Java Tutorials

The purpose of these tutorials is an introduction to java development. The application we will be developing is a online survey, driven a mySQL database (free open source db). We will be using Java Servlets to talk to the database and jsp to generate the front end.

Required Software:

Client Side Development
1. HomeSite (edit jsp files), you can get it here.
2. Kawa (write and compile java), again from allaire.
3. WinSQL (create the tables in MySql), get it here.
4. Putty (telnet connection), get it here.

Server Side
1. MySQL (database), get it here.
2. Tomcat (Runs servlets 2.2 and jsp 1.1), get it here.

The web server we are using is a linux box with apache webserver, you can rent some space here.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
  1. table design - click here
  2. servlet that connects to database - click here
  3. servlet to jsp communications - click here
  4. user input form (yes / no response) - click here
  5. move to next page - click here
  6. results summary - click here