Database design log(as a beginner)

May 5, 2008

The designing of a e-commerce bookshop, which aimed at realizing the functions of browsing, selling and sending books on a web-oriented basis, is to some extent a challenging work for our team, since it's our first exposure to such software development process.

On the first day, the Project Manager, Gao, asigned general work for each team-member and my personal part was finding and perceive an available platform for the team. I choosed the combination of eclipse(the general Java platform for the project,edition 3.2), tomcat(the virtual server program,edition 5.5), lomboz(a plug-in for eclipse to implement the jsp-writing function), and mysql(the DBMS).After hard-work on serching the available way to get them together, I successfully distributed such platform and disposed it on teammates' computers. During this process, certain fumbling was unavoidable. For instance, I waste much time on the cooperation between Tomcat 6.0 and Eclipse 3.2, only to find that the latter is less likely to support the former. It's today's major fruition.

 Furthermore, after adjusting the developing platform, I learned some necessary jsp gramma with the help of Internet and books from library, such as the use of JavaBeans and import java classes into jsp page with the statement <jsp:useBean> and the like.

At night our team had the first meeting and experienced a fierce debate on the E-R relation model of the website and certain details. For instance, the actual implementation of shooping cart, a temporary area to store the list a customer willing to buy. Until the ending of the discussing, we still reached no agreement and decided to determine these questions with further information and practising.

In sum, I, with the other team-members, had a to certain degree a satisfactory beginning on the project. God bless.