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Jam Cars is a small used car dealer who is desperately in need of a Java desktop

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Question

Jam Cars is a small used car dealer who is desperately in need of a Java desktop application to manage its car sales and inventory. This company has an excellent reputation for after sales support and as such this must factored in the automated system. As a result the owner has contracted you and your partner to develop a Multi Document Interface (MDI) application
Mark scheme
Abstraction
Polymorphism
Interface
Inheritance
Exception handling
Generics
Serialization
Collections
Swing GUI Frames
Database driven/ ORM- CRUD

Explanation / Answer

Business Car Ltd. (a part of Toyota Group) is the largest dealership in Russia selling Toyota and Lexus cars, with 1,500 employees and an annual revenue of $1.1 billion. The company also sells and maintains Toyota industrial machinery, Yamaha motorcycles, accessories and equipment for body repair, and provides car leasing and rent services.

For several years Business Car Ltd. used the TOCIS ERP system to automate the work of its commercial departments, which was developed and supported in-house. However, with time a number of the system’s drawbacks were revealed, such as the high cost of support and implementation in new dealership centers, poor adaptation to changing business processes, high licensing fees for the Oracle tools used in the system, and others.

Besides technical changes, Business Car Ltd. also planned to reengineer their business processes according to Toyota’s requirements. In doing so, they also hoped to optimize work with employees, vendors and customers, and to increase revenues.

In view of this, the company’s top management decided to develop a second version of the ERP system (TOCIS II), which would help in achieving the following goals: