Development and implementation of RecipeKiosk system; Commercial application using open-source and free components

Abstract

This report contains description of the design and developemnt process of the RecipeKiosk software system and the choice of software components used for the system realization. The development of the system was initiated by request of JuzySystems AB. The developed system is an interactive kiosk implemented using web-based client-server architecture and consists of hardware and software components. The first part of the report is dedicated to the description of software analysis and design and explains requirements specification, use-cases, system architecture and user interface prototype. For the implementation of system were used only free and open-source software components and the second part of this report describes the choice of components used. Among these components are Google Web Toolkit (GWT), Java Enterprise platform (JEE 5), GlassFish application server, PostgreSQL database management system and two distributives of Linux operating system – Puppy Linux and Ubuntu Server Edition