Name: Francis Chan
Advisor: A. Richard Newton
Sponsor: DABT63-95-C-0074-NEWTON-06/96
Project Title: Web-Based Project Management Application
Chapter: Computer-Aided Design
Graphics: 1

The Internet and World Wide Web has evolved into more than just a communications medium for static publishing. With a broad user base and the maturity of Internet and networking technologies, it is emerging as the platform for wide-area collaboration. However, many challenges and obstacles factor in into the viability of such a platform. These include a rich set of applications, a secure transaction and data storage model, efficient communications protocols and supporting infrastructural applications. The development of WebProj, a Java-based project management application, contributes to a number of the afforementioned aspects.

High-level module interaction and organization.


WebProj helps manage the flow, collaboration and administration of projects, with an emphasis on electronic design, that are performed by people over the Internet. The main components of WebProj are a PERT chart editor to manage project workflow, a personnel tracking system with session control and a messaging system. In addition to the development of application functionality and intuitive graphical user interfaces, much effort has been put into the design and implementation of persistent object management of applications with Java front-ends and a remote data management back-end (object-oriented database).

Moreover, we are also in the process of re-implementing and improving the OCT system, using Java and the PersistentObject package that we are developing. We hope these experience will lead us to delivering an efficient and robust set of protocols and the infrastructure needed for the future development of Java-based (CAD) applications.

For more information on this research, please see
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~fchan/research.

Modified: October 2, 1996
Feedback: (fchan@eecs.berkeley.edu)