Thread: Project Idea / verification

Hello all,

I've seen a few posts people asking about projects within here so i'm hoping it's the correct place to see if what I'm thinking is a plausable idea or not.

My project aim over the summer develop a tool I can use to help the company I've been working on placement at. It's essentially a monitoring tool driven from a postgresql database that's being constantly updated or 'live' as it was.

Project I need to create live/ weekly/ monthly/ yearly views/charts of the postgresql information over a web browser where a user can log-in and out essentially. Also possible a little interface on the web application that searches a query for details like username for example.


so what I've been thinking. open to corrections or suggestions by all means.

• Through use of netbeans make a web application
• connected to a postgresql database
• secure log in and out of the website hosting the web app, website using html
• import the use of something like highcharts to jquery my database to produce charts
• add little tools like the lookup's aswell.

would I be able to do this through java, also what server would be best to this to to run a localhost essentially for people to log in to.

please if this email is in the wrong section just delete it but I'm just looking for any pointers for a best practice what i could do here.

Thanks
Z

Sounds possible, however the login/logout would have to be done in a programming language, rather than a markup (HTML) language. It's possible to do the entire website via Java, or you can use a different language for the required parts and use a Java applet to display the charts.

Other than that, you would need to be more specific; websites tend to lean towards speed so that might be a consideration through the design process. Although you should avoid premature optimization, but (from the same website) Design for Performance could be something to think about.

I say netbeans from the get-go at the moment due to the software available in the current environment. If it would be a case developing in eclipse, releasing it and not needing to go back into it for a while that would be great. I'll look into those services now mentioned. ok i was more incline towards html for websites as I was more familiar but if the whole thing is created in java then using the java applet for charts, seem's more of a consistant layout then matching thing's here there and everywhere.
thanks for the input so far, really appreciated

I've gone away and was wondering how I could do this, or whether they would all work together.
Netbeans to create a web application with jquery use
postgresql database is read from the web application
I use highcharts through jquery to produce my charts from the postgresql database
all this running on the glassfish server?

thats what im thinking, but I'm confused to where I would put each thing or if using all those together combined is possible at all?
any input to how I can get them working together would be appreciated