Comet

Cryptocurrency tracker web app

For the Cognizant-Platform by Per Scholas Java Developer class

For now, my goal is to create a prototype with dummy data but I aim to use the API when the data and website function together up to standard.

To run on a localhost: Install Spring 4 with the Spring 3 add-on into Eclipse EE. Place 'ojdbc7.jar' and 'json-simple-1.1.1.jar' into the '/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib' folder. Install TomCat, create a server and run.

Dummy Data: Bitcoin information collected from the API using the CryptoCollector/script.py file, and the python package made by lagerfeuer.

TODO / Production path:

1. Wireframe pages
2. Create database and schema
3. Implement DAO methods AND pages:
   • User coin registration/deletion
   • User Coin List display
   • Coin information display
   • Coin information register as user coin (if logged in)
   • Contact pages
   • User/Admin pages
   • Admin - account CRUD
   • Users - Modify data
4. Charts on Coin information display
5. (Ongoing) Source control on GitHub/Update user stories on Jira
6. Deployment

Technologies used:

• Java
• Spring MVC
• Maven
• HTML/CSS
• JSP
• Oracle SQL
• Python
• Jira
• JUnit

Free Services / Third Party software used

API:

https://www.cryptocompare.com/api

Bootstrap:

https://getbootstrap.com/

Python CryptoCompare Package

https://github.com/lagerfeuer/cryptocompare

Draw.io

https://www.draw.io/

Google Charts

https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/

Amazon Web Services

https://aws.amazon.com/ (Credit/Debit needed for a year of free service)

Postman (API development Environment)

https://www.getpostman.com/

Wireframe.cc (HTML Layout Development Tool)

https://wireframe.com

Things I would have done differently/Refactorable items:

• Database Access Objects: Refactor them into Models/BeanDAOs instead of CRUD-based DAOS
• Refine the implementation of MVC and have the Controllers simple, business logic done in the beans, and the views with less code.
• Table list/Graph in a more user friendly format
• Figure out why home page (coin list) takes so long to generate