A Multiuser Distributed Meeting Scheduler BY Divya Teja Dadi

Agenda  Project Overview & Motivation  Goals  Issues that had to be addressed  Problem solving approach (How does it work?)  Summary  References

Motivation  Why is it important to schedule meetings?  Why this project?  How is it different compared to other applications?

Goals  To create a user-friendly calendar interface  To send meeting requests via  To access calendar information of the meeting participants

Project Outline  Client server model  Clients should be able to log in to the system and send meeting requests  View available slots on each participant’s calendar before sending the request  The receiver should be able to accept/deny the request

Issues that had to be addressed  Ability to create, edit and move events on the calendar  Ability to send  Storing all the information in an appropriate database management system  Viewing the available meeting slots

Problem solving approach (How does it work?)  Tomcat Web server

 Implement AJAX programming for dynamic interaction of data

 Create servlets that help process events depending on whether the event is a new event or a saved event  Gmail SMTP server and Javamail jar files

 Use SQL server database that provides ACID(Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability) features  Used HSQLDB embedded database for initial testing purposes  Using Java programs to retrieve data from the database

Summary I have managed to build a prototype which performs basic operations such as:  Creating an event  Moving/editing/deleting an event  Send to people who are included in the meeting invite  Used Database for security and recovery purposes

References  1. Olli Korjus, Meeting Scheduling Assistant : Automatic scheduling between heterogeneous calendar systems. p , 30,37http://lib.tkk.fi/Dipl/2012/urn pdf  2. Ismel Brito a and Pedro Meseguer, Distributed Meeting Scheduling. p  

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