Identifier	SPEC 2
Author	McInerney, Todd
Title	TextTrader: a textbook exchange e-community
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date of Publication	2007
Resource Type	Special Project
Abstract	Although textbooks are vital components to a college education, their value to their owners often fades at the conclusion of a course, when students must purchase the books for their next set of courses. The traditional options available to students were either to sell their textbooks to the campus bookstore or to other students by advertising on a bulletin board. This project's main goal is to develop a web application that enables CCSU students to sell or trade used textbooks. Instead of adopting a traditional e-commerce role, our site focuses on initiating contact between sellers and buyers. In planning this project, our group decided to build the web application using various open-source or open-standard software and systems. Among these are Linux, Java (JSPs and servlets), MySQL, JDBC, Apache Tomcat, and the Apache Struts framework. Some of these were chosen because of budget limitations; others because we had some experience with which we wished to expand; and others because they would provide use with new challenges. Additionally, we utilized a free web service from Amazon.com that allowed our application to query their product database, matching ISBNs with book information, including title, author, edition, and an image of the front cover. The outcome of our project is a viable web application that meets our intended objectives. The application's primary functions pertain to buyers (posting a book) and sellers (searching for books and making offers). Additionally, secondary functions were also implemented including account registration, password resets, and other functions. This paper will present and elaborate on the details of our project and the site we created, TextTrader.
Subject	College textbooks -- Internet marketing
Department	Department of Computer Science
Advisor	Kurkovsky, Stan, 1973-
Contributors	Jogi, Bharti Abbey, Amanda Vodnala, Srilatha
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	713734993
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