TalentHolic

It is a a website which provides you the perfect platform to showcase your talents. The idea is to create a platform for intra-college and inter-college societies where students as well as socieites can:

• Create their profile
• Upload their Photos, Videos, Texts etc.
• Like or comment them
• Societies can create events.
• Approach each other for events.

SERVER

• The Server-side programming technology used is JSP.
• Google Cloud Datastore is used as database.

FRONT-END

• The Front-end is made with HTML, CSS and JS.
• Bootstrap is used for better styling of the project.
• Canvas template from Themeforest is used to provide better User Interface.

MISC

• The Web App is deployed on Google Cloud.
• Image storage is handled using BlobstoreService.
• Mail API has been used for sending emails to the users.

Directory Structure of the project

JSP Lifecycle

• Translation of JSP to Java (servlet).
• Compilation of java to .class.
• Loading of servlet class.
• Instantiation(no-arg constructor).
• Initialization(init method).
• Invoke service() method in a new thread of execution(which in turn invoke doXXX methods).
• Destroy(destroy method)

To-Do

• To implement this project , either import the project source code in eclipse ide environment.
• Or alternatively you can import the war file to eclipse and then run the project.
• Run main.jsp as the starting page