Exercise 4 Developing a Simple Web Commerce Application with Eclipse

In the first several chapters of the book, we introduced Eclipse and provided a general overview of its use. We looked specifically at writing, running, and debugging Java and managing team development in Eclipse using CVS. In this exercise, we're going to put all of these together in a robust example. Our goal is to put together many of the individual things you saw in Part I into a more comprehensive application of Eclipse to a programming problem, to illustrate a realistic example similar to what you might do every day with Eclipse as part of your work.

This exercise will walk you through the steps of developing and deploying a small e-commerce Web site, from code creation to application deployment. The Web site will be implemented with a servlet application that displays some book titles and allows you to select one or more for purchase. If you are unfamiliar with servlets, there are a number of books and tutorials on the topic, including several free online.

Input to the exercise is in com.ibm.jdg2e.servletApp.input.

The solution to the exercise is in com.ibm.jdg2e.soln.servletApp.

For instructions on importing these projects into your workspace, see the CD-ROM readme.