Project Partner: Jayavardhini Kathika
I. Brief Description: VforU is a Desktop application which matches ‘requester’ to ‘volunteer’ for short-term healthcare assistance. When deployed in a real time environment, people can use this application by signing up as 1)Requester or, 2)Volunteer. In the current pandemic scenario, a lot of people are falling sick and may need 1)immediate medical assistance, 2)essential groceries, or 3)medicines. This is causing a heavy surge on healthcare infrastructure like ambulance and online delivery services. Therefore, we came across this idea to design an application which can provide three types of healthcare-related services – 1)Medical Assistance, 2)pharmacy, 3)groceries. Medical Assistance covers services like picking the sick person, staying with them until diagnosis, dropping them back home (if required), etc. Pharmacy service includes picking medicines on the behalf of the requester. Grocery service can provide door-step delivery of groceries. Once the type of service is requested, the application will notify volunteers in the same city about the request. When a volunteer selects a request then the application provides contact details of the volunteer to the requester and vice versa. The requester can then text/call the volunteer to explain the service requested in more detail
II. Requirements: To run the application you should have following setup ready:
- Java JDK installed
- Docker installed
- Run and establish connection with Oracle Database (oracle-xe-11g)
III. Assumptions:
- It is assumed that Application will be run on Java supported platforms.
- For the current version of application it is assumed that Volunteers and Requesters will not misuse the Application. They will use it for the purpose it is designed for.
IV. Design Pattern Used:
- Creational Patterns:Factory Method, Singleton, Builder
- Structural Patterns: Composite, Facade, Decorator
- Behavioral Patterns: Mediator, Iterator, NullObject, Strategy, Observer
V. Limitations :
- Our application is single threaded therefore, some part of the code like Singleton might not be suitable for a multithreaded environment
- We could not implement networking or RPC APIs to show our end users(different machines) getting alerts, but we tried to implement the functionality using Database queries