Senior Design Project

slindstr

Well it's time for me to choose what I want to do for my Computer Science senior design project. Everyone is doing stuff in Java. Lame. I want to do something web based (preferably innovative too!) - any suggestions?

Roger_Ramjet

Do it in Java using J2EE and/or Struts etc. Best paid jobs are java. Nothing to stop you doing a web project in java - that's what the frameworks are for.

Bunkermaster

Roger Ramjet wrote:
Do it in Java using J2EE and/or Struts etc. Best paid jobs are java. Nothing to stop you doing a web project in java - that's what the frameworks are for.

BURN THE WITCH! BUUURN!! :quiet:

slindstr

Thanks for the suggestion - I have wanted to mess with J2EE since that's all you ever see listed on Monster - but do you have an idea for a concept of what I should do? It seems like everything's already been done before that's web-related...

Bunkermaster

do something you need. a simple application answering a requirement. I am sure you will find something.

pohopo

Roger Ramjet wrote:
Do it in Java using J2EE and/or Struts etc. Best paid jobs are java. Nothing to stop you doing a web project in java - that's what the frameworks are for.

I say you first do it in J2SE using JSP, JSTL, Servlets, and Pojos using Sun's recommended MVC approach. This will give you a strong foundation in the web aspect of Java development. Only after you can code without a framework would I would start looking at the various frameworks that exist for Java.

ahundiak

How about something to do with youth sports? Maybe something for collecting baseball hitting and pitching stats. Yes there are other programs available but a nice package thats free would be popular.

Or get on the global warming band wagon. Something that lets private citizens trade their carbon emission allowances.

And please use PHP. Java is for developers that only want to make a living.

crux_op

slindstr wrote:
Well it's time for me to choose what I want to do for my Computer Science senior design project. Everyone is doing stuff in Java. Lame. I want to do something web based (preferably innovative too!) - any suggestions?

For one of my classes, I'm producing an implementation of Comet in PHP.

Instead of having the client pull data from the server, the server keeps an open connection to the client and pushes data as its processed.

You can see Comet in action in Meebo.com or GoogleDoc.

Any limitations on what you can do for your project?

slindstr

Thanks for all of your posts - and sorry it took so long for me to write this response (it's been a crazy semester).

There are no limitations on what I can do with the project - I'm leaning toward using some AJAX though (I think it's neat).