People Finder  People Finder

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This essay is about a suggested student project in Java programming. This essay gives a rough overview of how it might work. It does not describe an actual complete program. I have no source, object, specifications, file layouts or anything else useful to implementing this project. Everything I have to say to help you with this project is written below. I am not prepared to help you implement it; I have too many other projects of my own.

I do contract work for a living, which could include writing a program such as this. However, I don’t do people’s homework for them. That just robs them of an education.

You have my full permission to implement this project any way you please.

The intent of this project is to easily find somebody’s address, phone number or email address using various databases on the web. You have to enter the name of the person you are search for in many different formats, one for each search engine. People search engines include: Your job is to write an application that lets you enter the name to search for and additional information you might have in one standard format, then submit that to each of the specialised name search engines, and summarise the results. You can then use this to find email addresses, phone numbers or snail mail addresses, depending on which search engines you use.

Technically this is very similar to the Submit-It clone project.

To speed things up, you can spin off a thread for each search engine so that you can query them in parallel.

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