A Java Application

8.1 What are the software functionalities? 8.1.1 Candidate Registration task In this part, your application is responsible for the candidate registration, which has the following steps: 8.1.1.1 Candidate validation You need to ask for the Student ID of the nominees and check if he or she has tried to register before. (The process of validation is via the web service method provided by CTI) 8.1.1.2 Upload process of ID The scan picture of student ID should be uploaded to the server using the FTP method. 8.1.1.3 Select the position The application should show the available position to the candidates and each candidate might select 3 different positions that are available. 8.1.1.4 Upload the selection The nominees will upload his / her selection using RMI method with serialization. 8.1.1.5 Get the conformation The candidate will get the result in his/her email via SMTP email and the system will alert the result using the socket programming method. 8.1.1.6 Finalized the registration The confirmation alert is submitted to the nominees. The registration will be finalised by the system. 8.1.2 Election task The system is responsible to manage the process of the election during the election period. This process has several tasks noted as follows: 8.1.2.1 Student registration and validation The student will come to the counter and login to the system using his/her student account. The process of validation is via the web service method provided by CTI. 8.1.2.2 Election process The student will select a position where they will see the list of candidates and then will select one for each position. 8.1.2.3 Upload the vote After the voter submit his/her vote, the application will upload the result to the server and will save the votes to a file (each separate position to separate file using serialization methods). 8.1.2.4 Preparing the result Once the election period has passed, the server must report the result as a file and send to all voters and candidates via email. 8.1.2.5 Finalize the election The head of student service will stop the election process and all votes (serialization files) will be deleted from the server but the result will be saved to the database.