A Browser/Server Product Data Management System

In this paper, a design of a browser/server product data management (BSPDM) is presented. It is aimed at achieving the goal of e-Manufacturing by providing an effective tool for product database management through the Internet utilizing Java EE technologies. The BSPDM mainly uses Servlets and JSP to handle user inputs and manage and retrieve product data from the database through the JDBC driver, with the server components stored on a web server system called Tomcat. Within this environment, all parties involved in product design and manufacture can access the log-in page with the given URL after a successful identity authorization. Consequently, these users can create, search and/or manipulate the desired engineering data through the enabled BSPDM. The BSPDM developed in this work has been experimentally developed.