Re: Online Tutorials and Reader Comments

Is this already an RFE?

Grover Blue wrote:

If anyone has read tutorials and/or documentation like
mySQL's online docs, you'll notice at the end of each section readers
can leave feedback. This would be nice addition to the Netbeans
article pages.

For instance, I would like to add comments on where to find information
on using Netbeans to configure database connections and datasources,
which is needed to complete http://www.netbeans.org/kb/articles/security-webapps.html

Or, that "find user query" should be "find-user-query"

Or, SELECT GROUP_NAME FROM PERSON P, GROUP G WHERE P.GROUP_ID = G.ID AND USERID = ?

should be

SELECT GROUP_NAME FROM PERSON P, "GROUP" G WHERE P.GROUP_ID = G.ID AND USERID = ?

Or, Derby documentation is at http://db.apache.org/derby/docs/dev/ref/

Or, SQL to create the tables could be something like:

create table "GROUP" (
ID SMALLINT NOT NULL GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY (START WITH 5, INCREMENT BY 5),

GROUP_NAME VARCHAR(15),
ADDRESS VARCHAR(100),
PHONE VARCHAR(15),
CONSTRAINT GROUP_QU UNIQUE (ID)
);
create table PERSON (
IDENTIFIER INT NOT NULL GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY,

UserID Varchar(10),
password varchar(10),
fname varchar(20),
lname varchar(20),
GROUP_ID SMALLINT NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT PERSON_PK PRIMARY KEY (UserID),
CONSTRAINT PERSON_FK FOREIGN KEY (GROUP_ID) REFERENCES "GROUP" (ID) ON DELETE RESTRICT

);
INSERT INTO "GROUP" (GROUP_NAME,ADDRESS,PHONE) VALUES ('user','123 Slow Cheetah Lane','973-770-3200');
INSERT INTO PERSON (UserID,password,fname,lname,GROUP_ID) VALUES ('testuser','testpass','John','Doe',5);

Most people that follow these tutorials are new to Java and/or new to
Netbeans. There shouldn't be an assumption that they know everything
not explicitly covered, but which is required to get a project going.

Perhaps there can also be a "Related Tutorials/Articles" section at the
bottom of each article.

In addition, the above mentioned article lists 3 possible results of
testing the application. The last being:

"Password for this user is correct, but user does not have right to
access the secured content -> browser displays Error 403 Access to
the requested resource has been denied"

The author, however, doesn't point to a resource that would help the
reader resolve this. Perhaps it's not the authors job, but if there
were a "Reader's Comments" section, someone certainly could.

Thank you for listening, and I hope you consider these additions to an
already great site.

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