Overview

MyContacts - Simple Contact Book with UI (JavaFX) using xml file as datasource - project under development

Requirements:

• Java 11

How to run

• clone and download repository
• make sure you have switched to Java 11*
• go to project file (/myContacts/) - make sure you see folder "target" and file "contacts.xml"
• install repository using maven clean install command in terminal window
• while in "myContacts" folder, run jar file from console using:

java -jar target/mycontacts-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

*due to an error in Maven plugin "maven-compiler-plugin" app doesn't work with Java 12 and higher so far

Features implemented so far

File Menu

Simple popup menu with te following features:

• "Add new" - add a new contact to database
• "Edit" - edits selected contact
• "Delete" - deletes selected contact
• "Exit" - exits application

Add new contact dialog

Simple window to get data from user (same component is used when user wants to edit contact)

Known bugs (to be fixed in next update)

• InvocationTargetException when user wants to edit contat without selecting one (after he accepts warning message)