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Your First Website In Java: Easier Than You Think1. Setting Goals
This tutorial is a work in progress: new chapters are published
as they become available. The author welcomes readers' input and will
greatly appreciate any comments, suggestions or criticism sent to:
bruno at webjavenue dot com. In the meantime,
please feel free to check out the demo application
this tutorial is based upon.
Published: Feb 14, 2006 I know how eager you are at this point to dive head first into real stuff, like writing servlet code and learning about deployment descriptors, whatever that means, but wait a minute. I promise you, we will get there, but before we get too technical, it is extremely important that we have a clear understanding of where we are going and how we are going to arrive there. In this chapter we will clarify our vision of what we are trying to build by identifying objectives, assessing our assets and factoring in real-world constraints. The plan we will come up with will prove absolutely invaluable in developing our application, as it will provide a framework for making lots of critical technical decisions we are going to be faced with throughout the project. The idea of careful upfront planning might not sound very exciting, and can, in fact, endanger the success of the project if taken too seriously, so we will try to maintain a proper balance between negligence and what is called "early optimization". But I still stand by my claim: planning is important. Exactly how important, you will see in the discussions that follow. Last edited: Feb 26, 2006 |
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