Chapter 1. Introduction

Table of Contents

1.1. About the project
1.2. How to get involved
1.3. About this Cookbook
1.3.1. What this book contains
1.3.2. What this book does not contain
1.4. Project Forum

Simple Cart is a shopcart application written in Java(TM) and implemented using various popular open source tools, viz. Hibernate (http://www.hibernate.org) and Struts (http://struts.apache.org). Simple Cart aims to be simple to use and maintain while providing a robust platform on which to build an enterprise level shopcart solution.

1.1. About the project

Simple Cart is an open source project, and so it depends on volunteers. This includes people that want to help develop it and people that want to use it to work on it. This Cookbook is designed to help interested developers quickly get up to speed with the Simple Cart software. Please feel free to visit the forum with questions and/or answers Simple Cart forum! If you are interested in using simplecart for your own site look here [TODO] for documentation.