Intranet Messaging

Major Operations

The following are the major operations of this application.

• User logs into site with employee id and password
• Registration of user with employee id and password
• Allows users to get password by providing answer for secret question
• User can send message
• User can reply to a message
• User can see messages
• User can change password
• User can delete messages
• User can create group
• User can add members to group
• User can remove members from group
• User can delete groups

Technologies and Products used

• Tomcat 4.x
• Oracle8i/Oracle9i
• Weblogic Server 7.0
• Java Server Pages (JSP)
• Java Beans
• Enterprise Java Beans

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	MemberBean JavaBean
Displaying details of a Message	messagedetails.jsp	MemberBean Bean
Sending a new message	sendmessage.jsp	MemberBean JavaBean, MessageBean Java Bean
Replying to a message	reply.jsp, postreply.jsp	MemberBean JavaBean, MessageBean JavaBean
Deleting a message	deletemessage.jsp	MemberBean JavaBean, MessageBean JavaBean
Creating group	addgroup.jsp	MemberBean JavaBean, Group JavaBean
Add memebers to group	addmember.jsp	MemberBean JavaBean, Group JavaBean
Delete group	deletegroup.jsp	MemberBean JavaBean, Group JavaBean, deletegroup stored procedure

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

1. Download im.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
4. Create account im with password im in Oracle.
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 imoraclepool - It should access Oracle with im user and im password
   • A TxDataSource with the name imoracle and JNDI name im.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.
10. Copy member_client.jar from CLIENTCLASSES directory of weblogic server into WEB-INF/LIB directory of application (im).
11. Run the application using the following url:

       http://localhost:8080/im
     

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