Proceedings of 2009 4th International Conference on Computer Science & Education

The education in Java programming and the

deployment in E-commerce project

Anbao WANG 1 HaiLan Pan2 Wenrong JIANG 3

School of Computer and Information，
Shanghai Second Polytechnic
University
Shanghai 201209 China
abwang@it.sspu.cn
School of Computer and Information，
Shanghai Second Polytechnic
University
Shanghai 201209 China
hlpan@it.sspu.cn
School of Computer and Information，
Shanghai Second Polytechnic
University
Shanghai 201209 China
wrjiang@it.sspu.cn

Abstract: The paper discussed the elementary theory and
essentiality in E-commerce at first. In the next section, the
knowledge about JSP, Java BEAN, SERLET and EJB and so on
was introduced, also the paper talked about why to select Java as
E-commerce project programming language, project deploying and
methods in E-commerce project. The relation of the education of
Java programming and the deployment of E-commerce project was
discussed importantly.
Keywords: Java programming, education, the deployment of E-
commerce project, frmework technique
I. INTRODUCTION
Java has evolved rapidly since its introduction by Sun
Microsystems in late 1995 and it has been difficult for software
vendors to update their products to keep pace with new
language features. Netscape, Microsoft and other vendors
quickly adopted the first version of Java [1].
Java programs are compiled for a relatively simple Virtual
Machine, VM, which can be implemented on any computer
architecture, i.e., RISC or CISC, running any operating system,
i.e., UNIX, Mac, or Windows. Although this VM does not
provide as rich a set of instructions as a modern
microprocessor, the virtual machine can implement a user
interface with buttons, a drawing canvas, and other graphical
elements. Compiled Java programs produce class files
containing the byte-code for the Java virtual machine [2].
The Java programming language has been a phenomenal
success. By removing some of the syntactic absurdities of C++,
Java has become the dominant language for undergraduate
programming courses. Its simple object-oriented model and
libraries for networking and graphical user interfaces have
made it better suited to conveying object-oriented concepts and
advanced computing topics such as threads and distributed
objects. In addition, its platform-independent architecture has
made it the language of choice for developing applications that
run anywhere, from the smallest devices to the most scalable
servers [3].
In China, almost every college has set up computer major
and undergraduates majoring in computer outnumber any other
majors. Since the skill to use computer has been regarded as
one of the three basic capabilities in the 21thcentury, students
have to learn computer courses ever from primary school [4].
E-commerce has raised widespread concern in recent years.
It does not have a unified standard and understanding. Many
computer manufacturers (the main promoters of e-commerce)
speak uncompromising for their own commercial purposes; it
makes people feel more obscure about E-commerce
‘conception. In fact, E-commerce is not mysterious. It has
many successful practices already around the world, including
China.
At present, E-commerce has become the fastest growing
international business activities as an important business
activity patterns. As a brand-new operation mode of commerce,
it has played an increasingly important role in development of
modern economy. In the actual business activities, most of the
technical supports for E-commerce systems are Java-based
distributed database, dynamic web applications interacting with
backgrounds database and the users. Thereby, How to build an
efficient E-commerce system have become the key to the
development of E-commerce in the Internet / Intranet
environment.
Accompany with the advent of the Internet economy, E-
commerce has developed very rapidly, and security issues have
become the core issue of e-commerce. Java technology as
development tool in E-commerce systems, if we make full use
of the Java object-oriented technology; independent of the
platform; portability; distributed; multi-threaded; secure and
reliable features and so on, are able to better guarantee the
security of E-commerce, so it is essential to learn Java
technology very well for E-commerce systems development.
In the following section we will introduction Java education
and a few main courses; its relationship with the development
of E-commerce systems will also be discussed.
II. JAVA COURSES RELATED TO E-COMMERCE SYSTEM
DEVELOPMENT
A. Java Programming
Java program design is basic undergraduate courses for E-
commerce professionals. Through the study to allow students a
more comprehensive understanding of advanced computer
programming languages and master basic approach of using

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computer to solve the problems, it also can lay a solid
foundation for the following study of E-commerce technology.
Java programming language is a language described in
Java. It requires students to understand the basic concepts of
program design. It is essential for Programming Practice which
should conform to industry standardization, learn to use
programming language to construct real-world data and process
the electronic data. At the same time, it is very important to
require students to learn how to use Java language to create
Java program, be proficient in a simple development platform,
describing and using Java event processing mode and the
features of object-oriented of Java programming[5],
implementation the input, output functions and file operations,
using AWT and Swing class library to develop a graphical user
interface program, using Java language exception handling
mechanism to implementation of control procedures and the
definition of the user's own exception handling.
Encoding in the process of E-commerce system
development can not be separated from some programming
language; the vast majority technology used in current E-
commerce system development is Java programming
technology, therefore, Java programming is a basic
professional course to the development of E-commerce system.
laying a solid foundation, it provides the basic skills for a
number of follow-up E-commerce systems development
courses.
B. Data Structures and Algorithms (Java)
Data Structures and Algorithms (Java) is basic
undergraduate courses for E-commerce professionals, its
research has a close relationship not only with the study of
computer software but also with the computer hardware. The
main purpose is to learn to study and analyze the characteristics
of the data object of the computer; thereby it is convenient to
select the appropriate data structure, Storage structure,
corresponding algorithm and mastering the algorithm time and
spatial analysis methods
This course is described by Java language for its description
purpose. Proficiency in several typical data structures, such as
table, tree and graphic, various types of data structure on the
basic operation and its application is very useful, on this
condition, focus on understanding the internal search and sort,
is helpful to grasp the methods of algorithm time and spatial
analysis and further improve the algorithm design and
implementation capacity.
Although there is no direct relationship between the Data
Structures and Algorithms (Java) and the E-commerce system
development process, it is the theoretical foundation to ensure
that any system is to be develop whit high-quality, high
efficiency and so on, It is very essential to learn this course
very well for E-commerce system development. If users want
to develop high-quality E-commerce website or applications,
the course of data structures is one of its most important
theoretical foundations.
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C. Advanced Programming
Advanced programming is basic undergraduate courses for
E-commerce professionals, but it is optional. Through the study
of this course, it can enable students to further consolidate the
basic concepts of object-oriented program design methods and
the characteristics of the Java language; also it can learn a
number of advanced applications in the object-oriented design
of Java language including multi-threading, network
programming, collections API, JDBC, JSP, and some advanced
features. In currently, more and more software adopt b/s
structure in Java, for example, multimedia network applications
programming and some integrated projects etc.
It not only requires students to master the object-oriented
programming methods and basic skills, but also needs students
to understand the basic concepts of thread’s life cycle, grasps
the multi-threaded programming techniques including
synchronization, monitoring, and deadlock , studies the basic
methods of network programming and masters the operation of
socket in different ways as well.
Understanding Java collection and some its realized
methods is necessary for students to learn how to use the
framework. Database connection techniques are used in E-
commerce system development widely; thereby it’s important
to learn how to use the JDBC in Java. In this course,
programming in graphic, Java bean, JSP and RMI is also
needed to learn well.
D. application development in Enterprise (Java)
Through the study of this course, it can enable students to
further learn the development of applications used in enterprise
and Java project development skills. in order to improve the
efficiency and performance, learning how to use eclipse
platform to develop Java applications, mastering EJB
technology and project integration and distribution is also
necessary.
E. E-commerce project development
Through the study of this course, it can enable students to
enhance their capacity in practical including various concepts,
technology and skills, solve practical problems they
encountered in job and cultivate the spirit of team work and the
specifications software engineering design at the same time
The purpose is to further consolidate and master enterprise-
level Java application development technologies and use the
knowledge studied form the previous curriculum about the
software project analysis and design method. it makes students
to develop program for the various mission in the project using
database design methodology, unit testing, functional testing
methods and CVS team development methodology,.
The task is to enhance project development capacity and
skills, promote level of software design and master project
testing technology, and cultivate the ability of writing project
documents, teamwork capacity and adaptability in the project.
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III. BUILD E-COMMERCE PLATFORM BASED ON JAVA
TECHNOLOGY
A. brief introduction Java technology used by the E-
commerce platform
We select technologies such as JSP, SERVLET, JavaBeans
and EJB as E-commerce development tools, therefore, we need
to install the Java development tools (JDK) and Tomcat (web
server), using DB2 as backgrounds database. In the following
we will simply introduce the main technologies we have used.
1) JSP technology
JSP (Java Server Pages) is a scripting language used in
Web Programming, It developed by Sun Microsystems
Company and was released in June 1999, and it is a web
development technology based on Java and the Java servlet.
Taking advantage of this technology user can set up advanced,
secure and cross-platform dynamic web site. JSP technology
which has the characteristic of writing once and using every
where can run at any platforms which in line with the Java
environment. JSP technology can run on Web servers and
support many developers toolkit.
2) servlet technology
Servlet is a Java program which uses Java servlet API,
correlative classes and methods. In addition to these, servlet
also can be use to extent and add to Java API classes’ package.
Servlet runs on Java web server or application server, at the
same time, servlet extends these servers’ capability too, just
like Java applet deploys on the web browser and executes
inside the web browser, servlet deploys on the web server and
executes inside the web server. Java servlet API defines an
interface standard between servlet and JVM, therefore, servlet
is platform independent technology.
Servlet provides services of request and respond on the web
via creating a frame to extend server capacity. When client
send request to server, server will send request message to
servlet at once, and servlet must response the client. The web
server can load servlet automatic when the server starts or
client requests service for the first time, and servlet can run
continuously until other clients send requests.
3) Javabean
In fact, JavaBeans is a kind of class, which is soft
component model depicted by Java language. And all these
classes follow an interface style, it is convenient for the users to
make use of the function naming, the underlying behavior or
the inheritance behavior, so we can have classes constructed
and applied as standard JavaBeans component.
Users who have some experience of using other language to
program, JavaBeans can be seen as ActiveX of Microsoft
company, except that JavaBeans is platform independent and
ActiveX can only be used in windows system. In a word,
JavaBeans can be used as software component which needs
platform independent, visualized operations and customization
features.
4) EJB
Enterprise JavaBeans is component model worked in the
server side, which can be deployed in distributed application
environments just as .COM from Microsoft Company, and this
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is the biggest advantage of using EJB. By means of the feature
of platform independent in Java, the distributed system
deployed by EJB can be used in various platforms which are
not limited [6].
EJB is a part of J2EE, which defines a multiple application
criteria based component. The service of network support and
SDK developer kernel toolkit are prominence features in EJB.
Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) is known as Java enterprise
Bean in J2EE，which is the core code includes Session Bean,
Entity Bean and Message Driven Bean.
5) framework technique
Struts spring and hibernate as enterprise calculating
solution are accepted by industry, new features of technique
used in system improve security and stability of system. These
framework techniques not only make a good use of resources,
but also make the project developing to be compact and clear in
frame, besides good expansibility and maintainability also are
provided by this kind of system [6-9].
B. The structure of E-commerce platform
Making sure that we will use technology of Java, we must
build platform, figure 1 is the structure of E-commerce
environment.
HTTP
Applet Container /HTTPS Web Container EJB Container
Applet JSP SERVLET EJB
t RMI
HTTP/HTTPS
App Client J2SE
Container
RMI/IOP
App Client
RMI JavaMail JAT JMS
JDBC JDNI JAF
Database
Figure 1. web application structure
During software development the developer always give
attention to soft reusability, and the component of JSP is just
platform independent and reusability, which contains EJB,
JavaBeans or customized JSP tag. EJB can accessing
traditional database, and run as distributed system pattern in
UNIX or windows. JSP tag can extend to supply simple and
xml-compliant interface for developer, namely share web page
package function, which leads to industrial standardization
completely.
Using servlet to develop is relatively easy thanks to which
owns all merits of Java. Java simplified exception handling and
its OO characteristic make developer’s collaboration to be
easy. The technic of JSP quickens developing of dynamic
website depends on the following aspects: first of all, JSP uses
html tag to plan and design static web pages’ layout and style,
on the other hand JSP uses tags to design the dynamic web
page, these dynamic contents are encapsulated and runs on
server. When we do this, the page layout and style can be
edited by itself, and the dynamic contents may be not impacted.
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Most JSP pages can implement complicate demands by using

JavaBeans, which is platform independent and reusability, and
these JavaBeans components can be used repeatedly by
developers. Finally, JSP uses tag to predigest development. The
developer can use JavaBeans to set and visit their attribute
easily, at the same time, JSP allows developers to define
customize tag, and JSP can accept third-part tag in order to use
component supplied by third-part Company.
IV. CONCLUSION
This paper represents the education of Java technology and
the process of realizing E-commerce system. It is very
convenient to use Java to develop E-commerce system, also,
Java realizes security and credibility in E-commerce, and of
course it has some shortages during implementation procedure.
Yet as time goes on E-commerce will be more popularize, and
this is the inevitable trend to use Java as E-commerce’
development language.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This paper is sponsored by Knowledge Innovation Project a
nd Intelligent Information Service and Support Project of The S
hanghai Education Commission.
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