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Hi ,


Are the any experienced Java Programmers here ..

If yes please can you assist me. I am writing an application ( web) Java Server Pages to pull data from an MS Access database and display this is a pretty :D report. I am using JCharts ( free ) .

Has any1 worked with JCharts before ? Is there something beter (free).

As far as the Java Server Pages , how can I really make the look and feel excellent?

Thank you ;)
 
"make the look and feel excellent"? :confused:

Your look and feel is going to depend entirely on the designer who created the template and graphics for the site. Seriously.
 
Damn, there are so many ways:

Java Server Faces
Style sheets
Richfaces

There is the Rich Internet Applications/Frameworks like Backbase and Shindig

or maybe you are just looking for some nice theme's accross your pages?
 
Ouch Netbeans

Personally I prefer eclipse a lot more, there is also some nice visual designer plugins you can download to design JSP pages
 
2cute2shy said:
Hmmm , What about a nice chart jar ? Have you used JChart before ?

Thanks
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I've used JChart Free a long time ago (about 3 years). We used it to generate charts/graphs/whatever from an AS/400.

Rather customizable and worked well for our needs.
 
Veroland said:
Ouch Netbeans

Personally I prefer eclipse a lot more, there is also some nice visual designer plugins you can download to design JSP pages
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+1000 Eclipse with the MyEclipse plugin is the way to go.

2cute2shy said:
Hi ,


Are the any experienced Java Programmers here ..

If yes please can you assist me. I am writing an application ( web) Java Server Pages to pull data from an MS Access database and display this is a pretty :D report. I am using JCharts ( free ) .

Has any1 worked with JCharts before ? Is there something beter (free).

As far as the Java Server Pages , how can I really make the look and feel excellent?

Thank you ;)
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A JSP page is a normal html page with extra tags that get processed server side.
So to answer your question: You can style a jsp page just as you would an html page i.e. css.

JSP also allows for includes http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/tags/11/syntaxref1112.html
So you can achieve the same kind of composition as you would in .NET (masterpages) except
the jsp includes are somewhat more flexible.

What application server do you intend using? And have you looked
at MVC frameworks such as Faces or the older Struts?
 
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@udiS3 said:
+1000 Eclipse with the MyEclipse plugin is the way to go.



A JSP page is a normal html page with extra tags that get processed server side.
So to answer your question: You can style a jsp page just as you would an html page i.e. css.

JSP also allows for includes http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/tags/11/syntaxref1112.html
So you can achieve the same kind of composition as you would in .NET (masterpages) except
the jsp includes are somewhat more flexible.

What application server do you intend using? And have you looked
at MVC frameworks such as Faces or the older Struts?
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Hi ,

Thanks for the info , Java Server Pages is quite new to me , but I am up for the challange ... I will look MVC up, thanks , I dont have a clue about Struts :(
 
MVC stands for Model, View, Controller and Struts and Faces are frameworks build on the MVC principle.

Having a good understanding of the principle of MVC is very important in programming
 
Veroland said:
MVC stands for Model, View, Controller and Struts and Faces are frameworks build on the MVC principle.

Having a good understanding of the principle of MVC is very important in programming
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Thanks Veroland, this is not as simple as I thaught it was , but I am determine to complete this , so I will continue , learning as I go along I suppose ..
 
Have a look at something called Grails (www.grails.org). It's Java but programming is in Java's Ruby equivalent called Groovy (I know, a little corny but hey). I used to use WebWork, Struts, etc, but Grails has changed my life :-) ... my productivity has soared exponentially. Oh and I use JFreeChart with Grails quite happily, plus it comes with Prototype and Scriptaculous by default, but there are tons of other UI plugins available for it. You'll see the Plugins link from the main page.

Have fun!
 
jondo_h said:
Have a look at something called Grails (www.grails.org). It's Java but programming is in Java's Ruby equivalent called Groovy (I know, a little corny but hey). I used to use WebWork, Struts, etc, but Grails has changed my life :-) ... my productivity has soared exponentially. Oh and I use JFreeChart with Grails quite happily, plus it comes with Prototype and Scriptaculous by default, but there are tons of other UI plugins available for it. You'll see the Plugins link from the main page.

Have fun!
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Great , will check it out now ..thank you
 
2cute2shy said:
Hi ,

Thanks for the info , Java Server Pages is quite new to me , but I am up for the challange ... I will look MVC up, thanks , I dont have a clue about Struts :(
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Go with JSF (Faces) instead of Struts. Struts was originally developed by Apache and the concept has then been upgraded and adopted into the EE5 framework.

The same set of professionals that developed Struts were consulted and employed for this task. Essentially Faces is a much more refined version of struts. Getting a grasp of the framework has a slight learning curve in the beginning but will speed up your development lifecycle.

I would use MyEclipse + Eclipse as my IDE. MyEclipse has a lot of neat EE tools and features. One of these is a Faces/Sruts visualizer so you essentially drag and drop pages and create flows and the IDE writes the xml config for you.

As a application server go with GlassFish https://glassfish.dev.java.net/
as it has a very easy to use web interface and there are lots of tutorials available on the net built around Glassfish.
 
@udiS3 said:
Go with JSF (Faces) instead of Struts. Struts was originally developed by Apache and the concept has then been upgraded and adopted into the EE5 framework.

The same set of professionals that developed Struts were consulted and employed for this task. Essentially Faces is a much more refined version of struts. Getting a grasp of the framework has a slight learning curve in the beginning but will speed up your development lifecycle.

I would use MyEclipse + Eclipse as my IDE. MyEclipse has a lot of neat EE tools and features. One of these is a Faces/Sruts visualizer so you essentially drag and drop pages and create flows and the IDE writes the xml config for you.

As a application server go with GlassFish https://glassfish.dev.java.net/
as it has a very easy to use web interface and there are lots of tutorials available on the net built around Glassfish.
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OK great stuff ...
 
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