Research

Before embarking on this project I researched the cloud storage market from the perceptive of a developer rather than a user.

Research findings

Technology Requirements

From the offset this project was always going to be a Java EE project but this says little about the technologies that I should use, Java EE is such an all encompassing title.

I review here the technology that I used and below is a list:

• Java 7 and related APIs
• Cloud storage APIs
• Hiberante
• JSP with EL and some custom tag libs
• HTML 5 and jQuery
• Tomcat 7 on Amazon Web Services
• mySQL

Methodology

As this project is small it was not necessary to implement a complete agile life-cycle so I cherry picked the features that were most pertinent:

• Design Patterns
  • MVC
  • Front Controller
  • Strategy Pattern
  • Factory
  • Façade
• Behavioural-driven design
  • SMART user-stories
• Unit tests