Java Developer's Guide to E-Commerce with XML and JSP

Your Java programming knowledge will go a long way toward building an effective e-commerce site. XML is the missing piece, and Java Developer's Guide to E-Commerce With XML and JSP gives you expert instruction in the techniques that unite these closely aligned technologies. Covering the latest Servlet and JSP APIs and the current XML standard, this book guides you through all the steps required to build and implement a cohesive, dynamic, and profitable site.

The enclosed CD contains a complete sample catalog in XML, along with the code you need to accomplish a wide variety of critical e-commerce tasks-editing the catalog, searching and presenting data, presenting and analyzing customer surveys, editing and presenting company news, and equipping the site with a full-featured shopping cart application. The CD also contains the Tomcat Java server, version 3.1.

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 XML for Data Description

What Is XML?

Rules of XML

Creating Style Sheets with XSL

Using XML in Applications

Programming with SAX

XML at a Glance

Chapter 2 A Catalog in XML

What You Want from a Web Site

Why Choose XML?

The Product Catalog and DTDs

DTD Design Principles

Moving toward DTD Standardization

Chapter 3 Presenting an XML Catalog Online

Presentation Technologies

Organizing the Catalog

Information Flow for Presentation Generation

Chapter 4 Filling a Shopping Cart

The Shopping Cart Problem

The Shopping Cart in Java

The CatalogServ Class

The CatalogBean Class

The ProductFormatter Class

Chapter 5 Billing and Order Confirmation

The Payment Process

Security

Customer Confidence

Gathering Checkout Information

Updating Shipping Information

Chapter 6 Online Catalog Upkeep

Solution Overview

Data Objects

Presentation Code

Chapter 7 Using Surveys to Know Your Customer

Customer Privacy Concerns

The Survey Administering Servlet

Chapter 8 And Now for the News

Designing a News System

The News System

Web Page Presentation

Adding the Latest News

Chapter 9 Keep Them Coming Back

News Sources and Standards

An XML File Grabber

Introducing the NewsModel Class

A Supervising Class

Classes to Display Headlines

Possible Improvements

Chapter 10 Java Web Applications

Specifications In The Servlet API

The Next Generation

Problems Of Scaling Up

Appendix A The Servlet and JSP APIs

Setting Parameters for Applications

Getting Request Information

Setting Response Information

Errors and Exceptions

HTTP Status and Error Codes

The JavaServer Pages API

The PageContext Class

The javax.servlet.jsp.tagext Package

Glossary

Index