hi! I would like to develop an small inventory system (web/browser-based), can anybody advise me on what appropriate java technology I should use to develop such system. I need suggestion on the design approach and what technologies to be implemented to come up with such system(like do I need to used servlets, jsp, what database, etc.)
Your quickest/cheapest time to market will be to use Servlets and JSPs as your primary logic, and JDBC as your backend connection to the database.
If you don't have a database, you can get InstantDB free from enhydra.org, or the more sophisticated MySQL from mysql.org.
For web browser and servlet engine, the cheapest and most supported route would be Apache/Tomcat (see apache.org).
There are any number of discussions on this site for IDEs you might like to try for writing your code. A quick starting point would be Sun's Forte for Java, from sun.com.
All of these categories have high quality and often high price commercial alternatives, if you prefer. For example, WebLogic AppServer, VisualAge for Java IDE, Oracle DB. If you want to go commercial, there are many posts on here about what people recommend about those as well.
Hope this helps you get started.
Steve
Thanks a lot for your advice. I really appreciate it a lot.
Have a nice day!
Van
> Your quickest/cheapest time to market will be to use
> Servlets and JSPs as your primary logic, and JDBC as
> your backend connection to the database.
>
> If you don't have a database, you can get InstantDB
> free from enhydra.org, or the more sophisticated MySQL
> from mysql.org.
>
> For web browser and servlet engine, the cheapest and
> most supported route would be Apache/Tomcat (see
> apache.org).
>
> There are any number of discussions on this site for
> IDEs you might like to try for writing your code. A
> quick starting point would be Sun's Forte for Java,
> from sun.com.
>
> All of these categories have high quality and often
> high price commercial alternatives, if you prefer.
> For example, WebLogic AppServer, VisualAge for Java
> IDE, Oracle DB. If you want to go commercial, there
> are many posts on here about what people recommend
> about those as well.
>
> Hope this helps you get started.
> Steve
