Next Steps

In this chapter, we've looked at using JDBC to access our legacy SQL database in order to interface with enterprise data. We also looked at SAX as an alternative to DOM when we don't need to modify the XML data, as well as the object-oriented techniques necessary to use it.

This chapter is a fairly simplified look at these tasks. You'll want to make your applications much more robust and apply your own business rules to them, but all of the concepts are here for you.

At this point, we have fairly complete functionality. We have a site where users can search for products, view their information, and order them. This information is then used to update inventory levels. Some things that we don't have are any graphical design whatsoever, ...

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