Design web service academic information system based multiplatform

Abstract

Academic Information is very important for college students and should be conveyed to all students equally. But as is well known that a lot of students make the staff of college cannot convey information in a personal one by one on each student. In order to support good communication, synchronized, and quick to students. College facilitates through conventional media announcement. Academic Information that is conveyed conventionally to students through flyers and bulletin board are often distributed ineffectively. Besides that, students are also bothered by having to come to campus every day just to see the latest announcements on the bulletin board. The purpose of this research is to design and build a multiplatform application that can be accessed through android platform and browser with same based code and allow students to access the latest academic information anywhere and anytime as well as reduce the uneven distribution of information. System is built using Representational State Transfer (REST) web service that handle variety of cross platform application. Data is sent in Javascript Object Notation (Json) format, where client application only need to parse data and provide them to students. Based on the results, an application has achieved the goal which is an application of academic information that helps students to access information easily by utilizing web service technology.