Developing Database Applications by Using Software Components

Today, the software application development process is more assembly work than a build from scratch approach. By placing pre-existing software components together, it is possible to create a complete application. Such components provide interfaces so that programs use them for their intended purposes. The objective of this thesis is to illustrate how software components work together to make a complete application. To illustrate the ideas and the components, this project presents a three-tiered web database application. This application, as a whole, is made up of the client side web browser, a database and the actual application programs which are Java servlets. The emphasis is placed on these servlets and how they use the Java Database Connectivity, or JDBC, to interface with the databases