i. Title
My Personal Map Quest

ii. Author
Oren Flint

iii. Abstract
My Project will provide a full client/server soultion for providing the user
with an interface to a limited mini-version of mapquest. Specifically my application 
will give the user the ability to get a map of how to get from one place to another
while providing directions to the destination.

iv.What
The project in general utilizes the tools we were intruded to in project 2 and 3. The idea is
to create a J2EE client/server application that give the user the ability to get a map of how 
to get from one place to another while providing directions to the destination.

General implementation description:
1. The UI will be an HTML document which shall give the user the ability to choose his/her
   origin and destination from a predefined list of intersections (stored as in XML format on the server side).
2. Upon submitting the request, The selections are going to be passed to the servlet, when then
   a XSLT stylesheet is going to be instantiated to process the request. The information passed to the 
   XSLT stylesheet is going to be the list of intersections and the user selections as XML document.
3. The XSLT stylesheet is going to generate a map (SVG) with streets and intersections while finding the shortest
   path between the origin and destination and drawing a line that goes through the relevant intersection.
4. The list of intersection shall include also coordinates (x,y) which will help with setting also a set of 
   textual instructions from the origin to the destination.

v. Why
I picked this project because it gives me a change to implement the ideas we learned in project 2 and 3
on generating an application which i use every day. Personally the Xtube project was the most enjoyable project
which lead me the though of this project. The added values gained in project3 using client/servers applications
just completed the picture to me to go with a mini version of map quest. Also as an amateur artist seeing some sort
of a self-made sketch output ... made it a good candidate.
The problems I’m trying to tackle here are pretty much combining the same as the problems introduced in 
project 2 & 3.

vi. How
General implementation description:
1. The UI will be an HTML document which shall give the user the ability to choose his/her
   origin and destination from a predefined list of intersections (stored as in XML format on the server side).
2. Upon submitting the request, The selections are going to be passed to the servlet, when then
   a XSLT stylesheet is going to be instantiated to process the request. The information passed to the 
   XSLT stylesheet is going to be the list of intersections and the user selections as XML document.
3. The XSLT stylesheet is going to generate a map (SVG) with streets and intersections while finding the shortest
   path between the origin and destination and drawing a line that goes through the relevant intersection.
4. The list of intersection shall include also coordinates (x,y) which will help with setting also a set of 
   textual instructions from the origin to the destination.

vii. Questions
None.