Chapter 27. JSP Project I: Personalized Portal

The first two parts of this book covered JSP development and introduced you to a lot of other areas in Enterprise Java in general and Web development technologies in particular. In this, the third and final part of the book, you will see how these technologies are brought together into two projects. These projects are complete by themselves yet simple enough to demonstrate important concepts.

This first project, a personalized portal, builds on many of the concepts covered earlier, and specifically from the following chapters:

By the end of these projects, you will be able to piece together different concepts taught in the book and apply them in complete, real-world Web applications.

The Portal Project

This project demonstrates a personalized portal. It enables users to register and customize their preferences. Based on these preferences, the portal gathers news and other content from different Web sites and aggregates it for the user. This is done using the RSS news syndication technology.

In addition, the portal retrieves information about books and (potentially) other items that match the user's interest, and presents them as advertisements on the customized news page. Presenting such targeted ...

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