Senior Project - BuffExchange

The Anderson Group, a venture capital company from Michigan committed to funding an online student exchange web site to be developed by a senior project team. BuffExchange is a web-based campus-wide student exchange resource developed for the Anderson Group. It provides important services to students that are not currently available as a package through the Internet. Students are able to access these services from anywhere that a web browser is available. The site is organized so that other schools that wish to use the service will be seamlessly integrated through web-based administrative utilities. Some of the services that BuffExchange provides are classifieds, campus news, used textbook exchange, and a Java based chat system.

BuffExchange was developed using a combination of Java, PHP, MySQL, and HTML. The resulting web page allows users to access all of the functionality of BuffExchange from any web browser. The administrator function is built into the web page and is accessed with the administrator password.