CNT4714-Project 4 Solved

CNT 4714 – Project  Four
 

Title:  “Project Four: Developing A Three-Tier Distributed Web-Based Application”
 
Objectives:  To incorporate many of the techniques you’ve learned so far this semester into a distributed three-tier web-based application which uses servlets and JSP technology running on a Tomcat container/server to access and maintain a persistent MySQL database using JDBC.   


Description:  In this assignment you will utilize a suppliers/parts/jobs/shipments database (creation/population script available on the course assignment page) as the back-end database. Frontend access to this database by the client will occur through a single page displayed in the client’s web browser. The schema of the backend database consists of four tables with the following schemas for each table:
 

            suppliers (snum, sname, status, city)  //information about suppliers   parts (pnum, pname, color, weight, city)  //information about parts           jobs (jnum, jname, numworkers, city)  //information about jobs 

             shipments (snum, pnum, jnum, quantity)  //suppliers ship parts to jobs in specific quantities 

             

The first-tier (client-level front-end) of your application will be a JSP page that allows the client to enter SQL commands into a window (i.e. a form) and submit them to the server application for processing.  The front-end (and only the front-end) will utilize JSP technology.   The client front-end will provide the user a simple form in which they will enter a SQL command (any DML, DDL, or DCL command could theoretically be entered by the user, however we will restrict to queries, insert, update, replace, and delete commands).  The front-end will provide only two buttons for the user, an Execute button that will cause the execution of the SQL command they enter, and a Reset button that simply clears any content in the form input area.  The client front-end will run on any web-based browser that you would like to use.  You can elect to have a default query or not, it is entirely your decision.  The application will connect to the backend database as a root user client.

 

The second-tier servlet, in addition to handling the SQL command interface will also implement the business/application logic.  This logic will increment by 5, the status of a supplier anytime that supplier is involved in the insertion/update of a shipment record in which the quantity is greater than or equal to 100.  Note that any update of quantity >= 100 will affect any supplier involved in a shipment with a quantity >= 100.  The example screen shots illustrate this case.  An insert of a shipment tuple (S5, P6, J7, 400) will cause the status of every supplier who has a shipment with a quantity of 100 or greater to be increased by 5.  In other words, even if a supplier’s shipment is not directly affected by the update, their status will be affected if they have any shipment with quantity >= 100.  (See page 9 for a bonus problem that implements a modified version of this business rule.)  The business logic of the second tier will reside in the servlet on the Tomcat web-application server (server-side application).  This means that the business logic is not to be implemented in the DBMS via a trigger.

 

The third-tier (back-end) is the persistent MySQL database described above and is under control of the MySQL DBMS server.  All you need to do with the database is run the creation/population script.  See the important note below concerning when/how to re-run this script for your final submission.