Summary: Designing a Meeting Scheduler

Now that you’ve completed the Meeting Scheduler case study, let’s take a moment to reflect on and consolidate what we’ve learned. We’ll revisit the key system requirements, identify the core classes along with their responsibilities and relationships, and highlight the major design principles applied. We’ll also examine how objects interact within the system and walk through the overall workflow to understand how the components come together to achieve the desired functionality.

Key requirements

The following are the primary functional and operational requirements for the Meeting Scheduler system:

1. Support a configurable number of meeting rooms with editable capacities.

2. Prevent room overbooking by checking availability and overlapping intervals.

3. Automatically notify participants when meetings are scheduled, updated, or canceled.

4. Track each participant’s invitation response (accepted, declined, pending).

5. Provide each user with a personal calendar for meeting management.

6. Allow organizers to add or remove participants and notify them accordingly.

7. Handle scheduling conflicts and overlapping meetings with clear feedback.

8. Allow editing of meeting details with real-time updates and notifications. ...