please reply to - raykoh@m...

I bought one of the book from www.wrox.com and you're one the author in
that book. I got plentty of question here about the book. Hope you can
assist and help me to solve the problems that I had encounter. (ISBN :
1-861003-62-5)

I did download the source code from www.wrox.com. I am referring and
excuting the example that given in chapter 4. In fact, whenever I tried
to execute the JSP file. The error page appeared front of me with the
message "ERROR 500 : Unable to compile this JSP ". So, what should I do
now ?? In chapter 4, the book did guide me on how to create my database
and connect it to the JSP. I had follow every single instruction for
instance, create the systemDNS and create the Sales database for it.

In here, i will list out my computer specification and those 
requirement
that I need in order to test and validate the examples given in the 
book
:-

-Laptop with PentiumII 366 Mhz + 64MB RAM
-Windows 98 (Second Edition)
-JSDWK1.0.1 (download from sun.java.com)
-JSDK1.2 (Standard Editin-download from sun.java.com)
-KAWA EDI tool
-Microsoft Access(RDBMS)

In fact, I used this book to help me to develop an e-commerce
application in project later. I am doing my final year project in BSC 
in
Computing and the title of my project is "Online Client verication of
e-commerce base application". A little bit similar as "Membership base
E-commerce application".

So, do you have any suggestion for me on how to start my project. As
what I noticed, I must have the following :-
Front-End
---------
- Macromedia Dreamweaver
- HTML

Back-End
--------
- JSP
- JDBC (database)

Upon I read that book, I noticed that in order to develop an e-commerce
application using JAVA. I need the following :-
-Java Server Page
-Java Bean
-Java Severlet

Am I right ? But, in my project. I prefer to concentrate on JSP only.
So, what do I need in order to develope my e-commerce base application 
?
I really need your help and hope you could reply me.

That's for now. Wish to get your reply as soon as possible.

Cheers !

/Ray