Meeting 3

Minutes of meeting 2 (13/3/07)

People present - James, Feng-Ming, Rob, Mark

Database design

Discussed the current format of the database and considered implementing a staff table to store details about staff members. Agreed that this is not essential to the application and may serve to complicate the database design as well as the JDBC code without adding any real extra functionality.

Added email address to the customer table.

Task Allocation

Discussed implications of workload for JDBC versus JSP and decided to share JDBC code evenly in order to allow all members the chance to learn and code JDBC before moving onto JSP, which will hopefully give us a better understanding of what we expect the JDBC to offer us in terms of functionality.

I have already written some basic Exception classes and Rob and I have come up with API's for 3 classes - Book, Order and Customer.
We have assigned some Java code writing to each member to have done by Thursday;

Mark - Outline methods that we need to provide access to our database.
Rob - Write Customer class.
James - Write Book class.
Feng-Ming - Write Order class.

Deliverables

On Thursday, we expect to have some reports into research by each team member, concentrating on the area(s) that we have covered so far. Database design is to be modified by Rob, and we will all consider revisions to our requirements and Gantt chart.

I also hope to have a brief guide to getting postgresql setup on our home computers, and details on how to get netbeans to communicate with the database done by tomorrow which will allow us to work from home.

Next meeting - 15/3/07 12.00pm. Agenda - review current position, complete deliverables, assign JDBC tasks and start JSP implementation.