AdXpress (Java projects)

ABSTRACT

            AdXpress is the largest single source of online intelligence for marketing, advertising, media and research communities worldwide. AdXpress  offers a FREE World Advertising and Marketing News email service, ensuring the top global stories are delivered daily to your inbox. Our free classifieds will expose your ads to local, regional and national buyers in different countries across the globe. AdXpressis a full featured classified ad manager website. AdXpressis designed to seamlessly integrate ads in this website.

AdXpress ad web site is organized using an easy-to-follow index so that you can locate the classified ads you're interested in quickly and easily. We hope you'll enjoy your visit and you will opt this site for placing the ads forever and you will definitely add our site as a bookmark in your web browser. Please come back and visit us again soon.

Welcome to AdXpress. We are pleased to be able to offer you free classified advertising over the Internet. AdXpress splits your screen up into various sections. At the home page there are list of menu options. These allow you to go straight to a category you want by navigating through the sub options.

There are two types of users who can use this system:                                                                    

1. Administrator

2. Member

This application allows the administrator us to manage the members through registration. He can also manage the categories and he has the right to place a new on his own, edit the ad or delete the add. Once member is registered he can place the ads in selective category. He can generate a report about which are placed by him, he can edit his ad and he deletes his add.

It allows the administrator to manage important links information, yellow pages and he can store the ad management tasks using this application, assign the tasks to different employees and check their status.

MODULE DESCRIPTION:

Administration Module

Ø  This module maintains the information about all the details of Members, i.e. Name, Email-D, location, Work Phone, Home Phone, Member Login Name and the password.

Ø  The administrator can member or else the member can register by going into registration option. When the administrator is trying to add a member he can add a member as well as another administrator also.

Ø  At the time of registration this application checks for duplicate users and gives appropriate messages.

Ø  The administration module the administrator can add, delete and edit the member information at any point of time. He can also search for a member.

Ø  The administrator can also manage different categories to maintain the ads very effectively. Creation of categories improves readability to the customer when we place all the ads in the site. If we categorize the ads into different types Announcements, Automobiles, Business opportunities, Computers and Software, Employment, Services, Pets and Animals then the customer can directly go into the selective categories to find appropriate ad.

Ad Management Module

Ø  This Module deals with management of Ads like creating the ads, editing and deleting the ads. At the time of New Ad creation this system ask the user to enter the details of the Ad like name of the Ad, Posted, Price, Description of the Ad and the place Ad in appropriate Category.

Ø  The user can create sub categories inside a main category for easy maintenance. For example we can create sub categories like Casinos, Apparels, Computers and Internet, Beverages, Marketing, Travel and Transportation and Telecommunications etc in main category Business opportunities.

Ø  The member can navigate through different categories and place the ad which has to be posted on a particular date.

Ø  The end user of this product is a Classifieds Maintenance Office which places the ads on their site where the application is hosted on the web and the administrator maintains the database.

Ø  The application which is deployed at the member database, the details of the categories are brought forward from the database for the customer view based on the selection through the menu and the database of all the ads are updated at the end of each transaction.

Links and Yellow Pages Module

Ø  This module allows the administrator to post the new links info which helps the customers to visit the important websites.

Ø  It also allows the administrator to post the information into yellow pages so that the customer can search for a person or service inside these yellow pages.

Ø  It acts like a telephone directory service from online. Administrator the manage above two information in different categories.

Task management Module

Ø  The last module allows the administrator to store the tasks which we need to complete for the clients related to our ad business.

Ø  Admin can assign these to different employees by using this application so that the employee can login and view the tasks assigned to him and complete the tasks assigned to him. Admin can set the priority for tasks when he is assigning the task to an employee.

Ø  The employee can change the status of the task after completion which will be intimated to the administrator automatically. He can view tasks status report. It allows the admin to maintain different customers info as well as different statuses info.

EXISTING SYSTEM:

Here the existing system is nothing but manual traditional new paper systems in which we can post the ads then the customer of new paper can only see these details. In this system the company will store the business information in a record which is not safe. We need assign the tasks and get status of the tasks from an employee manually.

Disadvantages:

Ø  Ad info can accessible for the customers of our new paper

Ø  Allows to post limited no of ads

Ø  Difficulty in managing different ads in different categories

Ø  Difficulty in updated the new links for each and every time

Ø  Difficulty in updated the yellow pages information

Ø  Difficulty in managing daily business activities of the company

Ø  Difficulty in tracking the tasks.

PROPOSED SYSTEM :

     Here the proposed system is to replace an existing system with a software solution using which we can post the ads in a classifieds portal sothat the customer this info from online by sitting at the home. Apart from it we can also post links and yellow pages information. We can track the tasks related to our ad business very easily from online.

Advantages:

Ø  Posting the ads in a portal which the customers can access from online

Ø  Posting new links and yellows info which the customer can utilize fromOnline

Ø  Allows to company to efficient manage their tasks

Ø  Allows the company to manage their agents and observe the business through an agent.

Ø  Allows to categorize the ads which customers to find out the InformationVery easily

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION:

Hardware Requirements:

Ø  Pentium IV Processor.

Ø  256 MB RAM.

Ø  40 GB Hard Disk space.

Ø  Ethernet card with an Internet and Internet zone.

Software Requirements:

Ø  Windows 2000/ XP operating system.

Ø  Internet explorer 5.0 and Netscape navigator.

Ø  MySqlServer.

Ø  Servlets,Jsp,Jdbc

Ø  Web Server as Tomcat.