hauja47 / ecommerce

A Spring & Hibernate-based E-commerce System

Ecommerce Web Application

• Developed a web application based on Spring MVC to support item search and listing (dependency injection, inversion of control, etc.)

Table of contents

• 1. Project Description
• 2. Infrastructure Design
• 3. Java Servlet Design
• 4. Database Implementation
• 5. Continue

1. Project Description

• Spring Web MVC provides Model-View-Controller architecture to develop flexible web applications
  • Model carries application data
  • View renders User interface (UI)
  • Controller takes care of processing user request and calling back end services.

Spring MVC framework

2. Infrastructure Design

• 3-tier architecture
  • Presentation tier: XML
  • Data tier: MySQL
  • Logic tier: Java, Hibernate

3. MVC Implementation

• Controller
  • Registration
  • HomePage
  • Product
  • Cart
  • CartItem
• Model
  • Authorities
  • BillingAddress
  • Cart
  • CartItem
  • Customer
  • Product
  • SalesOrder
  • ShippingAddress
  • User

4. Database Implementation

• MySQL
  • ShippingAddress - store shipping address
  • BillingAddress - store billing address
  • Customer - store full information of a customer
  • User - store user email and password separately
  • SalesOrder - store sales order
  • Cart - store total price of products in the cart
  • CartItem - store detail infomation for all items in the cart
  • Product - store product information
  • Authorities - store authorities of users

MySQL database schema

5. Flow States

• View: pauses the flow and invites the user to participate in the flow
• Action: business logic takes place
• Subflow: new flow
• End: flow termination