The Library Management System (LibraryMS) is designed to simplify and streamline the management of books in a library. It allows users to search, borrow, and return books, while also providing features for administrators to track borrowed books and manage their inventory. The system aims to be a simple, intuitive solution for managing library operations and enhancing user experience.
- Search Books: Users can search for books by title, author, or ISBN.
- Borrow Books: Users can borrow books, with automatic tracking of borrowed books.
- Return Books: Users can return borrowed books, updating the library’s inventory.
- Admin Panel: Admins can manage book inventory, track borrowed books, and generate reports.
- Email and Phone Validation: Ensure that users' email addresses and phone numbers are valid using regular expressions.
- Logging: All actions performed in the system are logged to a file for auditing and debugging purposes. This includes actions like borrowing and returning books.
- Multi-threading: Multi-threading is used to list available books and write them to a file. This helps in improving the performance and efficiency of the operation.
- JPA and JDBC: The application demonstrates the use of both JPA and JDBC. JPA is used for managing entities, while JDBC is used for performing lower-level database operations. This allows for comparison and understanding of the differences between these two approaches.
- Basic Functionality: While the application provides basic book management and borrowing functionality, it lacks advanced features like book reservations or fine calculations for late returns.
- Database Handling: Although JDBC is used for certain operations, all database access could be unified under JPA for consistency in production-grade applications.
The Library Management System demonstrates how to handle both basic and advanced operations within a library system. By using JPA and JDBC together, it highlights the strengths and trade-offs of each approach. The addition of logging and multithreading enhances the usability and performance of the application.