family_tree

Authors :

Created by:

• Marco De Toma - Github
• Alessio Di Giacomo - Github
• Gianluca Filippone - Github

What is :

The goal of family_tree project is to build a complete working website about a social-oriented genealogical tree.

This website, called Collaborative Genealogy, represents a social way to build up your own genealogical tree, contributing at the same time to grow your relatives' one.

Everyone can signup inserting their personal information.

Signed users can add a piece of their genealogical tree, i.e.

• Parents
• Siblings
• Child
• Spouse

...or search if there is a relative which is already a member using a common searchbar and sending him a request to join to his genealogical tree.

When an user sends a request to relative attachment to his genealogical tree, that invite has to be accepted by the other user.

If a relative can't sign up to the website, it is possible to create a basic non-verified profile and add it to a genealogical tree.

Once you built your tree, you can navigate through it and reach each of your relatives that joined to Collaborative Genealogy.

Every user can edit his information from a private dashboard. From here user can edit his information, add a biography or upload an avatar.

An unregistered user can however search for registered users from the main page.

How it's done :

The entire system is built around few components:

• Internal logic realized with Java Servlet and Java Library
• SQL Database hosted by Apache MySQL
• Template generation using Freemarker
• Valid HTML5
• Heavy presence of CSS3 for the graphical user interface, that ensure a completely responsive design
• Javascript to enhance the user experience, but also available without this tecnology
• Bootstrap, Normalize and FontAwesome CSS library, and jQuery javascript library

Project developed using NetBeans IDE 8 and Apache Tomcat

Deploy instructions :

'family_tree' requires an active MySQL server running on the machine. A working dump of the database 'collaborative_genealogy' is provided into the project folder.

Then anyone can simply try the website opening the project with Net Beans IDE and run it having Tomcat Module installed.

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License :

Copyright 2015 retained by authors of the project.