5.9 Summary and Conclusions
This chapter conveyed how easy it is to put together a site using beans and the standard tag library. Although Java News Today is still quite simple in both design and functionality, the principles used in this example are universal and will scale well in any site.
Although the JNT site itself is fairly dynamic, the data behind it is not. There is no way to add new stories, user preferences will be lost when the session expires, and comments will be lost if the system is ever shut down. The solution to all these problems is to have the beans communicate with a database, but before seeing how this is done, it will be necessary to discuss databases in general. This is the topic of the next chapter.
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