java

CYBER WORLD OF SURESH NALOOR

JAVA

The trigger that revolutionised the I.T. industry (and led to infamous dotcom boom!) is the 'browser' application. Actually, this is one of the smallest application residing in any computer, but this is the interface that made computers an every-home toy! Net was chugging along merrily, in campuses and research institutes only, and the common man was intrigued by the Net only after the spread of Web.

Now, through the World-Wide Web, we were able to browse any static content on web servers. However, the static content was interesting only as long as it was your article, your photos, or the photos of nice babes!!

The web really took off only when web servers were able to produce content 'on the fly' i.e., the content kept changing as per wish of the request from browser. This is the 'dynamic web' and there are many tools available to produce such dynamic web pages. I think the most elegant of the tools is the 'servlets' This is a tool available in Java (J2EE).

Through servlets, and simple 'jdbc' connectivity, we can produce dynamic web pages from many legacy databases. This is the web-enabling in its most basic form, and is topic of my technical paper presented in one of internal Technical Meets in ONGC.

The paper is here.
The post-follow-up brief is here.
For sample code of one java class object created in the application see here