Development update

Today we had a meeting but only Abdul and were there. Since both Nick and Evan had access to Mac computers at home Abdul and I have been assigned to do the server side components. At our meeting we discussed what components and functionality would be required and some of the technologies we would be using to impliment the web site.

We identified that the website would have to facilitate the following functions:

• Loggin in
• Registering (there will be the option to register online or by using the iPhone app)
• Administering the site (adding/removing users and their photos)
• There will be different functionality for users and for photo retailers.
• Users will be able to see the photos they have uploaded
• Photo retailers will be able to see the orders allocated to them and some statistics
• Photo retails will revieve emails for photo orders detailing their reurements and with their photo attached
• Users will get the details for where to pick up their photos within the app.

Abdul explaned some usefull frameworks that could help us develop the web site. These include:

• Hibernate - a Java library to help create and query database tables
• Spring - handles dependencies
• Smart GWT - A Java tool for designing interfaces.

Over the next few days I will be looking at these to learn what they can do for our project.