Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages™

9.4. An On-Line Store Using a Shopping Cart and Session Tracking

This section gives an extended example of how you might build an on-line store that uses session tracking. The first subsection shows how to build pages that display items for sale. The code for each display page simply lists the page title and the identifiers of the items listed on the page. The actual page is then built automatically by methods in the parent class, based upon item descriptions stored in the catalog. The second subsection shows the page that handles the orders. It uses session tracking to associate a shopping cart with each user and permits the user to modify orders for any previously selected item. The third subsection presents the implementation of the shopping ...