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Objective:
A national news paper agency wants to automate its customer facing services online (besides hard-copy version) and also want to facilitate a collaborative environment to geographically dispersed teams to make them more innovative and ahead of time.
Functional Requirements:
• General public can subscribe for a free daily news paper and paid SMS based news services on desired section like business, sports etc.
• General public and News reporters can also submit news, all kind of advertisements requests includes tenders, birthdays, marriage invite etc.
• Registered General public can also inform a crime, with sting operation video/audio, proof attachments that in-turn immediately sends a SMS to field reporter to cover that matter.
• Facilitate communication between reporters, experts and general public through - Discussion forum/chat/mail/polls
• Script verifier’s needs to proof read all send articles and finalize them for printing after getting approval from main editor(s).
• News reporters are getting many rewards as per there performance on field and breaking news collection, that we need to evaluate and recognize in a separate section of site.
• Administrators can grant and revoke various authorities to/from users. He also wants to view the activities of user(s) through logs.
Non-Functional Requirements
• Secure access of confidential data (user’s details). SSL can be used.
• 24 X 7 availability
• Better component design to get better performance at peak time
• Flexible service based architecture will be highly desirable for future extension
• Use of Graphical tool like JASPER to show strategic data to admin
Modules
After looking at the functional requirements it is identified that we can divide the system into three modules such as:
• Users Module
• Administrators Module
Users of the System
This system should be designed to support the following users:
• General public
• News reporters
• Script verifiers
• Administrators (Editors)
Software and Hardware Requirements:
Software Requirements:
Operating System : Windows XP/2003 or Linux
User Interface : HTML, CSS
Client-side Scripting : JavaScript
Programming Language : Java
Web Applications : JDBC, Servlets, JSP
Database : Oracle 10g
Server Deployment : Tomcat 5.x
Hardware Requirements:
Processor : Pentium IV
Hard Disk : 40GB
RAM : 512MB or more