Weeks 10/11

Weeks 10/11 were mostly spent implementing UI changes that the nutrional science team contributed at our last meeting. The servlet that is handling the phone queries was also rehauled exensively to allow for the type of restaurant menu requests that we are going to need to handle.

I've decided to have the servlet reply to queries using JSON. This has the advantage that it is relatively small compared to Java's built in serialization of objects. In addition, this allows the server to be used for platforms that aren't running Java. Even though it is not in the scope of the project, this means that developing applications for other platforms (such as a webapp, a desktop application, or another phone OS) would be trivial.