I had a few motivations for this:
- I wanted to keep my Java skills up to date as I had moved into an architecture role.
- I was interested to see what the pitfalls would be and how much support there was out there for J2EE sites.
The problem:
Many years ago, I helped build some survey software, then in classic ASP/SQL Server 6.5. There are many online survey builders out there, so armed with my previous experience, I thought I'd add another one.
Here is a nice example: http://www.smart-survey.co.uk/
The philosophy:
Spend as little as possible.
The software stack:
Eclipse JEE, Tomcat, MySQL, STRUTS2, Tiles, Hibernate, Spring
also: JFreeChart, C3P0
Future posts:
Coming up, I will be posting on the following topics, which will hopefully help other Java people out there with similar endeavours.
- Hosting
- Emails - how not to be treated as spam
- How to get a design if you are not a designer
- How to handle payments.
- Connection pooling pitfalls.
If you want to see the work in progress, please visit:
