Rental Car Point Of Sale System:

In this project, you will fill the role of chief (and sole) developer of the new
point of sale system for Hurtz Rental Cars, Inc.   Hurtz's business to provide
short-term rental cars to customers.

Most people don't want just *any* car, they have an idea of what they would like
to drive.  Perhaps they need a sedan (4 doors), or are driving along the coast 
and would like a convertible.   Perhaps they have a specific car they would like
to rent because they are thinking of purchasing one, and would like an extended
test drive.  In this case, they might know the make, model, and number of doors
on the vehicle they need.

Other people may only care about price.  They want the cheapest sedan or the
least expensive convertible.

The course project for this class is to build a client-server system to allow 
rental car clerks at Hurtz to locate available cars in their fleet for potential
customers.  This system will include a client application with a graphical user 
interface (the HurtzAgentTerminal) that the rental agent will use to query and 
reserve cars, and a console (command line) server application for performing 
the searches and managing the inventory data.   There will also be a console 
(command line) "database" utility program for creating the inventory data file.

I will provide you a jar file (hurtzcommon) that contains class definitions (including source
if you wish to view the source) for common classes/interfaces in this system:  

Car
CarImpl
Criteria
CriteriaImpl
CriteriaValidationException
InvalidModelException
InvalidMakeException
AbstractHurtzSearchEngine
HurtzDataUtility

Your source code will be organized into packages.  The client (presentation)
code will reside in edu.cod.cis218.client   The server (data/search) code will
reside in edu.cod.cis218.server  Almost all of the classes I provide you will 
reside in edu.cod.cis218.common (AbstractHurtzSearchEngine is in edu.cod.cis218.server);

In addition to functional, documented source code, the student will be 
responsible for writing a brief, high-level design document that describes the 
system, and for generating html documentation of his/her code using the Javadoc 
tool.

There will be a series of small programming tasks assigned during the session, 
which will provide the basis for the course project.  Details about the minimum work required, 
the grading breakdown, and the grading environment are available in ProjectDeliverables.txt