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Home Library Application (20 marks)The main menu of the program should contain the following details:Write a Java console program that allows you to record, search and display information about books in your personal home library

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Home Library Application (20 marks)The main menu of the program should contain the following details:Write a Java console program that allows you to record, search and display information about books in your personal home library. The data that is recorded should be available across user sessions. Make use of files and serialization to accomplish this task. Your application should contain a Book class, a Library class (for adding, displaying, searching, deleting and saving books) and any other classes needed to obtain the functionality below. 

## Welcome to the Home Library System ##

Please select one of the following options:

1. Add a new book

2. Delete a book

3. Search for a book

4. Display all books

5. Exit

When option 1 is selected, the program will ask for the following details:

Title of the book

Author of the book

Year of publication

ISBN number

For the purpose of this task, the ISBN number is a unique 10 digit number consisting only of individual digits in the range 0-9. If you hold two copies of the same book they will have the same ISBN number but will otherwise be distinct. Create an ISBNFormatError class to respond to formatting errors of this type.

 

Once the user correctly enters the information above and presses "return", the book should be added to an appropriate data structure. If the book was successfully created and added, print a suitable message and re-show the main menu. If the book was not successfully created or added, print a suitable message and re-show the main menu. 

When option 2 is selected the program will ask the following:

Search a book for deletion by

1. Title

2. Author

3. Year of publication

4. ISBN number

Let the user select one of these sub options and enter appropriate details. Error messages should appear for incorrect formatting (ISBN), invalid year information (i.e., not a 4 digit number) and for fields left blank.

Return all books as a listing in alphabetical order based on title, then author, then year, and give the user the option to delete the book. Report a suitable message if no books are returned.

Make sure you give the user an option to re-access the main menu once they have completed this deletion operation.

When option 3 is selected then the program will ask the following:

Search for a book by

1. Title

2. Author

3. Year of publication

4. ISBN number

Let the user select one of these sub options and enter appropriate details. Error messages should appear for incorrect formatting (ISBN), invalid year information (i.e., not a 4 digit number) and for fields left blank.

All books that meet the search criteria should be displayed. Report a suitable message if no books are returned. Make sure you give the user an option to re-access the main menu once they have completed their search.

When option 4 is selected display all books in the library based on the alphabetical order of the title. If there are two copies of the same book, the one with the lowest publication year should be displayed first. The display order should be based on year first, then author, then date of publication, as follows:

 

Title: A day in the country

Author: Anne Preston

Year: 2001

ISBN:7488796045

Title: Last light

Author: Alex Scarrow

Year: 2007

ISBN:991145598

Title: Nineteen eighty four

Author: George Orwell

Year: 1984

ISBN:1991145592

Title: Nineteen eighty four

Author: George Orwell

Year: 1986

ISBN: 2991145592

Title: Nineteen eighty four

Author: Mary Owen

Year: 1986

ISBN:1676957444

 

When 5 is selected, the program will exit. Note that before the program terminates, you should save all information about the book collection in the home library to file. When the program is relaunched, this information should be reloaded into the program.