Auction Portal

Major Operations

The following are the major operations of this application.

• User logs into site with username and password
• Registration of user
• Change password
• Forgot password - email address is provided to get password
• Adding an item for auction
• Deleting item
• Searching for items for sale
• Bid for item
• Displaying details of seller

Technologies and Products used

• Tomcat 4.x
• Oracle8i/Oracle9i
• Weblogic Server 7.0
• 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	MemberBean Java Bean
Registration of User	register.html, register.jsp	MemberBean javabean, Member EJB
Forgot password	forgotpassword.jsp	UserBean JavaBean
Changing password	changepassword.jsp	MemberBean javabean
Home Page	home.jsp, listitems.jsp	MemberBean JavaBean
Adding an item	additem.jsp	MemberBean JavaBean,Item Javabean
Bid for item	bid.jsp, bidforitem.jsp, Item JavaBean	MemberBean Bean
Displaying User's Items	myitems.jsp	MemberBean JavaBean
Showing bidders	bidders.jsp	MemberBean JavaBean
Removing an item	removeitem.jsp	MemberBean JavaBean, Item Javabean
Displaying user information	userinfo.jsp	MemberBean JavaBean
log out	logout.jsp	none

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

1. Download auction.zip and unzip it into webapps directory of Tomcat installation directory.
2. Make sure you copy from jdbc/lib/classes111.zip ( after renaming it to classes111.jar) or jdbc/lib/classes12.jar from Oracle directory into WEB-INF/lib directory
3. Also make sure the classpath of Tomcat is changed to include weblogic.jar using setclasspath.cmd in BIN directory of Tomcat or copy weblogic.jar into WEB-INF/lib directory
4. Create account auction with password auction in Oracle by logging in as SYSTEM.
5. Create required tables in Oracle using TABLES.TXT file and also insert some sample data.
6. Make sure Oracle and Tomcat are running.
7. Start Weblogic Server and create the following
   • A connection pool with the name auctionpool - It should access Oracle with auction user and auction password
   • A TxDataSource with the name auctionoracle and JNDI name auction.oracle
8. copy examples.properties file from weblogic700\samples\server\src directory of the weblogic server to member directory.
9. Build the ejb in member directory of application directory using ANT program.
10. Copy member_client.jar from CLIENTCLASSES directory of weblogic server into WEB-INF/LIB directory of application (auction).
11. Run the application using the following url:

       http://localhost:8080/auction
     

12. You should see login page (login.jsp) of the application.