Project 1 -Airline Ticketing Kiosk App: Gautier Airlines

Description: Gautier Airlines is a flight booking service that allows users to book a flight to their dream destination. Book with us and we will fly you straight to your destination city with no pesky multi-stop flights! Not only that, you will be supporting your local airports, reducing your impact on the environment!

Minimum Requirements:

• Proper use of OOP principles
• Output is presented to user on a web page, and input is accepted from a web form
• CRUD operations are supported for one or more domain objects via the web application's API endpoints and invoked from the frontend
• Communication is done with JSON in HTTP request and response bodies.
• Abstract all JDBC away with Hibernate
• Documentation (all classes and methods have adequate Javadoc comments)
• All Exceptions are caught and logged to a file

Bonus Features:

• Webapp(backend) and UI(frontend) are served from AWS and are publically available
• DevOps CI/CD pipeline to build and deploy project
• 80%+ Unit test line coverage for service-layer methods(Test as much as possible, ask trainer if unsure)
• Advanced UI Framework (Angular or React)

User Stories:

• As a user, I can see all available flights from a city to a city.
• As a user, I can purchase one or more tickets on a flight.
• As a user, I can check in for my flight.
• As a user, I can cancel my ticket.
• As an administrator, I can schedule a new flight.
• As an administrator, I can cancel a flight.
• As an administrator, I can view a flight manifest (flight details + passenger list)

Bonus Stories:

• As an administrator, I can cancel a ticket on any flight.
• As an pilot, I can initiate takeoff of a flight. (No more new tickets or cancellations)

Tech Stack:

We employed the following technologies in our project.

• Java 8
• JavaScript
• HTML & CSS
• Apache Maven for dependencies and project management
• Git & Github for version control
• MariaDB deployed on AWS RDS for data persistence
• Hibernate to abstract away JDBC code
• AWS EC2, ElasticBeanstalk, S3, CodeBuild, CodePipeline