 | Level: Intermediate Daniel Wintschel (daniel@humandoing.net), Author and developer
18 Oct 2005 One form of communication gaining popularity today is the wiki, which enables users -- not just administrators -- to make changes to a Web site directly through the Web interface, automatically adding features, such as formatting and outgoing links. In this two-part series, you use the ability to embed Apache Derby in a Web application server to create a simple wiki system. This first tutorial gives you an overview of the basic system and regular expressions.
In this tutorial
- What's a wiki?
- Set up the system
- Create a user account
- Create pages
- Use regular expressions
Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes that you have a basic knowledge of the Java Servlet API and JDBC. To run the example code in this tutorial, you need to perform the following steps:
- Download and install the following applications:
- Tomcat, Version 5.0.28
- Derby 10.1.1.0
- Apache Ant 1.6.5
- J2SE 1.4.2_09
- Define some environmental variables (which are outlined in the first page of the tutorial).
- Extract the supplied .zip file.
- Modify the /web/WEB-INF/web.xml file to specify where you want Derby to create your wiki database.
System requirements
Duration
Under two hours
Formats html, pdf
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