I am going to build a communication portal by these technologies. OS: Linux, DB:
MySQL, Java and Tomcat.

We need a page that always shows the last update of an issue in the database.
Each issue must be shown in a line with the ability to click on the link and get
all updates of that issue. Plus, in this page we need some graph from excel
sheet to be display.

Assume: data insert to DB manually.

I am thinking to use JSP and by using HTML "Refresh" tag show the last update in
specific intervals. However, I am not sure if I am in the right track or not.

Now my questions are:

1. Should I use static web project or dynamic one? We just need authentication
by LDAP at the front page and this portal should only contain one page. (totally
2 pages)

2. I do not intent to put myself in trouble, so I want to evade from AJAX if it
is possible. Do you think I can meet requirement just by using JSP?

3. How could I show those graphs and statistics data (Excel) in JSP page?

4. I am not clear how to design such portal. I'd appreciate if you give me your
idea.