\jca into JBOSS_HOME\server\default\deploy directory.

Add a new local-tx-datasource as follows under datasources tag as shown below. Change values according to your system settings.

  <local-tx-datasource>
      <jndi-name>ClassmatesDS</jndi-name>
      <connection-url>jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:oracle8i</connection-url>
      <driver-class>oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver</driver-class>
      <user-name>classmates</user-name>
      <password>classmates</password>
      <exception-sorter-class-name>org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.vendor.OracleExceptionSorter</exception-sorter-class-name>
        <metadata>
           <type-mapping>Oracle8</type-mapping>
        </metadata>
  </local-tx-datasource>

Start Tomcat

Run the application using the following url:

   http://localhost:8080/mft/login.jsp

You should see login page of the application.

Deploying Web Application In Tomcat of JBoss

The following procedure explains how to deploy a web application CLASSMATES, developed with Standalone Tomcat, into Tomcat that is embeded into JBoss. This eliminates the need to use two servers - JBOSS and TOMCAT. Instead by starting JBOSS, we can use Web applications and related EJBs.

Create a .war file for web application classmates by getting into classmates directory of webapps directory of TOMCAT as follows:
```
     jar cfv  classmates.war  *.*
  
```
Copy classmates.war file into JBOSS_HOME\server\default\deploy directory.
Run the application using the following url:
```
   http://localhost:8080/classmates
 
```
You should see login page of the application.