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Installation and Administration Guide 555
July 2004 Customizing the Customer Interface
Implementation of the Sample Customer
Interface
Introduction
Symposium Web Center Portal is based on a tiered architecture, with the Java
Server Pages (JSP) and HTML files representing the user interface. The middle
tier is composed of a suite of dedicated Java classes representing a subset of the
Symposium Web Center Portal business logic. These classes map to certain
Symposium Web Center Portal business entities and are available to the
application through the businessobjects.jar file.
Each business object communicates with the database in an instance of a
dedicated database connectivity class, available in the dbconnector.jar file. It is
important that these files, and the other jar files required by the application, are
placed in a location where the servlet engine can readily locate them.
When you start writing the code for the application, you must refer to the
database. You do this through the Java classes provided in the
businessobjects.jar and dbconnector.jar files. These files are located in the
application’s WEB-INF/lib (if you are using Apache) or inetpub/wwwroot (if
you are using IIS) subfolder.
The database connectivity is configured using the parameters in the
db.properties file (the location of which is specified in the application’s web.xml
deployment descriptor). In particular, values for the database server name,
database name, and port number (5005) are required.
Note: This document assumes that you have access to the Symposium Web
Center Portal JSP pages.
Home page
The home page of the application welcomes the user to the application. It
provides information about what the application is for, and displays the top-level
menu selection for the user.