There are many ways to construct a web-enabled database system such as LAMP or ASP.NET.
This course uses the following steps including CGI, JDBC, and Oracle to create the system:
Database and JDBC (or other host languages) setup,
Database design,
Database implementation (SQL),
Web user interface construction [(X)HTML],
Calling a CGI script (Unix shell),
Calling a CGI script (Perl), and
Database accessing embedded in Java host language (JDBC).
These steps and tools are not definite nor unique.
You may take other approaches.
This approach has the following advantages and disadvantages:
Advantages:
It is powerful and flexible and has no problems implementing most web applications.
Disadvantages:
Primitive tools are used in this approach.
Therefore, advanced programming skills are required.
