Developing a Library System
The portfolio must include the following three elements:
- Project Documentation
- Source Code
- Project Demonstration
Whilst you can choose the scenario, but it must include the following features:
- More than one type of item to be loaned
- More than one option for each of the items (for example, if you are doing books, you might find that there are large print versions, ebooks, or normal print books)
- Ability to see current number of each item which is available for loan
- Ability to loan items, including tracking of who has loaned the items
- Ability to return items, together with providing details of fine for overdue items
- Ability to print information about a single item to a file. You should include the following information:
- Details about the item
- Number of copies available
- Number of copies on loan
- Earliest return date for any items on loan
- Ability to search for an item
- A login system, which includes:
- Different account types – standard and administrator
- Ability to register with the system – subject to administrator approval
- One other feature which is relevant, but not included here – this can be whatever you want, as long as it is an appropriate addition to a library loans system.
- Inheritance
- A database
- A Graphical User Interface (GUI) which utilises JavaFX or AWT/Swing
- At least 1 image for each item – displaying what the item is