The pruduct display@ newark.com is amazing.
It not only display different kind of product with common attribute such as partnumber, description, avalabilty& price. But also display category specific attribute (extended attribute). For example, for capacitor, capacitance value is listed; for resistor, resistance is listed. Click the following links to get better understanding
Capacitor
http://www.newark.com/jsp/search/results.jsp?N=1001309&isGoback=false
Resistor
http://www.newark.com/jsp/search/results.jsp?N=1001644&isGoback=false
Looking at the two links, it seems to me only one JSP page plus category number
is used.
How this is achieved? I still do not have a clue after several months research
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My goal is to use only one JSP or JSF page to display the product,therefore, the # of columns & column names are dynamically resolved. In other words, when coding a JSF, the product type(resistor or capacitor) is unknown
Is my goal possible?
I guess the schema is similar to the following:
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category(categoryID, categoryName) :
(1, resistor)
(2, capacitor)
product(productID, availability, price, categoryID):
(p01, 100, 0.5, 1)
(p02, 200, 1.0, 2)
capacitor(productID, capatance):
(p02, 2uF)
resistor(productID, resistance):
(p01,50ohms)
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