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REAL ESTATE PORTALAND FORUM

By:

SWATI BIRLA(07BCE018)

PARTH GOYAL(07BCE038)

At

Right Click Solutions

Ahmedabad

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Ahmedabad - 382481

April 2011


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REAL ESTATE PORTAL

AND FORUMMajor Project

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements

For the degree of

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering

By:SWATI BIRLA(07BCE018)


Guided By

Mr. Vishal Shah Prof.Sanjay GargTechnical Head Section Head

Right Click Solutions Department of CS

Ahmedabad Institute of Technology

Nirma University

Ahmedabad

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Ahmedabad - 382481

April 2011


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CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the Major Project entitled Real Estate

Portal and Forum submitted by Ms. Swati Birla and Mr. Parth

Goyal towards the partial fulfillment of the requirements for the

degree of Bachelor Of Technology Computer Engineering of

Nirma University of Science and Technology, Ahmedabad is

the record of work carried out by him under my supervision

and guidance. In my opinion, the submitted work has

reached a level required for being accepted for examination.

The results embodied in this major project, to the best of

my knowledge, havent been submitted to any other

university or institution for award of any degree or diploma.

Prof.Sanjay Garg Prof. D J Patel

Section Head Head of Department

Department of CS Engineering Department of CS & IT

Institute of Technology Institute of Technology

Nirma University Nirma University

Ahmedabad Ahmedabad


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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Gratitude is a feeling which is more eloquent than words, more

tranquil than silence..

It gives me great pleasure in expressing thanks and profound

gratitude to Mr. Vishal Shah , Technical Head , Right Click

Solutions , Ahmedabad for his continual support throughout the

project work.I would also like to thank my Faculty Guide

Prof.Sanjay Garg , Section Head , Department of Computer

Engineering , Institute of Technology , Nirma University ,

Ahmedabad for his valuable guidance and constant

encouragement throughout the Major Project .

I am also thankful to Prof. D. J. Patel , Head of Department ,

Department of Computer Engineering and Information

Technology , Nirma University , Ahmedabad for his continual

kind words of encouragement and motivation throughout the

Major Project.I am also thankful to Prof. Ketan Kotecha ,

Director, Institute of Technology for his kind support in all

respects during my studyI am thankful to all faculty members of Department Of Computer

Science , Nirma University , Ahmedabad for their special

attention and suggestions towards the project work

I am also thankful to Right Click Solution for providing me with

the opportunity to work for the company.

The blessings of God and my family Members made the way for

completion of the Major project. I am very much grateful to

them.I am immensely thankful to my friends, who always stood beside

and motivated me throughout this course.

By:

SWATI BIRLA(07BCE018)



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ABSTRACT

The Project REAL ESTATE WEB PORTAL AND FORUM has beendeveloped for Property Hub-a firm dealing with Real Estate

Transactions.

This project is an online web portal wherein a Direct party or a

3rd party Agent can post the details regarding the property

which they wish to sell/purchase outright or sell/purchase on

lease. It also gives the user an option to post their requirements

of a property they wish to purchase or take on rent. The user cankeep track of his posted properties/requirements through his

personalized account. This portal will make it very easy for users

to find the right kind of property by making use of the various

search criteria like city, price, property type etc. Additionally a

registered user can directly communicate with the owner of the

property he is interested in by sending email directly from his

account .Thereby, making the transaction very easy and

convenient.

The project also provides a comprehensive administrator panel

which helps the admin to manage properties and users easily.

The admin can also modify database of the property and

additional parameters like city,category.

A separate Forum to discuss various topics/problems regarding

Real-Estate will also be available to the users. Forum will helpthe registered users to interact by using interactive posts and

personal messages, thereby leading to faster solving of queries

and facilitation of property transactions.

A separate Admin panel for forum is also provided from. The

admin can control various forum regulations ,posts and

moderators who in turn will keep tab on the topics and posts


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submitted by the users ,thereby filtering out any spam or

inappropriate content.

Various findings emerged such:

Enormous Scope of Java.

Scope of various kinds of Java and Java-based technologies.

Widely used SDLC practices.

Various kinds of deliverables and delivery times during

SDLC.


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CONTENTSCertificate I

Acknowledgement III

Abstract IVContents VI

List of Abbreviations and Nomenclature X

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 About the Company 1

1.1.1 Introduction of the Company 1

1.1.2 Quality Policy 5

1.1.3 Communication 6

1.2 The System 6

1.2.1 Definition of the System 6

1.2.2 Project Development Model 6

1.2.3 Concerned Audiences and Users 8

1.2.4 Purpose and Objectives 8

1.2.5 Proposed System 9

1.3 Project Profile 14

1.3.1 Project Title 14

1.3.2 Scope of the Project 14

1.3.3 Project Team 15

1.3.4 Hardware/Software Environment in the company 16

CHAPTER 2 SYSTEM ANALYSIS

2.1 Feasibility Study 17

2.1.1 Operational Feasibility 17

2.1.2 Technical Feasibility 18

2.1.3 Financial and Economic Feasibility 19

VI


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2.2 Requirement Analysis 19

2.2.1 Fact Finding Techniques 19

2.3 Context Diagram 23

2.4 Data Flow Diagrams 24

2.4.1 Level I Diagrams 24

2.4.2 Level II Diagrams 25

CHAPTER 3 SYSTEM DESIGN

3.1 System Architecture 29

3.1.1 Model View Controller Architecture 29

3.1.2 Project Architecture (Detailed) 32

3.2 Class Diagram 35

3.3 Sequence Diagrams (Flow) 37

3.4 Data Dictionary and Table Diagram 39

CHAPTER 4 USER MANUAL

4.1 Screens/GUI (with Description) 47

CHAPTER 5 TESTING 54

CHAPTER 6 FUTURE ENHANCEMENT 58

CHAPTER 7 APPENDIX7.1 Description of the Technology Used 60

7.1.1 Java Server Faces 60

7.1.2 Hibernate 64

7.1.3 Spring 68

VII


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7.2 Description of the Tools Used 71

7.2.1 IBM WebSphere Integration Developer 71

7.2.2 PL/SQL Developer 72

7.3.3 Crystal Report Designer 74

7.3.4 Sybase PowerDesigner 75

7.3.5 Oracle 10g 76

CHAPTER 8 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION

8.1 Summary 78

8.2 Conclusions 78

CHAPTER 9 BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES

9.1 Bibliography 79

9.2 References 79


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1. INTRODUCTION

1.1ABOUT THE COMPANY

RIGHT CLICK SOLUTIONS is a MULTI-DIMENSIONAL & MULTI-

FUNCTIONAL Institute with its base at Ahmedabad and operations spread

all over Gujarat. The promoters have very rich experience in the field of

Technology oriented education. They are operational in the industry for

providing qualitative education for developing future professional for the

industry. They not only concentrate on the project or subjective training

of the student, They also work on the overall development of the

students to develop them in to outstanding professional in their

respective field, so that they can meet the challenges of the industry in

future.

Services:-

Consulting(Technology, IT development & support system)

Development(customized software, web design-development, SEO

etc.)

They have three different divisions.

Internship / Project training division.

Additional skills development division. Software solutions development division.

All the divisions are equipped with the necessary manpower and physical

resources. They are of ISO quality and highly competitive to required

industry standards.

1.2 THE SYSTEM

1.2.1 Definition of the System

The Project REAL ESTATE WEB PORTAL is an online web portal wherein

a Direct party or a 3rd party Agent can post the details regarding the

property which they wish to sell/purchase outright or sell/purchase on

lease. This portal will make it very easy for users to find the right kind of

property by making use of the search criteria or to find buyers for their


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property. A separate Forum to discuss various topics/problems regarding

Real-Estate will also be available to the users.

The project will make it easy for the buyer and the seller to communicate

easily by providing e-mail facility. Forum will help the registered users to

interact by using interactive posts and personal messages, thereby leading

to faster solving of queries and facilitation of property transactions.

The project also provides a comprehensive administrator panel which

helps the admin to manage properties and users easily. The admin can also

modify database of the property and additional parameters like

city,category.

1.2.2 Project Development Model

A software development model is a simplified description/abstract

representation of a software process which is presented from a particular

perspective. A development model for software engineering is chosen

based on the nature of the project and application, the methods and the

tools to be used, and the controls and the deliverables that are required.

All software development can be characterized as a problem solving loop

in which four distinct stages are encountered:

Status Quo: Represents the current state of affairs.

Problem Definition: Identifies the specific problem to be solved.

Technical Development: Solves the problem through application of

some technology.

Solution Integration: Delivers the results like documents, programs,

data, etc. to those who requested the solution.


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There are many software development models. REAL ESTATE PORTAL AND

FORUM follows the Spiral model.

SPIRAL MODEL

The spiral model of software development and evolution represents a risk

driven approach to software process analysis and structuring. This

approach incorporates elements of specification-driven, prototype-drivenprocess methods, together with the classic software life cycle. It does so

by representing iterative development cycles as an expanding spiral, with

inner cycles denoting early system analysis and prototyping, and outer

cycles denoting the classic software life cycle. Every iterative cycle of the

spiral model consists of the following:

Customer Communication

Planning

Risk Analysis

Engineering

Construction and Release

Customer Evaluation

The evolutionary process starts from the core of the spiral from the

customer communication region and revolves in a clockwise direction as ifit was coming out of the spiral.

The spiral model is considered as one of the most popular system process

flow model as it contains the repeated execution of SDLC till the

completion of the process. Some of its benefits are:

Focuses attention on reuse options.

Focuses attention on early error elimination.

Puts quality objectives upfront.

Integrates development and maintenance.

Provides a framework for hardware/software development.


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1.2.3 Users and Target Audience of the System

Admin

Can update/modify content of the website

Can accept/reject user registration.

Can update/add/remove database.

Forum Moderator

Filtration of spam

Filtration of posts based on relevance

Checking of posts whether they are in the right

category

End User-Direct party

Posting of the details of single property

Can search for properties Can contact owners/agents of a property

Can receive notifications/messages/mails

End User-3rd party agent

Posting of details of multiple properties

Can update its own profile

Can search for properties

Can contact owners/agents of a property

Can receive notifications/messages/mails

Forum user

Can post a new topic under various categories

Can comment/reply to an existing thread

Can send messages to other members

Can update its own profile

Can upload photo


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1.2.4 Purpose and Objectives

The Real Estate Web Portal and Forum is basically made to assist users to

search ,buy and sell Properties online 24*7.

The project will have the following modules and features:

HOME PAGE MODULE REGISTRATION MODULE

SEARCH MODULE

LOGIN MODULE

FORUM

SITE MAP

LINKS TO FEATURED PROPERTIES

LINKS TO PROPERTY AGENTS

The Facility given to the users:

Search facility using various parameters like

city,price,category and property Type.

Creation of a personal account

Posting of Property through the account

Posting of Requirements through the account

Managing the Property/Requirement Details Editing profile

Posting topics/replies in the Forum

Communication facility with the owner directly.

The Facility given to the Administrator

Manage users database

Manage Properties database

Manage various Parameters like city,category.

Monitoring content and removing it if deemed necessary.


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1.2 PROJECT PROFILE

1.3.1 Project Title

The Title of the Project is Real estate Web Portal and Forum.

1.2.1 Scope of the ProjectIn the current scenario, there are not many real estate web portalswhich have all the features as has been described above.Hence the scope of the project is immense as real estate sector is a verydominant market player in the market right now.

1.2.2 Project TeamThe Team consisted of 2 project trainees under the direct supervision of the

Project Leader who is the Technical Head of the company.

1.2.3 Hardware/Software Requirements in the Company Environment

Hardware Ram -1 to 2 GBHard disk-80 GB to 160 GBProcessor-2GHz

Technology Spring, JSP, Struts(2.0), JQuery, AJAX, EJB(3.0),JavaScript

Software Eclipse Galileo versionMicrosoft DreamweaverPostGREsql

jScript enabled browser (end user side)jBoss or GlassFish Server (server side)

Database Oracle 10g

Report Generation Tool i-Text

Documentation Microsoft 2003

Operating System Windows Xp,7

1.2.4 Functional Requirements

REGISTRATION MODULE

SEARCH MODULE LOGIN MODULE

FORUM

SITE MAP

LINKS TO FEATURED PROPERTIES

LINKS TO PROPERTY AGENTS


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REGISTRATION MODULE

Property Registration by Direct Party

Form for Property Details-Sale or Purchase

Personal Information Form

Validation for Information Entered

Email notification and confirmation

Register as Service Provider

Form for Property Details-Sale or Purchase

Personal Information Form

Validation for Information Entered

Email notification and confirmation

SEARCH MODULE

Search by Property type

By price range / rent range

By Category

By locality / location

By agent / direct party etc.

By keywords

LOGIN MODULE

Login as Direct Party/service provider

Verification

Password recovery

FORUM

Forum registration

Personal details Form

CAPTCHA verification

Email notification for activation of account


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Forum login

Login form

Password recovery

Verification

Member accounts

Personal details

Message inbox

Message sending facility to other members

Facility to see all posts published

Facility to see the forum activity

Modification of personal details

Deletion of account

Topics classification according to :

General discussion

Finance, Tax. Legal, Accounting

Real Estate in Indian cities

General Investment Discussions

Architects and Interior design

Fengshui and VaastuShastra

Advertisement

Topic initiation by members

Addition of comments to existing forum threads by

members

Search forum facility

By owner of the thread

By thread topic Additional search parameters-age of the thread

Weekly Emails, Newsletters and information bulletin to all

the members

Help bulletin for Forum

Moderator account for Forum


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SITEMAP

Links to all important modules/pages

CONTACT PROPERTY OWNERS

Mail sending facility to the owner

Mail sending facility to the agent

1.2.5 NON FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Security and Privacy Requirements

Users will have unique login Id and Password and also the

users have limited access as per the role assigned to them.

Usability Requirements

The UI of the system shall be user friendly.

Quality Requirements

The system shall be efficient and portable.

The system will be also be reliable and consistent as per the

database is considered.

Maintenance Requirements

Up-gradation of the current version of the system being

developed can be done easily by adding new features.


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2. SYSTEM ANALYSIS

2.1 FEASIBILITY STUDY

An important outcome of the preliminary investigation phase of the

System Development Life cycle is the determination that the requested

system is feasible. The following facets describe the feasibility:

Operational Feasibility

Technical Feasibility

Financial and Economic Feasibility

Knowledge about handling infeasible projects

2.1.1 Operational Feasibility

The proposed system is beneficial if and only if it can be turned into an

information system that will meet the operating requirements of the

organization. This facet of feasibility asks: if the system will work when it is

developed and installed and are there any major barriers for systemimplementation and many more issues.

Issue 1:

Is the system user Friendly.

The system has been developed keeping in mind the needs of a real estate

user and assuming no prior knowledge of using such systems by the users.Also there has been a constant testing and feedback among the

employees to test its userfriendliness. Hence the system is user friendly.

Issue 2:

Are there enough checks to check whether the user is genuine or not..

The system has comprehensive user checks that ensures that the user is a

genuine one. Also there is captcha verification and in addition to that the


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user is approved only after all the details are verified by the

administrator. So this way admin has the power to approve or delete the

user.This facet of feasibility i.e. Operational Feasibility, hence

concentrates on many such issues and gives their solutions.

2.1.2 Technical Feasibility

The investigation is done mainly keeping in mind this aspect of feasibility.

The analyst has to keep in mind while performing requirement elicitation

that the requested work flow is what is feasible technically. The following

issues can be raised while the investigation is underway:-

Issue 1:

Can the work for the project be done with the current equipment,

existing software technology and available resources.

The system is basically a website portal and forum that can be easily

implemented using the present technologies and hence this is not a

hindrance.

Issue 2:

Does the proposed equipment have the capacity to process and hold the

kind of data involved..

The System involves a huge database which will be hosted on a reliable

web server and hence the database will be easily managed.

2.1.3 Financial and Economic Feasibility

This facet of feasibility is of paramount importance in development of any

software for any particular company. Right Click solution is having licensedversions of the required software (Eclipse,PostGresql, Oracle 10g).

Hardware Costs mainly involve the cost of the hosting the website and the

database.

The economic and financial constraints are not an issue for this project as

the cost of the project is very less.


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2.2 REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS

2.2.1 Fact- Finding Techniques

The client in most cases is not sure of what exactly is desired and has a

poor understanding of the computing environment. But the client

involved in this case is a real estate firm and has an idea what its

competitor have developed and has somewhat clear idea about the

website and the features it wants . But translation of the world

requirements into the domain specific knowledge is easy in this case as

the communication process is strong.

But again the basic fact finding techniques do come into play and the ones

employed in the project are as follows:

Interviews Negotiations Discussions Looking at the competitors system.

The following techniques are present unambiguously throughout the

project

2.2.2. Interviews

The first phase of interviews is mainly a kind of informal discussions with

the client. In this phase the analysts who are the evangelists in the process

of requirement elicitation generally do the following:

Ask a set of Informal Context Free Questions regarding the system.

Talk through with the client to know his intention with regard to the

project.

Define a business case for the idea along with the performance of

certain kind of market analysis.

Identify a working description of the projects scope.


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The later phases of interviews involve the following kind of facets:

Discussion on the Division of the entire thing into manageable and

doable modules.

Module wise interviews with the various personnel involved.

Certain kind of debatable presentations which may be clubbed with

brainstorming or prototyping sessions.

This mode of requirement gathering is the one that provides the

maximum amount of information regarding the project and hence is used

very effectively. This mode can turn into all various forms ranging fromstrict one room interviews to large debatable discussions.

Data Dictionary of entire module

We developed and analyzed the entire Data Dictionary to find out the

correlations that existed between the necessary tables and other

unwanted ones. And hence I could sort out the ER statement from the

Data Dictionary provided.

Technical SRS (with Business Analysis)

This was a typical SRS that gave us the specific requirements along with

the Business rules that need to be employed.


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3. SYSTEM DESIGN

3.1 SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

3.1.1 Model View Controller Architecture

The Model-View-Controller architecture is a widely-used architectural

approach for an application where there is user interaction. The basic idea

of Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture is the separation of the user

interface of an application from its domain logic. It divides the

functionality among objects involved in maintaining and presenting data

to minimize the degree of coupling (relationship) between the objects.

Basically, it separates business, navigation and presentation logic.

MVC is organized into three separate areas:

Model Model includes the data of the application, along with the

business logic that defines how to change and access that data. The Model

can be shared among any number of view and controller objects. The

Model object knows about the data that need to be displayed. It also

knows about all the operations that can be applied to transform that data.

However, it knows nothing about the GUI and the manner in which thedata is to be displayed.

View View represents the means of presenting the Model's data to the

outside world. This could take the form of a GUI, generated speech,

audible tones, printouts, or even non-user oriented output, such as

turning on an air conditioner. A view renders the contents of a Model. It

accesses the enterprise data through the model and specifies how that

data should be presented.

Controller Controller represents a means of gathering user input and

providing feedback to the model, handle requests, and control application

flow. Controller contains no business logic and deals strictly with exposing

the methods contained in the Model to the user through the View. A

Controller translates the user interactions with the View into actions to be

performed by the Model. Controller is represented by a Servlet. Controller

centralizes the logic for dispatching requests to the next view based on

the request URL, input parameters, and application state.


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DB

Figure 3.1 MVC Architecture

3

controller

4.

5.3.

7. 9.8.

6. 10. 2. 1.useracts

model view

Figure 3.2 Common MVC Architectural Flow


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Steps of MVC Architectural Flow:

1. The end user manipulates the view.

2.

The user's actions are interpreted by the view.3. The view passes the users actions to the controller.

4. Based on the action, the controller decides what should be done.

5. The controller delegates/calls the appropriate model to act upon the

command.

6. The model acts independently by processing the inputs. Model usually

accesses the database and performs some business logic on the data.

7. After the model is finished. The controller decides what view should be

returned to the end user. Example, login controller decides the next view

to display after a sign on very likely depends on: the user id and password

contained in the request, the success or failure of the sign on operation,

the URL the user was trying to access etc.

8. The controller gets all the information needed from the model.

9. The controller passes the information to the view.

10. The view displays the information in its own way.

Advantages and disadvantages

Overall, MVC design approach provides several key advantages over other

approaches in interactive applications:

Allows the decoupling of presentation logic and business logic.

Separation of concerns makes the code cleaner and easier tounderstand.

Eases maintenance burden. For Example, changes made to

business logic are less likely to break the presentation (view).

Facilitates multi-team development. Developers can focus on

business code and UI designers can focus in building the view

without worrying about the backend code.


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The disadvantages of MVC architecture:

Increases design complexity. MVC introduces some extra

classes/code due to the separation of Model, View, and

Controller.

Requires large amount of configurations and architecture work.

3.1.2 Project Architecture (Detailed)

Figure 3.3 Project Architecture

The project involves three layers:-

Presentation Layer:

JSF, Page Code and VO.

This layer comprises of a set of Page code, VO and jsp pages. Every jsp

page has an associated VO which mainly contains the properties that are

bound to the components on the jsp page. Page code acts as a container

for a set of methods that are to be executed as a result of actions that

take place on the screen. Page code is responsible for making a call to a

method in Controller.


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Controller:

Controller is responsible for separating the presentation layer and the

business layer. Controller ensures that presentation layer is unaware of

the business logic. Controller does not contain any business logic. It simply

invokes a method in Service.

Business Layer:

Service:

Service is entirely spring managed which means that an object of service

would be returned to controller by Inversion of Control. Service is

responsible for making a call to Use-case Specific Service and also convertsVO to BO (Value Object to Business Object). Basically, a business object is

an object which represents as enterprise data. It can be taken to be an

object of a persistent class, i.e. a class which gets stored in a database.

Since, only a business object can be saved into a database, conversion

from VO to BO is inevitable.

VO Builder:

VO Builder is responsible for converting VO to BO, when VO is passed from

the front end. Also, it converts BO to VO when either a single BO or a list

of BOs is passed from DAO.

Use-Case Specific Service:

A Service is split in a set of use-case specific services. This facilitates

parallel development of the components of a module. Since, SACR has

three components Consultants, Tasks, Proceedings, would have three

different use-case specific services.


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Persistence Layer:

Data Access Objects:

Data access objects represent the persistent layer. Data access objects are

responsible for dealing with database.

Advantages:

Enhances Maintainability:

Since, the presentation logic, business logic and the persistence logic are

clearly separated, it becomes easier to debug and maintain the code.

Facilitates multi-team development:

Developers can focus on business code and UI designers can focus in

building the view without worrying about the backend code

Disadvantage(s):

Increases design complexity:

Such a layered architecture introduces large number of classes. Hence,

there are a large number of files to be dealt with even in a single module.


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3.2 CLASS DIAGRAMS

3.2.1 Real Estate Portal


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3.2.2 FORUM


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3.3 E R DIAGRAM

Property

ID

No Of

Bedroom

Contact

Number

Total

Category

ID

Area

Square

Foot

Proper

Addres

Area ID

Property

Category Type

Property

ID

Category

ID

Property

No

User

Name

Mobile No

Password

Security

Question

Type

User ID

Email ID

Pincode

City

Address

Date Of

Birth

Gender

Answer

Area ID

Area

Name

Area

HasHas

Has

Has

Has


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3.3 USE CASE DIAGRAMS

3.3.1 Member Real Estate

3rd party agent

update property

update profile

view profile

login

register

remove property

add property

search property

contact-email

extends

extends

extends

extends

extends

extends

extends

extends

extends


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3.3.5 FORUM USER

forum user

login

register

update profile

view profile

start a new topic

reply to the

current thread

view posts

search post

extends

extends

extends

extends

extends

extends

extends

extends


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3.4 DATA FLOW DIAGRAMS

3.4.1 Real estate User login ,search

3rd

party agent

login

Search

property

registration

Property

database

User database

Userinfo,confirmation

Search criteria,

Property details

User

id,password,

Profileinfo

Use

rinfo

User

id,passwo

rd

Searchcriteria

Level-1 Data Flow Diagram

3.4.2 Forum User Actions

Forum userlogin

New topic

posting

Post reply

User id pass

Topicname,content,category

Reply

conte

nt

User database

Comment

database

Replycontent

User id pass

Reply

conte

nt

Level -1 Data Flow Diagram


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3.4.3 Search Property

Level -2 Data flow Diagram


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3.5 SEQUENCE DIAGRAMS

3.5.1 BUY PROPERTY

3.5.2 PROPERTY ON RENT


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3.5.3 SEARCH BUY/RENT

3.6 ACTIVITY DIAGRAM

Admin

Enter Detail

Report

Selection

List Of Available Property

User

Log In

Display Results


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3.7 DATA DICTIONARY AND TABLES USED

3.7.1 PROPERTY

TABLE NAME::PROPERTY

ATTRIBUTES

NAME TYPE DESCRIPTION

PROP_ID (PRIMARY KEY) NUMBER PRIMARY KEY

PROP_DATE DATE DATE OF ENTRY

PROP _CATEGORY_ID STRING RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL

PROP_PHOTO BYTES SNAPSHOT

PROP_LISTINGTYPE_ID STRING SALE/PURCHASE,LEASE-AVAIL/LEASE -WANTED

PROPERTYTYPE_ID NUMBER FOREIGN KEY-PROPERTY TYPE TABLE

PROP_CITY_ID STRING CITY OF LOCATION

MEMBER_ID (FOREIGN KEY) NUMBER OWNER'S ID -FOREIGN KEY

PROP_VALUE NUMBER VALUE OF THE PROPERTY/RENT

PROPDETAILS_ID NUMBER AREA,ADDRESS,LOCALITY -

PROP_FEATURES STRING SET

ALL ADITIONAL FEATURES LIKE SECURITY,LUXURY

ETC

PROP_PLOT_ LAYOUT STRING NO.OF ROOMS

3.7.2 MEMBER

TABLE NAME::MEMBER AGENT

ATTRIBUTES


ID (PRIMARY KEY) NUMBER

NAME STRING NAME OF THE MEMBER

CITY STRING CITY OF LIVING

EMAILADRRESS STRING EMAIL Id

USERID STRING

PASSWORD STRING

TYPE STRING DIRECT PARTY/AGENT

CONTACT PERSON NAME STRING

COMAPANY NAME STRING

ADDRESS STRING

PROFILE STRING

CONTACT NO STRING

WEBSITE STRING


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3.7.3 PROPERTY DETAILS

3.7.4 CITY

TABLE NAME::CITY

ATTRIBUTES


CITY_ID NUMBER

CITY_NAME STRING

PROP_ID NUMBER FOREIGN KEY

3.7.5 CATEGORY

TABLE NAME::PROPERTY CATEGORY

ATTRIBUTES


CATEGORY_ID NUMBER

CATEGORY_NAME STRING

TYPE_ID NUMBER FOREIGN KEY

PROPERTY_ID NUMBER

TABLE NAME::Property Details

ATTRIBUTES


ID NUMBER

ADDRESS STRING

LOCALITY STRING

CONSTRUCTION AREA NUMBER

DISPLAYNO BOOLEAN

WHETHER TO DISPLAY TELEPHONE

NUMBER

PROP_ID NUMBER FOREIGN KEY


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3.7.6 PROPERTY TYPE

TABLE NAME::PROPERTY TYPE

ATTRIBUTES


TYPE_ID NUMBER

TYPE_NAME STRING

CATEGORY_ID NUMBER

PROPERTY_ID NUMBER


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4. USER MANUAL

The following are the screens with their description:


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5. TESTING

5.1 LOGIN PAGE

Label Input Actual Output Expected Output SuccessfulYes/ No

User

Name

Null Incorrect username or

password

Incorrect username or

password

Yes

User1 - - Yes

Password Null Incorrect username or

password

Incorrect username or

password

Yes

User1 - - Yes

5.2 LOGIN PAGE

Label Input Actual Output Expected Output Successful

Yes/No

Name Null Required field cannot be

empty

Required field cannot

be empty

Yes

User1 - - Yes

Gender Null Required field cannot be

empty


be empty

Yes

Address Null Required field cannot be

empty


be empty

Yes

City Null Required field cannot be

empty


be empty

Yes

Mobile no Null Required field cannot be

empty


be empty

Yes

Mobile No. Alphabets Invalid Input Invalid Input Yes

Email ID Null Required field cannot be

empty


be empty

Yes

Email ID Wrong

format of

email

Enter email in the right

format

Enter email in the right

format

Yes

User id Required field cannot be

empty


be empty

Yes

User1 - - Yes

Password Null Required field cannot be

empty


be empty

Yes

Password Passwords

different

Password dont match

with each other

Password dont match

with each other

Yes

Password Less than 6

characters

Password is less than 6

characters

Password is less than 6

characters

Yes

Listing Type Null Required field cannot be

empty


be empty

Yes

Category Null Required field cannot be

empty


be empty

Yes


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5.3 SEARCH PROPERTY


Yes/No

Listing

Type

Null Required field cannot be

empty

Required field cannot be

empty

Yes

DropDown

- - Yes

City Null Required field cannot be

empty


empty

Yes

City - - Yes

Property

Type


empty


empty

Yes

flat - - Yes

Price Null Required field cannot be

empty


empty

Yes

2,00,000 - - Yes

5.4 EDIT PROFILE


Yes/No

User name Null Required field cannot be

empty


empty

Yes

User1 - - Yes

Old

Password


empty


empty

Yes

User1 - - Yes

New

password


empty


empty

Yes

Hardik - - Yes

Confirm

password


empty


empty

Yes

Hardik - - Yes

Password Different

password

Passwords dont match Passwords dont match Yes

5.5 LINK TESTING

Scenario Actual Output Expected Output Successful

Yes/No

Trying to Add

property/Requirement

without logging in

Redirection to error

page

Redirection to error

page

Yes

Trying to contact

owner without logging

in

- Redirection to error

page

No


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5.6 ADD PROPERTY

Label Input Actual Output Expected Output SuccessfulYes/No

Category Null Required field cannot be

empty


empty

Yes

Drop Down - - Yes

Listing Type Null Required field cannot be

empty


empty

Yes

Drop Down - - Yes

Area Null Required field cannot be

empty


empty

Yes

Property

Address


empty


empty

Yes

Address - - Yes

Property

Features


empty


empty

No

Checkbox - - Yes

Layout Null Required field cannot be

empty


empty

Yes

2BHK - - Yes

Area in sqft Null Required field cannot be

empty


empty

Yes

Area in

sqft

- - Yes

Total Price Null Required field cannot be

empty


empty

Yes

Amount - - Yes


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6. FUTURE ENHANCEMENT

The Search Criteria will be more extensive from currently 4 parameters to 7-8

parameters which can take into consideration the locality, keywords, etc.

SMS Updates to the Registered Users.

Newsletters on Email of the Registered Users.

Integration of Advertisement Module in the System.

Usage of Jquery Validation to improve the Presentation of the website.

Improving the Presentation of the Forum.


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7. APPENDIX

7.1 DESCRIPTION OF TECHNOLOGY USED

7.1.1 Hibernate

7.1.1.1 Introduction

Hibernate is a Java framework that provides object/relational mapping mechanisms

to define how Java objects are stored, updated, deleted, and retrieved. Hibernate

helps in developing persistent classes following common Java idiom - including

association, inheritance, polymorphism, composition and the Java collections

framework. The Hibernate Query Language, designed as a minimal object-oriented

extension to SQL, provides an elegant bridge between the object and relational

worlds. Hibernate is now considered as the most popular object/relational mapping

solution for Java.

One of its unique features is that Hibernate does not require the developers to

implement proprietary interfaces or extend proprietary base classes in order for

classes to be made persistent. Instead, Hibernate relies on Java reflection and

runtime augmentation of classes using a powerful, high-performance, code-

generation library for Java called CGLIB. CGLIB is used to extend Java classes and

implement Java interfaces at runtime.

7.1.1.1 Features of Hibernate

Hibernate allows automatic generation of primary key. The manner in which the

primary key is to be generated is specified in hibernate mapping file.

Hibernate executes independently of the platform.

Hibernate helps to minimize the code length. Consider that it is required to

update the data in the database. Following JDBC, we would be required to

specify an update query after obtaining the connection and statement object.

Whereas, Hibernate only requires the user to modify the properties in the

POJO class and it checks, if there is any change in the properties of

persistent object(s), an appropriate query is generated and fired.


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7.1.1.3 Architecture Of Hibernate[3]

It involves the following components:-

Figure 7.3 Hibernate Architecture

This diagram shows Hibernate using the database and configuration data to provide

persistence services (and persistent objects) to the application.

The Hibernate interfaces may be approximately classified as follows:

Interfaces called by applications to perform basic CRUD and querying

operations: These interfaces are the main point of dependency of applicationbusiness/control logic on Hibernate. They include Session, Transaction, and

Query.

Interfaces called by application infrastructure code to configure Hibernate,

most importantly the Configuration class.

Callback interfaces that allow the application to react to events occurring

inside Hibernate, such as Interceptor, Lifecycle, and Validatable.

Interfaces that allow extension of Hibernates powerful mapping functionality,

such as UserType, CompositeUserType, and IdentifierGenerator.

These interfaces are implemented by application infrastructure code (if necessary).

JDBC provides a rudimentary level of abstraction of functionality common to

relational databases, allowing almost any database with a JDBC driver to be

supported by Hibernate.


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Chapter 7 Appendix

JNDI and JTA allow Hibernate to be integrated with J2EE application servers.

7.1.1.4 Interfaces[4]

The five core interfaces are used in just about every Hibernate application. Using

these interfaces, one can store and retrieve persistent objects and control

transactions.

Session interface

The Session interface is the primary interface used by Hibernate applications. An

instance of Session is lightweight and is inexpensive to create and destroy. This is

important because an application will need to create and destroy sessions all the

time, perhaps on every request. Hibernate sessions are not threadsafe and should

by design be used by only one thread at a time. It may be easier to think of a session

as a cache or collection of loaded objects relating to a single unit of work.

SessionFactory interface

The application obtains Session instances from a SessionFactory. The

SessionFactory is certainly not lightweight! Its intended to be shared among many

application threads. There is typically a single SessionFactory for the whole

applicationcreated during application initialization, The SessionFactory caches

generated SQL statements and other mapping metadata that Hibernate uses at

runtime. It also holds cached data that has been read in one unit of work and may be

reused in a future unit of work.

Configuration interface

The Configuration object is used to configure and bootstrap Hibernate. The

application uses a Configuration instance to specify the location of mapping

documents and Hibernate-specific properties and then create the SessionFactory.

Transaction interface

The Transaction interface is an optional API. Hibernate applications may choose not

to use this interface, instead managing transactions in their own infrastructure code.

A Transaction abstracts application code from the underlying transaction

implementationwhich might be a JDBC transaction, a JTA

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Chapter 7 Appendix

UserTransaction, or even a Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)

transaction allowing the application to control transaction boundaries via a

consistent API. This helps to keep Hibernate applications portable between different

kinds of execution environments and containers.

Query interface

The Query interface allows one to perform queries against the database and control

how the query is executed. Queries are written in HQL or in the native SQL dialect of

the database. A Query instance is used to bind query parameters, limit the number

of results returned by the query, and finally to execute the query.

7.1.1.5 Hibernate Over JDBC

Java is an object-oriented language. But, to query a database, JDBC is used

which is highly relational in nature i.e. to specify a query, it is essential to specify

the name of the table to be used (in a string) which essentially turns out to be a

relational approach. Hence, it violates the Object Oriented Concepts.

The tabular representation of data is very much different from the objects used in

object oriented applications. This is called Object/relational paradigm. Hence, to

follow the basic concepts of object oriented approach, ORM is used.

ORM stands for Object Relational Mapping, which is process of persisting

objects in a relational database. Hibernate works by persisting and restoring

plain old Java Objects (POJOs) using a very transparent and low-profile

programming model. This task of persisting Java objects to a relational database

involves serializing Java objects to a tabular-structured database and vice versa.

Essential to this effort is the need to map Java objects to database columns and

records in a manner optimized for speed and efficiency.


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