Implementation The Different Components

Implementation The Different Components We used Apache HTTP Server Version 2.0 installed on a Dell Optiplex GX1 P6400 computer running Windows NT 4.0. CGI was used as the server-side scripting mechanism, and the CGI programs were written in Perl. Our CGI programs were very small scripts that merely took in the parameters from a web page’s HTML forms and passed them to Java applications, which created the HTML output. The Java applications used the JDBC API to access data within our database. We used MySQL as our underlying database primarily because of its ease of use (its free and can be easily downloaded and installed), and because it is a relational database to which we can pass SQL queries. Here is the architectural design of our implementation. Download 170,5 Kb.