JavaTips.Com

A website that allows member to post tips related to Java and share them with other members. It also allows members to provide feedback regarding tips of other members.

Major Operations

The following are the major operations of this application.

User logs into site with email adderss and password
Registration of user
Allows users to get password by providing email address, if user forgets password
User can change password
User can post tips
User can see tips of others and provide feedback
User can delete his tips
Seach for Tips on subject and other parameters
Lists users and displays profile of a users along with tips posted by the user
Allows users to send mail to any other user

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

Home page home.html, home.jsp, listtips.jsp UserBean javabean

Registration of User register.html, register.jsp UserBean javabean, User EJB

Forgot password forgotpassword.jsp UserBean JavaBean

Changing password changepassword.jsp UserBean javabean

Displaying details of a tips of the current user mytips.jsp UserBean Bean

Posting a tip addtip.jsp, addtipfinal.jsp UserBean JavaBean, TipBean JavaBean

Displaying tip displaytip.jsp

Providing feedback feedback.jsp UserBean JavaBean, TipBean JavaBean

Deleting a tip deletetip.jsp UserBean JavaBean, TipBean JavaBean

Sending mail to a User sendmail.jsp UserBean JavaBean

Operation	Files	Associated Objects
Login	login.jsp	MemberBean Java Bean
Home page	home.html, home.jsp, listtips.jsp	UserBean javabean
Registration of User	register.html, register.jsp	UserBean javabean, User EJB
Forgot password	forgotpassword.jsp	UserBean JavaBean
Changing password	changepassword.jsp	UserBean javabean
Displaying details of a tips of the current user	mytips.jsp	UserBean Bean
Posting a tip	addtip.jsp, addtipfinal.jsp	UserBean JavaBean, TipBean JavaBean
Displaying tip	displaytip.jsp
Providing feedback	feedback.jsp	UserBean JavaBean, TipBean JavaBean
Deleting a tip	deletetip.jsp	UserBean JavaBean, TipBean JavaBean
Sending mail to a User	sendmail.jsp	UserBean JavaBean

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

Download javatip.zip and unzip it into webapps directory of Tomcat installation directory.
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
Also make sure the classpath of Tomcat is changed to include weblogic.jar using setclasspath.bat in BIN directory of Tomcat
Create account javatips with password javatips in Oracle.
Create required tables in Oracle using TABLES.TXT file and also insert some sample data.
Make sure Oracle and Tomcat are running.
Start Weblogic Server and create the following
- A connection pool with the name javatipspool- It should access Oracle with javatips user and javatips password
- A TxDataSource with the name javatipsoracle and JNDI name javatips.oracle
copy examples.properties file from weblogic700\samples\server\src directory of the weblogic server to user directory of javatips application.
Build the ejb in user directory of application directory using ANT. Set PATH to weblogic\weblogic700\server\bin directory because ANT is found in this directory
Copy member_client.jar from user directory to WEB-INF/LIB directory of application (javatips).
Run the application using the following url:
```
   http://localhost:8080/javatips
 
```
You should see login page (login.jsp) of the application.