GUI for a Rule Based Clean Up Engine In Coordination with Amdocs Israel

GUI for a Rule Based Clean Up EngineIn Coordination with Amdocs Israel Students: Avner Barr, Eitan Vadergorn Supervisor: RamiMankevich Lecturer in Charge: ChaimGotsman

Team Members • Avner Barr (CS Technion) • Eitan Vaidergorn (CS Technion) • RamiMankevich (Amdocs Israel) • ChaimGotsman (Technion CS Professor)

Goal • 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

Goal • 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

Project Goals 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.

Methodology • 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

Methodology Continued • 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 RBCE Eclipse Amdocs Classes Rule Groups Global Parameters LOGIC Database config User Interface Screens

Achievements • 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/NetbeansIDE 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

Conlusions • 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

Examples • Demo • Mini Website

Questions?

GUI for a Rule Based Clean Up Engine In Coordination with Amdocs Israel