Franchise Management System

Ryan Audet, T.J. Lindsey, Samer Mansour

Franchise Management SystemA powerful tool for managing your franchise!A multi-level tool that provides functionality for all levels of

your business. Including owner, managers, employees and customers.

Tool provides management support for individual franchise stores as well as your franchise as a whole.

Framework provides easy creation of online store for your franchise with customizability and order tracking.

Flexible tool is designed to be used by any franchise.

TechnologyJSP front endJava Oracle databaseBIRT Reporting

Reason: We’ve all used JSP and Java, seemed reasonable to use it, less of a learning curve

Why JSP?Common technology

all group members were familiar with.

Allow for application to be deployable in a non-web environment with a different front-end.

Experience relevant to industry.

Why Java?FreeWorks on many

platforms and operating systems

Good for web based and network applications

We all know it!

Why Oracle?Technology we are

all familiar withGood experience for

industryEasily provided by

the school.Allows us to have

one database rather than many while developing.

Why BIRT?Easy set up and deploy in tomcat. Reports are easy to design.

Development ToolsNet BeansSQL DeveloperSSHTortoise SVN and

Assembla

Problems FacedTunnelling to Oracle using VistaSolution: Don’t use Vista.Google Maps APIProblems: Bloated, Requires live website.Solution: Do not use API. Allow managers to add links to

google maps but no other map functionality.School’s servers were down constantly.

Successes AchievedGetting our environment set up Its always the hardest partMail ServletCustomizabilityDesignDatabase set up and making tables

Progress – Milestone 1Requirements DocumentOutline all major requirementsAdd new requirements to expand projectOutline possible additional requirements if time permitsCreate Use-Cases for some requirements

Progress – Milestone 2Architecture and Design DocumentsArchitecture ModelObject Model Inheritance Model

Proof of ConceptsEmailGoogle MapsCustomization

Progress – How are we doing?Less code done than expectedBetter design, understandingGot over most of the technical hurdlesShould be easier from here on out

FutureAdd a lot of basic functionalityAdd more customizabilityImplement BIRTJust keep building

Future – Expected Issues60-454 sucks already, we can see that getting

in the way.

Questions?