Internet Shop in Ajax

Ajax Shop Project.

Configuring Tomcat in order to deploy the web application

• Logging must be configured through log4j. A sample log4j.properties file is present in the doc/ directory of the project. Edit it and copy it to {CATALINA_HOME}/common/classes/ log4j.properties. Also install the log4j.jar file (see below).

• The following libraries (JAR files) are needed. Note that some of them may be already present, this depends on your Tomcat distribution. The shared/lib and common/lib distinction is also not essential.

• Requested in WEB-INF/lib in your webapp directory:
  • GWT servlet library (gwt-servlet.jar) [only in WEB-INF/lib]

• Requested in shared/lib directory:
  • Hibernate library (hibernate3.jar)
  • MySQL JDBC driver (jdbc-mysql.jar)
  • Dozer library (dozer-3.2.1.jar)

• In addition, you may also have to add the following libraries, which seem to be dependencies of Hibernate:
  • DOM4J library (dom4j.jar)
  • Code Generation Library (cglib-nodep.jar). If you use the version with dependencies (cglib.jar), you will have to add additional libraries required by cglib (see below)
  • Java Transaction API (jta.jar)
  • Another Tool for Language Recognition (antlr.jar)

• Code Generation Library Dependencies (incomplete):
  • ASM (many JARs, depending on the version of ASM chosen)

• Requested in common/lib directory:
  • Apache Commons FileUpload (commons-fileupload.jar)
  • Apache Commons IO (commons-io.jar)
  • Apache Commons Collections (commons-collections.jar)
  • Log4j logging library (log4j.jar) - this is not strictly required as Tomcat can use JDK logging, but log4j is highly recommended

Important Note: Since they are JAR files, put them in lib/, not classes/ !

Warning: Put gwt-servlet.jar in WEB-INF/lib in your webapp directory. Placing this file in shared/lib won't work properly, you will have problems with the classloader (and ClassNotFound exceptions). This seems to be a GWT problem.

Note: Under Gentoo, it is recommended to install all these packages using Portage. Then create symlinks from the Tomcat directories to the actual JARs.

• You must create the "Shop" database under MySQL. This database will be used by Hibernate.

Deployment Improvements

• Use Ant to package as a WAR.
• The symbolic link from public/images to the actual data directory should be automated by Ant.

SQL Tables

ShopItem

• ID
• ShopID
• Price
• Name
• Auction / Sale
• Image
• Description
• Status
• DateEntered

ShopCategory

• ShopID
• Name
• ID
• Subcategory (boolean)

Project Management

• Back office creation (simple)
• Rudimentary Search implementation
• Style & Design
• Real payment integration