This project was made as a part of 4th semester assignment.
Any professional or official work requires a personal agenda which describes our identity,skills ,capability and field which we are professional at. Hence we came up with the idea of creating a Resume which is a short summary of your work experience, skills, achievements and goals. Hence this project is based on developing an application which takes in and stores the user information that includes all the necessary points required for a Resume and displays the end summary in the form of a Professionally designed CV.
- The main objective of Online Resume Builder is to manage the details of Resume, Job, Individual, Skills and Qualifications.
- The purpose of the project is to build an application program using Java Swing to reduce the manual work of managing the Resume.
- It tracks all the details about the Individual, Qualifications, Work Experience, Skills, and additional information and provides editing access to the user on the previous save.
- It provides the flexibility of generating the required document on screen and downloading it.
- This application opens into a frame which introduces login and sign up options to the user. In the login page the provided inputs are cross-checked with the existing database record.
- A new panel for registration requires the users to fill in the correct details. Users cannot leave any fields blank. A message dialog is provided to the users to make sure their username does not match with the existing record.
- Password confirmation is also provided for the users.User name and email Id validation is also maintained. After successfully logging in or registering, the frame is disposed to accommodate the new frame.
- Once the user is logged in, a frame appears with multiple panels providing users with the option to fill in their profile, education, skills/work experience and hobbies details on click.
- There is also a summary panel which on click summarizes the resume in a new frame. For a new registration, the user has no access to the summary panel.
- Once the user clicks on any of these panels, a frame is opened for entering relevant details.
- This particular frame asks the user to fill in their personal information as it is the main context of the Resume. Input fields are already filled in with previously saved information.
- For a newly registered user the name and email is already filled in. The user should make
sure to fill in the right information and also follow certain conditions.
- For example, the dob must be written in yyyy-mm-dd format and not leave the compulsory fields(*) empty.
- This frame asks the user to fill in the educational qualification details i.e Institution
name,year of passing and performance.
- Inputs are already filled in from the previous save and all compulsory fields need to be filled in.
- This frame asks the user to fill in job experience, skills, courses, internships, portfolio/work
examples and achievements.
- Inputs are already filled in from the previous save.
- Resume also considers one's interest and hobbies which is included under this frame.
- Additional details can also be provided by the user.
- Inputs are already filled in from the previous save.
- The user needs to add a declaration and accept it to do the final submission, which leads to the Summarize frame.
- This frame generates a panel to summarize all the information provided in a professional and an aesthetic resume format.
- A toggle button is made available if the user desires to change the theme.
- Users also have the ability to download the final resume in the provided file format in any desired location in their system.
- Through the application, the user defined dbms class provides an interface between the user and the database.
- Only through this class can we make connections with the database and store or retrieve the data.
- The username taken during registration acts as a primary key and connects all the foreign keys from other tables.
- Database connectivity is made available only when required.
- When we access any of the panels from the home page, that panel will be provided with a navigation bar at the side so that the user can easily access other panels at any time at their convenience.
- Also each panel has a save button to save the user's information in the record.
- A user defined abstract class is made use of, which is inherited by the IntroPage to declare the frames and panels used in each class.
- It also maintains the navigation bar, methods to resize the icons for panels/navigation panels and also an initializer method that invokes the constructor of every class and sets their panel visibility to false.
- Users are provided with keyboard shortcuts to access help, logout or exit the application.
- Swing in Java is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) toolkit that includes the GUI components.
- Swing provides a rich set of widgets and packages to make sophisticated GUI components for Java applications.
- Swing is a part of Java Foundation Classes(JFC), which is an API for Java programs that provide GUI.
- The Java Swing library is built on top of the Java Abstract Widget Toolkit (AWT), an older, platform dependent GUI toolkit. The Java GUI programming components like button, textbox, etc. can be used from the library and do not have to create the components from scratch.
- We used Java extensions for Visual Studio Code and Java Development Kit to use the Java Swing library and code the application.
- A database management system (DBMS) refers to the technology for creating and managing databases.
- Basically DBMS is a software tool to organize (create, retrieve, update and manage) data in a database.
- The main aim of a DBMS is to supply a way to store up and retrieve database information that is both convenient and efficient.
- By data, we mean known facts that can be recorded and that have embedded meaning.
- Database systems are meant to handle large collections of information.
- Management of data involves both defining structures for storage of information and providing mechanisms that can do the manipulation of those stored information.
- Moreover, the database system must ensure the safety of the information stored, despite system crashes or attempts at unauthorized access.
- We used the MySQL extension for Visual Studio code to create and manage tables and phpMyAdmin tool to handle the administration of MySQL over the web.
- We also connected our program with a remote server for online access to the database.
- We used freemysqlhosting for maintaining our data in remote database
