This is an E-commerce Java Web Application
This is an e-commerce Java web application for a small retail store where the store owner sells his/her products online. The application allows the owner to manage products, customers, and orders. Also, with the application customers make orders and pay for the ordered products. The application uses PayPal Express Checkout as its payment solution. In addition, the web store offers customers and visitors to the site an opportunity to subscribe to an email list in order to get news about new products and special offers. Lastly, the application sends an automatic email confirmation after completing an order or subscribing to an email list.
The database communication of the application was implemented by using JPA and JPQL, and MySQL database was used to store the application data. The application was structured according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. The model, the view and the controller layers were implemented by using JavaBeans, JSPs, and Servlet API respectively. The payment transaction of the application was carried out on PayPal Sandbox (testing environment) with different NVP API operations.