CS520 HW2

Homework 2
CS520, Spring 2008

Due: Thursday, April 10

Please upload your files to CSNS. The files should include all the source code, documentation (if any), and an HTML file hw2.html, which contains a link to your application on the CS3 server. Note that file uploading will be disabled automatically after 11:59PM of the due date, so please turn in your work on time.

[Bulletin Board] For this assignment, you are going to implement a simplified web bulletin board (like CSULA ACM Forums) using servlet/JSP. Specifically,

(10pt) The bulletin board consists of two forums, General Discussion and CS 520. When the application is requested without any parameters, it displays the list of the forums like the following:

Forum	Topics
General Discussion	2
CS 520	2

(15pt) A user may click on one of the forums, in which case, the application displays the topics in the forum. For example:

Topics	Replies	Author
Tomcat Installation Problem	1	John Doe
Please HELP!	0	Somebody

For simplicity, in this assignment we will leave out the feature that allows a user to create new topics. However, your should have no less than two pre-set topics in each of the forums.

(25pt) A user may click on one of the topics, in which case, the servlet displays the posts under the selected topic, as well as a form that allows a user to reply to the topic. For example:

Author	Topic: Tomcat Installation Problem
John Doe	Tomcat is running but when I try HelloJSTL.jsp, I received the following exception: org.apache.jasper.JasperException: The absolute uri: http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core cannot be resolved in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with thisapplication
cysun	Please check whether jstl.jar and standard.jar are directly under tomcat/common/lib

[Deployment on CS3]

To receive full credit for this assignment, you must deploy your application on the CS3 server. If you are using Dynamic Web Project in Eclipse, deployment only takes two simple steps:

Transfer all the files under the WebContent folder to the www folder under your account on CS3.
Transfer all the files under the build/classes folder to the www/WEB-INF/classes folder under your account on CS3.

Note that subfolders must be preserved during file transfer.