Each year hundreds of Public Broadcasting stations host fundraising auctions, for many stations it is their single largest source of donations. This year, WXXI of Rochester New York is offering all 5000 lots in their auction inventory online, and also accepting telephone bids in their studio during live television broadcasts. The software running WXXI SpringMarketplace was written using Jakarta's Struts Framework, along with supporting code from Jakarta Taglibs and Jakarta RegExp. The DBMS backend is MySQL, another open-source product. The WXXI Spring Marketplace auction opened Sunday May 6, and processed over 10,000 bids the first week. Lots close Monday 14 through Saturday May 20, 2001. -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA. -- Custom Software ~ Technical Services. -- Tel 716 737-3463. -- http://www.husted.com/about/struts/
