Interactive publication platform

1. Interactive Publication Platform
Group ID : - 2
Group Members :-
1.Ratan Kadam-4679
2.Nachiket Talwalkar-4582
3.Aditya Deshpande-4618
4.Sagar Kharat-4678
Guided By :-
* Prof. Jayadevan R.
* Prof. Warhade S.
Project Sponsorship:- In House
External Guide:- Mr. Prakash Khot(Salesforce Inc. USA)

2. Presentation Flow
Introduction
High Level Architecture
Implementation Details
Future Scope
References

3. Introduction
Problem Definition :
A mobile web application developed for
Apple’s new device- ipad called “Interactive
Publication Platform” which provides
interactive environment for book reading by
incorporating best of recent web technologies.

4. Front End –
Programming Languages –
Objective C :It is a superset of C
which includes object oriented
features and Cocoa framework.

5. Back End:-
Programming Languages:-The backend part is
entirely developed in java. The application is
residing on GAE.

6. S/w & H/w Requirements
Software Requirements:
• Xcode IDE, Interface Builder, Eclipse IDE , GAE
Simulator, Datastore.
Hardware Requirements:
• Ipad , Mac Mini, GAE server.

7. Modules
Back End Modules:
• XML parser(in java):Grabbing the link out of
RSS feeds subscribed by user.
• HTML parser(in java):Performs Extraction and
Transformation of the content in HTML page.
• Magazine Scheduler: It schedules the threads
of magazine creation and updation .
• Page Writer : Writing to the templates of the
magazine in XML form.

8. GAE
Front End
Configuration
File
Request
Handler
Application
Server
Static File Server
HTTP
Request
HTTP
Response
. . .
.
SERVER SIDE HIGH LEVEL
ARCHITECTURE
XML Documents
Magazine Page
URL
Path

9. Application
Code
Xml Parser
HTML Parser
Application
Server
Website
Supporting
RSS Feeds
Internet Cloud
RSS
Feed
URL
Fetch
Original HTML
Document
Text ,Images
& Videos
Content Descriptor(XML
File)
Page Writer
Magazine
Scheduler
Initiates
To Static File Server

10. Google App
Engine
User Interface
UI Controller
Model
XML Data
Connection with
GAE
XML Parsing
Data & Memory
Management
Linking UI & Model
Displaying
Formatted Data

11. Front End Modules:
• XML parser(Objective C): Reading the display
Descriptor and Content Descriptor.
• UI Controller: Writing the controller to link the
data and the view.
• Designing the UI: Managing the look and feel
of the magazine.
• Social Integration: Integrating Facebook and
Twitter.

12. Future Scope
• The future scope of this project is to make the
application platform independent so that it
can be viewed on any tablets like google slate,
hp slate etc.

13. References
• Chia-Chi Peng, Richard Helps “Mobile Application Development Essential
New Directions for IT” 7th
International Conference on Information
Technology.
• Emitrios Katasaros, Panayiotis Bozanis” Application Development: Fly To
clouds or stay in House?” Workshops on enabling technologies
infrastructure for collaborative enterprises 2010.
• Sohansingh Yadav,Zeng Wen Hua”Cloud: A computing infrastructure on
Demand” 2nd
International Conference on Computer Engineering
Technology 2010.
• Ben Fufie” Is iPad A Game Changer?” Apple Press Inc
• Micah Strickel”Impact of lecturing with tablet PCs on students of different
learning styles.” 39th
Aste/IEEE frontiers in education Conference Oct 18-
21 2009,San Antonio TX.

14. <?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE Magazine [
<!ELEMENT
Magazine(IndexPage,Page+)>
<!ELEMENT IndexPage(Article+)>
<!ELEMENT
Article(ArticleTitle,ArticleDescription,ArticleI
mage,ArticleNumber,ArticlePageNumber)>
<!ELEMENT ArticleTitle(#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT
ArticleDescription(#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT ArticleImage(#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT ArticleNumber(#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT
ArticlePageNumber(#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT
Page(PageTitle,PageImage*,PageAV*,Pag
eTaxt)>
]>
Content Descriptor File

15. <?XML version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE MagazineDescriptor[
<!ELEMENT
MagazineDescriptor(UTimeCoverPage,Re
arPage,RSS+,PublisherName,Description)
>
<!ELEMENT RSS(#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT Title(#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT Description(#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT CoverPage(#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT RearPage(#PCDATA)>
]>
Magazine Descriptor File