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Scope

Holiday Planner is an office application which enables accessing of central database from the IPPhone rather than computer. It provides a convinient way of editing and monitoring of details regarding time off work.

Operation

Operational Overview:

• Holiday Planner application on the phone interacts with the server using XML. The server provides XML to the phone which the application renders into a screen for the user to interact with. The user’s interaction with the phone results in key-value pairs being passed back to the server for processing.
• Java Application connects to database using JDBC (Java Database Connectivity)
• Java Application then uses SQL to query /update the database on the server.
• In turn database returns the results in the form of result-set.
• Java Application processes this result-set and constructs an appropriate XML page for IPPhone.

Key Features

Holiday Planner has two different sets of users:

• Employees And Supervisors

• Make Requests

Users can make request for holiday / flexi-leave.

• View Request Status

Allows users to look at their past / future holiday / flexi-leave requests.

• Team Calendar

It provides graphical view of week by week holiday plans for users team.

• Extra Features For Supervisor

• View Employees Requests

Allows supervisor to approve / decline holiday / flexi-leave requests of employees with reasons / comments.

See also

• XML on optiPoint application module
• Additional Innovative XML Applications