Employee Management System

A console-based Employee Management System built using Java, MySQL, JDBC, and Maven.

The project focuses on applying Core Java and OOP concepts while implementing database-backed employee and department management.

Features

• Add, display, search, update, and delete employees
• Add, display, update, and delete departments
• Employee status management using Enum
• Input validation
• MySQL database persistence
• JDBC-based CRUD operations

Concepts Used

• OOP
• Encapsulation
• Abstraction
• Polymorphism
• Interfaces
• Collections
• Exception Handling
• Enums
• JDBC
• SQL
• CRUD Operations
• Layered Architecture

Tech Stack

• Java 21
• MySQL
• JDBC
• Maven
• IntelliJ IDEA
• Git & GitHub

Architecture

Main
  ↓
Service
  ↓
Repository
  ↓
JDBC
  ↓
MySQL

Project Structure

src/main/java/org/employeeManagement
│
├── model
├── repository
├── service
├── exception
└── util

Learning Objective

This project is built to strengthen Java backend fundamentals by combining Core Java, OOP, SQL, JDBC, and database-driven application development.