Online Art Store

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Technologies
• Prerequisites
• Installation
• Usage
• Features
• Credits

Introduction

This web application lets an art supply store manage their supplies and sell to users online.

Technologies

The application is created with:

• Java Servlet
• HTML/CSS
• MySQL
• Apache TomCat
• Netbeans 12.0

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Prerequisites

• Java SE Development Kit
• JDBC driver for MySQL v8.0.23
• KubeMQ-SDK-Java v1.0.5
• Java Protocol Buffers v3.21.12
• gRPC-Java v1.62.2

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Installation

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/icejan/Online-Art-Store.git

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Usage

• Currently live on http://35.234.253.55/FrontEnd/
• If installed, compile and run the web application on Netbeans (with TomCat)

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Features

Art_Store_Demo.mp4

• Users can login to their account by entering their username and password
• Users can browse items and add to their cart
• System checks the stock of each item in the user's cart to ensure the user does not buy over the limited quantity
• The database persistently stores account and cart information
• Implemented a JWT (JSON Web Token) based authentication that keeps a user logged in while using services.
• Built docker containers to deploy the services on a Kubernetes cluster in the Google Cloud.
• Enabled pub/sub messaging between services through KubeMQ event store channels to synchronize databases.

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Credits

• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)