Help in getting a database management system running.

Question

http://projectabstracts.com/406/java-based-online-shopping.html

This project is about "Online Shopping". It uses Java as front-end implementing applets, servlets and JDBC as the connecting link to the back-end which is implemented using SQL. The problem is that I'm a newbie in all this stuff and I don't understand how to get this project running. Could someone please guide me as to how I can do it and what is required for it. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I'm not sure if Java would be the best suited language for an online shop, considering that the standard for this kind of thing is the more web-based languages of PHP/HTML/Javascript/etc.

With that said, You'll need to have an applet server like Apache Tomcat or JBoss to run the app and a RDBMS like MySQL or PostgreSQL. That should be enough to get you started. All those apps have easy to install methods to get them up and running.