CT024-3-3

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER
SYSTEMS
(DCOMS)
ASSIGNMENT
JACON ONLINE FOOD DELIVERY SYSTEM

Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU)

DCOMS Assignment CT024-3-3-DCOMS Level 3

Contents

1 INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT........................................................................ 2
2 LEARNING OUTCOME............................................................................... 2
3 ASSESSMENT AND DELIVERABLES:........................................................... 3
3.1 ASSIGNMENT GRADE BREAKDOWN..................................................................3
3.2 GRADE MARK...........................................................................................4
PERFORMANCE CRITERIA:....................................................................................................... 4
3.2.1 DISTINCTION (75% AND ABOVE).................................................................................... 4
3.2.2 CREDIT (65 74%)................................................................................................... 4
3.2.3 PASS (50 64%)...................................................................................................... 4
3.2.4 MARGINAL FAIL (40 49%)......................................................................................... 4
3.2.5 FAIL (0 - 39%).......................................................................................................... 5
4 ASSIGNMENT REQUIREMENTS.................................................................. 6
5 BACKGROUND......................................................................................... 7
6 WHAT ARE THE SOFTWARE FUNCTIONALITIES.......................................... 7
7 TASKS SHOULD FOLLOW ......................................................................... 8

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ASIA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND

INNOVATION

1 Individual Assignment
Assignment Title : JACON Food Delivery System (100%)
Computer Language : Java
Date Assigned : Week 2
Date Due : Week 15
Submission : Softcopy & Hardcopy
Lecturer : Mr. Umapathy
Email ID : umapathy.eaganathan@apu.edu.my
Date Due : Week 15
Presentation week : Week 16
Presentation duration : 30 minutes per student
Best Resource : http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/

2 Learning Outcome
1 Assess various distributed technology in the context of distributed enterprise
applications.
2 Discuss projected future developments in distributed systems technology and standards.
3 Utilise appropriate language and system facilities to develop distributed and fault-
tolerant applications.

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3 Assessment and Deliverables:

3.1 Assignment grade Breakdown
Following is the grading criteria for the required report:

Area Mark Marks Obtained

Demonstration (50%)

Programme correctness
o Functionalities 10%
o Program structure 5%
o Protocols 5%
o Transaction management 5%
o Execution 10%
o Additional features 5%
o Viva-voce 10%

Documentation (50%)

Report
o Over all document 10%
o Readability of program (Comments,
naming, files & folders ) 10%
o Testing 5%
o DCOMS technologies (any 3) 5%
o Virtualization & Cloud computing 5%
o Program User guide 5%
o Explanation of ICE and alternatives 5%
o Referencing 5%

Total

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Note: Produce the hardcopy of the above report and enclose a softcopy of the report together with
the program source code in a secondary storage media.

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3.2 Grade Mark

Performance Criteria:
The following guidelines indicate the standard that will be expected for each grade.

3.2.1 Distinction (75% and above)

Demonstrates an excellent understanding of the DCOMS concept, the application must work with the
good implementation of RMI, Socket, Serialization and managing of transaction in the proper way.
The code should be implemented to a high standard of functionality, with appropriate test plan and
result of the test.

Documentation will be of a high standard. The elaboration of Virtualization, cloud and grid
computing usage in DCOMS and the benefit of ICE technology for DCOMS must be in the
documentation. The comparison of new technologies in DCOMS with application limitation clearly
discussed and future enhancement of the application in real word will be a part of documentation.

Referencing and comments in the source code are very clear and followed the standard; readability
of source code follows the W3 standard. The presentation and application demonstration is good and
answers provided for any questions are completed.

3.2.2 Credit (65 74%)

Demonstrates a good understanding of the DCOMS concepts and technology, the presentation and
documentation explains the core of the requirements with accepted level of development, main
protocols are implemented and transaction management is addressed in the code, minimum test case
and result is implemented.

Document referencing and code comment is complete and the code is following standard to achieve
readability. The document has minimum discussion of Virtualization, cloud and grid computing
usage in DCOMS and the benefit of ICE technology for the assignment.

3.2.3 Pass (50 64%)

Demonstrate some understanding of the DCOMS concepts and technologies. The code can be run
with minimum defect and error. There is enough explanation for each part of the developed and used
technologies. Documentation is adequate. The student will be able to discuss his/her implementation
during the presentation and will be able to explain the way in which he/she has attempted the project.

3.2.4 Marginal Fail (40 49%)

Demonstrate poor understanding of the problem. Presentation and explanations is limited but
sufficient to demonstrate that the student understands the work that has been submitted. The

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implementation will not cover major requested protocols and the application is not able to run in a
proper manner.

Documentation is limited or not to an acceptable standard. There is no test case and result of test.
The inappropriate referencing and poor source code comment.

3.2.5 Fail (0 - 39%)

Demonstrate poor understanding of the DCOMS concepts, documentation incomplete and poor
explanation during demonstration. The implementation of protocols or technologies are weak or
incomplete, the application has very minimum functionality and unable to run properly.
Referencing / code comments are very poor or do not have proper referencing / comments. The
communication between components and server is not properly designed and is unable to
communicate to the server.

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4 Assignment Requirements

1. You are required to work individually.

2. The report has to be well presented and should be typed. Submission of reports that are
unprofessional in its outlook (dirty, disorganised, inconsistent, varying coloured paper and
size) will not fare well when marks are allocated.

3. Ensure that the report is printed on a standard A4 (210 X 297 mm) sized paper. Paper weight
of 80 grams and above is highly recommended. 1 inch 1 inch

4. The report should have a one (1) margin all around the page as

1 inch

1 inch
illustrated here:
The Typed Text

1 inch

1 inch
1 inch 1 inch

5. Every report must have a front cover. A transparent plastic sheet can be placed in front of the
report to protect the front cover. The front cover should have the following details:

a) Student name.

b) Intake code.

c) Subject.

d) Project Title.

e) Date Assigned (the date the report was handed out).

f) Date Completed (the date the report is due to be handed in).

6. Plagiarism is a serious offence and will automatically be awarded zero (0) marks.

7. All information, figures and diagrams obtained from external sources must be referenced
using the Harvard referencing system accordingly.

*IMPORTANT NOTES*

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1- You have to hand in your hardcopy assignment on time with the Course Work Submission and
Feedback Form.

2- Please be informed that presentation is compulsory and if any student refusing to attend the
presentation, the grade will be considered as fail.

5 Background
JACON is one of the most famous online food delivery system in Malaysia. This food system
provides services to the customers by supplying foods in quicker and easier with cheapest rate.
JACON has numerous branches all over the Malaysia. The speciality of JACON covers northern,
southern and western styles of food.

6. What are the software functionalities?

You are required to design & implement an online food delivery system for JACON using Java RMI
technology. This involves writing both the server and the client program(s). Client programs can use
either a command line interface or a graphical user interface. The system should allow the user to
register an account with his username and password. If the username exists in the system, the system
should notify the user to enter a different username. After the user has registered to the online food
delivery system, the user should be able to request a list of available food menu from the online food
delivery system. The system should return a list of available food menu to the user. You may use
Hash Table or any other Java collection or external database of your choice. Based on the list of food
menu given, the user should be able to purchase food from the list. Implement secure communication
between the user and the online food delivery system. Also implement what happens if multiple users
use the online food system at the same time?

7. Tasks should follow

The application should allow the users to register and each successfully registered user will have to
receive an acknowledgement using email. This is to be done using Socket Programming. Also, the
system should be able to generate a report of the ordered list by using RMI.

Each individual student must attend to the whole application, and develop both client and server side
application. You need to make sure the proper technology features are addressed during the process
of programming. The communication between client and server must use RMI with Serialization
and support Multiple Threads and Socket programming. The whole transaction process should
follow the Transaction Management methods. Please remember you are allowed to use SQLite or
File System to store your data in server using JDBC connection.

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