Auction Portal

This is an internet website that allows sellers to sell items through auction and buyers to bid for
items.

Major Operations
The following are the major operations of this application.

User logs into site with username and password

Registration of user

Change password

Forgot password - email address is provided to get password

Adding an item for auction

Deleting item

Searching for items for sale

Bid for item

Displaying details of seller

Technologies and Products used

Tomcat 4.x
Oracle8i/Oracle9i

Weblogic Server 7.0

Java Server Pages (JSP)

Java Beans

Enterprise Java Beans

Java Mail

The following table lists operations and associated objects and files.
Operation
Login

Files
login.jsp

Associated Objects
MemberBean Java Bean

Registration of User

register.html, register.jsp

MemberBean javabean, Member

EJB

Forgot password

forgotpassword.jsp

UserBean JavaBean

Changing password

changepassword.jsp

MemberBean javabean

Home Page

home.jsp, listitems.jsp

MemberBean JavaBean

Adding an item

additem.jsp

MemberBean JavaBean,Item
Javabean

Bid for item

bid.jsp, bidforitem.jsp, Item

JavaBean

MemberBean Bean

Displaying User's Items

myitems.jsp

MemberBean JavaBean

Showing bidders

bidders.jsp

MemberBean JavaBean

Removing an item

removeitem.jsp

MemberBean JavaBean, Item

Javabean

Displaying user
information

userinfo.jsp

MemberBean JavaBean

log out

logout.jsp

none

The following are the steps to related to be taken to run the existing part of the
application :
1. Download auction.zip and unzip it into webapps directory of Tomcat installation
directory.
2. Make sure you copy from jdbc/lib/classes111.zip ( after renaming it to classes111.jar) or
jdbc/lib/classes12.jar from Oracle directory into WEB-INF/lib directory
3. Also make sure the classpath of Tomcat is changed to include weblogic.jar using
setclasspath.cmd in BIN directory of Tomcat or copy weblogic.jar into WEB-INF/lib
directory
4. Create account auction with password auction in Oracle by logging in as SYSTEM.
5. Create required tables in Oracle using TABLES.TXT file and also insert some sample
data.
6. Make sure Oracle and Tomcat are running.
7. Start Weblogic Server and create the following
o

A connection pool with the name auctionpool - It should access Oracle with
auction user and auction password

A TxDataSource with the name auctionoracle and JNDI name auction.oracle

8. copy examples.properties file from weblogic700\samples\server\src directory of the

weblogic server to member directory.
9. Build the ejb in member directory of application directory using ANT program.
10. Copy member_client.jar from CLIENTCLASSES directory of weblogic server into
WEB-INF/LIB directory of application (auction).
11. Run the application using the following url:
12.

http://localhost:8080/auction

13. You should see login page (login.jsp) of the application.