ABSTRACT
The project entitled GROUP COMMUNICATION is developed in the corporate environment and aims to pass communication between groups in the form of text and audio.
In todaysâ„¢ world where the IT plays its role, the business concerns aims at efficient way of communication. The manual communication has always been involved with many problems and errors where the real-time data cannot be passed to the individuals who are separated with means of distances.
The project aims at making this problem vanish by providing the correct source of passing instant messages to the individuals situated in a LAN based environment.
The project also aims at sending mails from one node to another node situated in a LAN based environment. It too aims at storing the messages permanently in a database unitl the user deletes it. The user can check and compose the mails well at any time. The project provides the group conference ability to make individuals to form groups and to have group communication. The project too provides the file transfer ability from one node to another node without any restriction of size The project well too aims at having voice chat where the current technology have updated it with the sound pattern.
Thus the project had mingled in itself the well designed integeration of communication, video facilities and File Transfer.


1.1 INTRODUCTION
The project entitled GROUP COMMUNICATION is being developed using Java-Swings with Ms-Access.

Front-End : JAVA-SWINGS
Back-End : MS-Access

The project GROUP COMMUNICATION provides the means and source of communicating with the users situated in a LAN based environment.
It too provides the features of changing the password, logginout at any time, checking and composing the mail, send instant messages and have group conferences and have voice chat with the other people and able to send files from any node to any without restriction of file size.

1.2 OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT
The project provides the ability to pass instant messages between users available in LAN and to have group communication with the formed groups and to transfer the files of any size and to have voice chat.
The project helps to do the following things
1. Sending Instant Messages.
2. Option to change the password.
3. Checking and Composing Mail.
4. Having Group Communication
5. Having the ability to transfer the files of any size


STUDY ON EXISTING SYSTEM
The existing is full of manual one where one individual has to communicate with the other manually. Pass the files manually, have to chat with one another physically etc. In an IT world the things must go faster for that efficient means of communication is required.
Drawbacks of the Existing System

1. Have to communicate manually.
2. Have to transfer the files physically.
3. Have to record the information manually.
4. Have to go to another person manually to contact.
5. The above things cause problem when it is a peak time.

To cope with the above limitations, a new efficient computerized based system is proposed and is the GROUP COMMUNICATION



HARDWARE SPECIFICATION
The project entitled ËœGROUP COMMUNICATIONâ„¢ has been developed using JAVA SWINGS as front-end and MS-ACCESS as back-end.
Processor : Pentium IV
Memory : 256 MB RAM
Hard Disk : 40 GB
Monitor : Samtron 17 color monitor
Mouse : Logitech
Keyboard : Ergonomics keyboard with 104 keys
2.2.3 SOFTWARE SPECIFICATION
Front-End : Java Swings
Back-End : Ms-Access
Editor Tool : Microsoft Notepad
Operating System : Platform Independent