Friday, July 20, 2007

Step by Step J2EE Guide

The goal is to develop a full functional J2EE application with all Java open source tools and $0 Java software cost. I am using Windows platform for the initial version, because it is the one I am most familiar with. Future versions could be on a Linux distribution such as Ubuntu.

Software Installations
* Java JDK
* Eclipse
* JBOSS (Tomcat)
* MySQL

Application design
* Introduction
* Design Diagram

Application Development
* Set up MySQL tables
* Connect JBOSS to MySQL
* Authentication
* Struts Framework
* Entity Bean
* Session Bean
* Action Class
* Form Class
* JSP (Date Picker, Display Tag)
* Report - Itext