Discussion on project-topic

We all showed our interest to do a web project in a team as today 'web development in Java' (J2EE technology) is a buzzword.

Tushar sir asked all of us to think on some project that we can take up provided the project should have some unique feature to offer.

We suggested two projects:

1. To create library that wraps Struts framework in order to assist developers minimize web project life-time.
2. To create Internet Banking Solution using Struts.

But, these concepts are already taken by other communities.

During research for project topic on Internet I came across one website http://www.java.net . On this site you may find several open-source projects based on Java and the best part is you can join or submit your project there. This website is powered by Sun Microsystems, Inc. , Oreilly and Collabnet.

Next day, we started our discussion on project topic.

Sir first explained what type of projects are there that we should not go for and why. Projects such as:
Online Forums, Issue Tracker, Messaging Service, Wiki, Search Engine (because, Search Engines are non-web projects. Storage, Tuning etc is the main focus.), Online Document Sharing Sites (such as http://docs.google.com), Link Sharing Sites (such as http://del.icio.us), Confluence (Confluence comprises of forum, issue tracker, messaging service, wiki.)

After this, he introduced the concept of creating a website for book-lovers. The unquieness of this website lies in making it available in context of rich Indian literature. Book lovers will be able to find books such as "Chhava", "Shriman Yogi", "Rau", "Adamya Sahas - by A.P. J. Kalam", "Kargil", "Agnipath" etc.
Members of this site will be able to share their reading experiences by posting reviews on books. This is a great news for Indian readers. Isn't it ??

And we all excitedly agreed upon and thus we have finalized to work on mydearbooks.com, the website.

cheers..,
Kalyani Alshi, Nagpur.