shuaibw / javafxproject

Term project for Level 1 Term 2

Car Inventory Manager with JavaFX

Term Project for L1T2

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An inventory manager for cars with multi-threading and local networking support. This project was aimed to learn about networking and multi-threading in Java. A demonstration can be found here

Features

• Login as seller, add/remove/update cars from inventory
• Login as buyer, buy/view cars from all available sellers
• Support for multiple instances of sellers and buyers
• All information between buyers and sellers are updated synchronously

Pre-requisites

• Download openjfx 11.0.2 and unzip contents
• Clone and open this repository in any suitable Java IDE (IntelliJ IDEA preferred)
• Add openjfx-11.0.2/lib to project libraries. From IntelliJ, this can be done by navigating to Project structure -> Libraries -> +

Getting Started

• src/server/Server.java is responsible for handling authentication requests and synchronizing data between multiple instances. Run Server.main() first. The login information can be found in Server.java. Users with access=1 are sellers, and customers are with access=0.
• src/gui/Main.java is responsible for the GUI interface. Run Main.main() and the app should be connected to server upon running. Login with the user information stored in Server.java.
• Multiple instances of the GUI can be run if needed. For this, enable Allow multiple instances in the edit/run configuration within IntelliJ.