Employment Management System (NetBeans)

📦 Project Overview

A complete Java implementation modeling company employment relationships with:

• Person → Employee/Employer inheritance
• Company composition
• Hiring management system
• Built with Apache NetBeans IDE

🛠️ NetBeans Setup

Project Structure

EmploymentSystem/
├── nbproject/          # NetBeans config files
├── src/
│   └── employmentsystem/
│       ├── Person.java
│       ├── Employee.java
│       ├── Employer.java
│       ├── Company.java
│       └── EmploymentSystem.java
└── test/              # (Optional for JUnit tests)

How to Run

1. Import in NetBeans:

   • File → Open Project (select folder)
   • Project will auto-configure

2. Run the Project:

   • Right-click project → Run (or press F6)

3. Expected Output:

   Company: Tech Corp with 2 employees and 1 employers
   Employer: John Smith of Tech Corp
   Employee: Bob Wilson, Role: Product Manager...
   

🖥️ Class Diagram

classDiagram
    Person <|-- Employee
    Person <|-- Employer
    Company "1" *-- "many" Employee
    Company "1" *-- "many" Employer
    
    class Person {
        -String name
        +getName()
    }
    
    class Employee {
        -String role
        -double salary
        -LocalDate startDate
        -Company company
    }
    
    class Employer {
        -Company company
        +hireEmployee()
    }
    
    class Company {
        -String name
        -List<Employee> employees
        -List<Employer> employers
        +addEmployee()
        +addEmployer()
    }

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📚 Key Features

Feature	Implementation Details
Inheritance	Person → Employee/Employer
Composition	Company contains Employees
Encapsulation	Private fields with getters
Date Handling	java.time.LocalDate for start dates

🚀 Extending the Project

1. Add New Classes:

   • Right-click package → New → Java Class

2. Create JUnit Tests:

   • Right-click class → Tools → Create Tests

3. Build JAR:

   • Right-click project → Clean and Build (JAR in dist/)

⚠️ .gitignore Recommendations

nbproject/private/
build/
nbbuild/
dist/
nbdist/
*.class
*.jar

📜 License

MIT License - Feel free to modify and distribute

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### Key Features:
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