java-car-rental-system

Project Structure

1. carrentalsystem

• This folder contains the main class that will be used to run the application.

2. Classes

• This folder contains all the classes we have such as Admin, Customer, and Booking.

3. DAO

• This folder contains all the Data Access Object classes.

4. Processes

• This folder contains all the process classes we have like LoginProcess.

5. UserInterface

• This folder contains all files related to our user interface. We will have 1 JFrame, and many JPanels.

6. Validators

• This folder contains all validators that will be used to validate users' input in order to make sure the input are inline with our Data Files' format.

• Some validators are general. An example is the DateTimeValidator. These validators can be used by other validators.

• Class-specific validators are validators that are to be used by their respective classes. For example, CarValidator will be used by the Car class. Inside CarValidator, there will be methods like validateCarCreationInput, validateCarEditInput, etc.

7. DataFiles

• We will ignore this folder in our GitHub repository.

How to Build

Install Apache Ant

• Check if Apache Ant is already installed by ant -version, if it is not installed, install it from here.

• Installation guide: https://mkyong.com/ant/how-to-install-apache-ant-on-windows/

Configure Environment Variable

Configure pathToDataFileDirectory in src/carrentalsystem/Environment.java based on your own local directory path.

Compile and Build

At the project root directory, run these commands to build the application

ant clean
ant prepare-libs
ant copy-resources
ant compile
ant dist

Run

Head to dist directory, and run the following command:

java -jar CarRentalSystem.jar