The project consists in the creation of a distributed Java application that is composed of a graphical interface built with JavaFX and by a service through which the application data is managed. Application data is stored in a mySQL DBMS database.

• CookingWiki: share and find kitchen recipes - Application backend/frontend development
  • Documentation
  • Project structure
  • How to run the application
  • Final evaluation and comments

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This project was developed during "Advanced Programming" course for the Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Pisa, so inner workings and implementation details are described in italian.

The main documentation of the project is available here. Unfortunately, due to lack of time, the documentation is not so complete and detailed as it should be. However, it provides a presentation of the application from the point of view of the user, to be able to appreciate its main features.

If you want to check the assignment for the project, you can find them in the pdf file here.

The project is structured in the following way:

• CookingWikiClient/ client application folder;
• CookingWikiServer/ server application folder;
• docs/ folder containing the documentation of the project;
• zip/ folder containing the two projects in zip format;
• README.md the file you are reading right now :).

You can download the latest zip file released from here.

The release includes both client and server zip files: import them in your favourite IDE (such as Apache NetBeans IDE).

The application uses a DBMS MySQL database to store data, so you need to install it on your machine if you don't have it yet. You can find the installation guide here. The project database connection is configured as follows:

// Database connection parameters
String dbUrl = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/cookingWiki";

// Database credentials
String username = "root";
String password = "root";

The application will use a database called cookingWiki and will try to connect to it using the default port 3306 with the user root and the password root. If you want to change these parameters, you can do it in the code.

Finally, you can run the two projects: the server first, then the client.

The project was evaluated with a score of 30/30 with honours.

The professor specially appreciated the quality of the code and the large number of features implemented in the application. He also appreciated the creativity and the effort put into the project.

The only negative notes were the lack of documentation and the file organization, because the source files are contained in the same directory and so it's not easy to manage them.