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 19

2. REVIEW OF THE PROJECT

2.1 SERVLETS IN THE MIDDLE TIER 22

2.2 DATABASE CONNECTIVITY 23
2.3 WEB BROWSER 28
2.4 THE POWER OF SERVLETS 29

3. DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROJECT

3.1 SYSTEM ANALYSIS

3.1.1 INTRODUCTION 33
3.1.2 REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS 34
3.1.3 FEASIBILITY STUDY 37
3.1.4 DATA FLOW DIAGRAMS 39

3.2 SYSTEM DESIGN

3.2.1 INTRODUCTION 43
3.2.2 FLOW CHARTS 45

3.3 IMPLEMENTATION 47
3.3.1 SELECTION OF LANGUAGE 49
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 112
5.4 LIMITATIONS 113
5.5 FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS 114
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APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B