Open Source Emailing Marketing Web App

Requirement

• To be able to  create a HTML page with images on it,
• To be able to email the created HTML Page (AKA Flyer/Brochure) to 500 or more client emails with a single click of a button.
• The User wants to monitor the transmission statuses of the emails sent.
• An online demo 

Use case Diagram for a Simple Email Marketing System

Solution

git clone: https://github.com/byorn/emailmarketting.git

Note: To make this software online, we will have to make this a maven a project and  it would have to be deployed to Open Shift.

Prerequisites

• Install XAMP or LAMP 
• Create a database called ehammer
• Run the SQL Script to create the tables.
• Make sure the file paths in the Web.xml exist.

Technical Features To Notice

• Single Page Web App with JSF Prime Faces and JQuery 
• Achieving connection pooling with Hibernate C3PO. 
• Achieving Asynchronous Email Sending with Quartz as this product will be initially deployed on a Cheap Tomcat Hosting Environment that does not support the Java EE 5 Web Profile or Asynchronous Servlets.
• Configured Log 4J.

Improvements to be made

Migrate to a Maven or Gradle 

To be able to host in JBoss

To use Postgres as the Database

To deploy to Open Shift.

Any volunteers for the project is most welcome!