Application of Client Server Architecture for Automate Vehicle Allocation in Military Domain

Abstract

As a large scale organization in military domain Kotelawala Defence University (KDU) performs many services for the enhancement of tri forces in Sri Lanka. Among the various services providing in university, transport service plays a major roll and it includes all the logistics services required in the university, staff transport and special transport facilities in special events. The management of motor transportation is handled by Motor Transport office (MTO) of KDU. The MTO is facing in challenges of dealing with allocation of vehicles and staff and ensuring no delays and obstacle in the service. The manual scheduling which is adopted at the present has many shortcomings in fleet and crew assignment in daily operations. Therefore this works main objective is to automate the Motor Transport Allocation System using Client Server Architecture. A tool was developed with NetBeans and MySQL by using Java Remote Method Invocation (Java RMI). For the development and testing of this tool it used Agile Development Methodology. The RMI application is to be installed on server that acquires vehicle request information through java virtual machines in different remote hosts in KDU. Then the multi criteria analysis algorithm will be used to prioritize the suitable vehicles to be selected by the MTO. The MTO’s selection informs the applicant via an e-mail accordingly. Further the system generates weekly, monthly and annual reports for administrative purposes. Application of this tool in the real environment will reduce all the possible human errors which will reason to increase the productivity. The result of this work shows the Client Server Architecture capability in increase efficiency and accuracy of the logistic vehicle allocation system in the defence secto