Question

For my databasing class, I need to create a working remote database. The database itself is not of issue, but I am quite ignorant on the specifics of a web server.

I need to:

-Have a web site where users can select SQL queries and/or construct their own
-Have those queries sent to the database
-print the results of the query on the web site (formatted for readability)

I have a strong understanding of java and SQL, what I don’t know are the options for hosting the server, how clients will access it, and the html for displaying generated results (as opposed to static content)

I am aware of server implementations such as apache tomcat and java database stuff like JDBC, but I don’t really know how they are used and where they fit in.

I apologize if this is too unfocused of a question but any help with understanding what I will need to learn specifically will be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

Start with some basic steps.

• Install Tomcat
• Install mysql
• Install an IDE like eclipse
• Create a sample web project and you can google for helloworld servlet
• convert that servlet to access the database and then you can implement the other functionality.

Here is some tuts

http://download.oracle.com/javaee/6/tutorial/doc/