TABLE OF CONTENTS

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CHAPTER ORGANISATION 1
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 NEED FOR SHOPPING 3
1.2 IMPORTANCE OF THE PROJECT 4
1.3 INTRODUCTION TO CGI 5
1.4 INTRODUCTION TO HTML 12
1.5 INTRODUCTION TO SESSION 17

2. REVIEW OF THE PROJECT

2.1 SERVLETS IN THE MIDDLE TIER 20

2.2 DATABASE CONNECTIVITY 22
2.3 WEB BROWSER 29
2.4 THE POWER OF SERVLETS 30

3. DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROJECT

3.1 SYSTEM ANALYSIS

3.1.1 INTRODUCTION 32
3.1.2 REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS 33
3.1.3 FEASIBILITY STUDY 36
3.1.4 DATA FLOW DIAGRAMS 38

3.2 SYSTEM DESIGN

3.2.1 INTRODUCTION 42
3.2.2 FLOW CHARTS 44

3.3 IMPLEMENTATION 46
3.3.1 SELECTION OF LANGUAGE 48
3.3.2 KEY FEATURES 49
3.3.3 CODING STANDARDS 50
3.3.4 PSUEDO CODE OF THE MODULES 51

3.4 TESTING STRATEGY 76

4. APPLICATIONS 91

5. CONCLUSIONS
5.1 INTRODUCTION 92
5.2 SAMPLE OUTPUTS
93
5.3 ADVANTAGES 111
5.4 LIMITATIONS 112
5.5 FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS 113
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APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B