Transcript Wanna know how to get from “Y” to “K”

Wanna know how to get from “Y” to“K” ?
Presented By…
Farisai Mabvudza
Supervised By…
George Wells
&
&
Uma Rudraraju
Greg Foster
Why RUM?
Rhodes has never used this system
before – Introduce technology
Not many people know about it
Customer has to be in Grahamstown to
view products
Cash needs to be paid upfront by
existing Rhodes students.
Advantages of RUM to
the University
Easy maintenance
Lower overheads
User profile – identifying users
Automatic processing of orders
New and increased revenue channels
Increased market reach
Improved loyalty
Advantages of RUM to
the Customer
User friendly interactions
Secure transactions
Product features
Up to date
Confirmation of orders
Orders can be made from anywhere in the world
Customers are able to shop around the clock
without leaving their homes
The Concept of Teamwork
“Two heads are better than one”
Diversity of ideas
Increased productivity, efficiency and
quality
Real world – teams for projects
Aiming for a fully working system
Division of Work
Uma
Development of RUM Webpage
Data Validation
Documentation for the above mentioned
tasks of the project
Essential Components
HTML
The publishing language of the World Wide
Web.
Javascript
Is a language which allows a webpage to have
dynamic content
JSP
Technology that allows web developers and
designers to rapidly develop and easily maintain,
information-rich, dynamic web pages that
leverage existing business systems.
How are we tackling RUM?
FrontEnd
BackEnd
Tomcat
Division of Work
Farisai
Development of RUM Webpage
Online Help
Database setup and validation
Linking RUM to Database
Implementation of security features
Implementation of a few possible extensions
Documentation for the above mentioned
tasks
Essential Components
MS Access
DBMS to store product and customer details
JDBC
An industry standard for database independent connectivity
between a computer platform or device operating in the Java
environment and a wide range of databases
Tomcat Web Server
Is a Java based Web Application container that was created
to run Servlets and JSP in Web applications.
Advantages of Tomcat
Available for free
Easy to install and set up
Platform independent
Good security features
Support for JSP 1.2
Servlet API 2.3 compliance
Advantages of Tomcat
Automatic servlet reloading
Thread-pooling and JVM load-balancing
Automatic deployment of Web ARchive
(WAR) files
NSAPI and ISAPI integration
A command-line JSP-to-servlet code
tool
JSP vs ASP
JSP
ASP
Web Server
Any Web server,
including Apache,
Netscape, and IIS
Microsoft IIS or
Personal Web Server
Ability to
Integrate with
Data Sources
Works with any
ODBC- and JDBC
technologycompliant database
Works with any
ODBC-compliant
database
Platforms
Most popular
platforms
Microsoft Windows
JSP vs ASP
JSP
Scripting Language Java
Reusable, CrossPlatform
Components
Customizable Tags
Memory Leak
Protection
Security Against
System Crashes
ASP
VBScript, JScript
JavaBeans,
No
Enterprise
JavaBeans, Custom
JSP Tags
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Expected Output
The expected deliverables are:
The development of a rudimentary
system which, we hope, could be used
at Rhodes University
Documentation
QUESTIONS