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Afam:
One of the major limitations I have found with technology adoption is the statement - there is no point re-inventing the wheel.

By all means if you can re-invent the wheel go ahead because it is in doing so you get to understand how things work. If e-commerce is very generic then how come it is very difficult for payment gateways in Nigeria to implement simple e-commerce solutions? I have been dealing with IT managers of banks who in my opinion know very little about e-commerce let alone having them implement them to our own unique environment.

Yes it is true that sometimes you can't aviod re-inventing the wheel but i think some of the better generic open source tools out there these days are flexible enough for you be able to customize to a specific requirement if required

You are right about the learning curve required in learning how to extend some of these tools but once you pass the initial curve i think you will be fine.

The good thing about these tools is that it is developed by a community of developers so it would probably have been thoroughly tested (at least the very good ones with an active community) and if you get stuck with a problem you have people who will be willing to help you out

Downsides to doing your own thing is that you have to go through many cycles of testing to ensure that the software is doing what it is supposed to do. Fix little niggly bugs and all

hymnha:
Let somebody help me PLs

Did you try my last suggestion

Your code looks fine but i think there is a problem with your SQL syntax from the stacktrace you posted.

Also make sure that the types of the columns you are inserting stuff into matches the java types you are tryin to had to it

yea that will be cool. I actually found Sean the british guy that won Season 5 of USA very much american. he was outspoken very funny and had a lot of brain matter upstairs 

yea and the candidates in the american version are more outspoken and funny

Afam:
Exactly.

I can build a complete shopping cart system with product inventory and order management system in hours because I trust PHP to deliver. Over 70% of web applications out there in the world run on PHP and that is neither a coincidence nor a joke.

I think customizing an existing free ecommerce software in any languague is just fine.

E-commerce is very generic there is no point developing from scatch . . . a waste of brain resources imho

My main problem with dynamic langugues like PHP or Javascript is the loose typing. You find yourself sometimes fixing bugs and writing test cases around issues that should have been caught by the compiler.

They have their advantages though but i don't see them very useful in very complex enviroments.

I think in future we will be having more of hybrid languages coming up.

i actually prefer apprentices USA. I hate they way the candidates worship sir Alan in UK

Kunbee:
Cos you no get yansh

but yansh is for women na

hm

Kunbee

logica:
LOL!

Shopping cart? Who still codes those these days? That's so '97. How many Java-based free open-source frameworks with shopping cart functionality are out there? Literally hundreds, but I'll mention 1 - OfBiz.

men don't make me remember that framework.

brb

hmm