Hello house,
its 11.pm now, and i need to complete these job, but before then let me share my experiences, i know it will surely help someone on nairaland. cos every thing i know today about software development started here some 2 to 3 years back.
last week i started working on a particular project for a university student. The project is a web based recruitment portal system. i was like wow! but looking closer at the project, i dicorverd that its a simple CRUD application with not much logic. so i decided to hit the road straight.
for the database part of the application, i choosed mysql
for the business logic part, i choose Spring framework; is an enterprise level java framework for java development. i made used of the framework expecially at the web layer of these app.
these days, am so lazy to start writing SQL queries by hand so, i decided to use an ORM(Object relational mapping) tool to talk to my database from the business layer for me, for this part it was JPA(Java Persistance API)
i also downloaded a html/css template for a web portal since my web design skill is not 2 good.
after selecting my tools, i descided to make mockups of the different pages of the app and see how they relates to each other.

a login page,
a registration page for a recruiter
a registration page for an applicant
an index page that displays all the current JobPlacements
a job placement page for a particular job with an apply button
a success page

everything was simple and i loved it that way.

the next step was to identify your key domain objects
mine was
JobSeeker
Recruiter
JobPlacement
Application
Jobcategory.

From my pattern of development i descided to create a data access layer over all these entities. the DAO layer will help me do CRUD on these entities transparently

i got like
JobplacementDAO
JobseekerDAO
ApplicationDAO
etc

the Web layer, i got different controllers for different url actions, like login has its own controller the login controller

Hi i know its a bit of an over kill considering the fact that your project is a simple CRUD app but i would also consider writing some unit tests especially for your domain and DAO objects.

Yea its true. I didnt write unit tests 4 d domain objects and dao rather d pattern i used was 2 write a class with a main method, and get references of d daos from my spring container and test dat all d methods in d daos interfaces works as expected. These nyt, i wil pick d login and registration functionality of d app and explain d daos and d respective controllers. D difficulty am geting is dat i cant upload images of more dan 200k 2 nairaland servers.

The RegistrationController code

I did a similar CRUD project too (web) using Php, i can do java, console and GUI but i can't do web, didn't want to learn the java web
I leant php and ASP.NET instead, i wish you Good luck
You are free to ask for help & ask for testing when you're done

Please, im actually working on a desktop-based application using java. it is the student project management application and i need help from experienced people. thanks in advance. i av done a bit and looking forward to discussing details with friends interested

U can start by telling us wat d difficulting u r facing in ur current project, lets c if we can offer help 2 u.