Chapter 5. Java News Today: Part I
Armed with the power of beans, the expression language, and the standard tag library, Java News Today is at last ready to start putting its site together in earnest. In order to do so, JNT will need to decide what functionality the site will offer, design the beans that will represent the entities they will be dealing with, and build pages to provide that functionality. This chapter looks at each of these steps.
The Beans
Generally the first step of any large project, data modeling, consists of deciding what data the system will need to maintain, how this data will be represented, and how it interrelates. Traditionally, such modeling takes place in the context of a database, discussed in Chapter 6. For current ...
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