Internetworkers Polling App

Architect & Developer: Michael D. Thomas mdthomas@mindspring.com
Social Integration Guru: David Matusiak matusiak@speakeasy.net

The Internetworkers Polling App will be used in the upcoming INW Survey 2003 to gauge opinions and energies of the Internetworkers. Upon completion, the source code will be released in to the open source community. Care is being taken to develop a general survey app that will be useful to other communities. Other high points:

  • Anyone can submit questions
  • Survey submissions sorted by judged validity
  • Email confirmation and registration functionality
  • XML/XSL based -- easy to change the look and feel
  • Can be used for online voting

Here's the stuff that is done so far:

Polling Functional Specification. High level discussion of the problems on online surveying and how this app will overcome the problems.

Create Question Module. Create a question for the survey.

Polling Render Servlet. Performs XSLT transformation to display the survey. Don't bother taking the survey -- there is no submit button.

System Diagram. Diagram of the overall architecture of the system.