To run this tutorial, as a minimum you will be required to have installed the following prerequisite software.

• Sun JDK 5.0+ (J2SE 1.5)
• Eclipse 3.3.1.1 (Eclipse Classic package of Europa distribution), which is platform specific
• Web Tools Platform (WTP) 2.0.1
• Data Tools Platform (DTP) 1.5.1
• Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) 2.3.1
• Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) 3.3.1

Details on installing eclipse are provided in the Development environment section. This tutorial is organized in the following sections:

The application development will take you through the following

Creating a Dynamic Web Project

1. Launch Eclipse. Select File->New->Project.
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. Select Web->Dynamic Web Project. Select Next.
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. On the next screen give the name of the project as WebJDBC.
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. Select default values for all other fields. Finally select Finish.
   
   
   
   
   
   

Creating a database using Administrative Console

1. Start the server and Launch the Administrative Console using the URL http://localhost:8080/console.
2. Enter default username and password.
3. In the welcome page, Under Embedded DB, Select DB Manager.
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. On the next page create a database userdbs and Select create.
   
   
   
   
   
   
5. Once done you can see the userdbs database listed in DB Viewer portlet under Databases. This confirms that the database has been successfully created.
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. As shown in the figure under Use DB, select userdbs from the dropdown box.