Students: Avner Barr, Eitan Vadergorn Supervisor: Rami Mankevich Lecturer in Charge: Chaim Gotsman

 Avner Barr (CS Technion)  Eitan Vaidergorn (CS Technion)  Rami Mankevich (Amdocs Israel)  Chaim Gotsman (Technion CS Professor)

 To create an Eclipse plug-in GUI for the RBCE  Design software through all stages  Work as a team with an external supervisor  Complete the project in one semester

 To create an Eclipse plug-in GUI to generate XML input for the Rule Based Clean Up Engine (RBCE)  Design software through all stages  Work as a team with an external supervisor  Complete the project in one semester

These are the original goals from our kickoff presentation:  Writing of various rules based on user specified requirements.  Supporting multiple databases e.g. one rule can be executed in one DB and another can run in a different DB.  GUI should support testing a rule or a group of rules following specification of the database details in the GUI.  The cleanup engine can run on more than one XML. The GUI should be loaded as per the XML specified.  All the rules specified in the GUI can be updated in the backend XML file.  The GUI should be able to read the rules manually written in the XML file.

 Tiered design and implementation ◦ Logic ◦ Data Base ◦ Front end  Loose coupling between UI and logic ◦ Easily add new rules to data base ◦ Easily adapt logic ◦ Easily configure new screens  “Divide and Conquer” ◦ Separate implementation to pieces ◦ Rely on external sources when available (Amdocs libs)  Support for easy extensibility

 Rule Based Clean up Engine Configuration Comprised of: ◦ Data base definition (According to schema)  Rule Groups  DB Rules  Parameters and various configurations  File Rules  Parameters and various configurations  Rule specific dynamic parameters  Dynamic Parameters

XML Amdocs Classes LOGIC User Interface Screens Rule Groups Database config Global Parameters Eclipse RBCE

 In the allotted time we were able to achieve quite a lot. Some of our achievements include ◦ Learn to create an Eclipse Plugin from scratch ◦ Learn to use the JAXB API ◦ Use Eclipse/Netbeans IDE to facilitate GUI and plugin creation ◦ Use and manipulate XML/XSD files with different tools and manually ◦ Java experience ◦ GUI for creating and manipulating XML files for the RBCE engine

 Working with Eclipse is not an easy task ◦ We would not have used its frame work if it wasn’t required  Delegating our time was difficult and we had problems synchronizing our work  We should have asked for more help using the Amdocs’ libraries because they were not correct throughout ◦ Time wasted ◦ Changing schemas  We were able to design, implement and test our software from the bottom up and we learned about Java and other tools such as Eclipse, Netbeans and Altova  Derived successes ◦ Produced a mini website ◦ Used many tools and software forums online

 Demo  Mini Website