COP 4814 Lab 6 (20 Points in total)

Decorating Employee Objects (18 Points)

Write a Java program that uses decorator classes to add capabilities to employees. In a typical company, an employee will be asked to perform a number of duties, such as Department Head, Safety Coordinator, Recruiter, or Community Liason. You should have additional ones besides those. Your Java program will create Employees and then decorate these employees at runtime.

Create an abstract class named Employee, with last name and description fields, and a getDescription() method. Create a concrete class named SalariedEmployee that extends Employee. Create an abstract class named ResponsibilityDecorator that is able to decorate an employee and return the employee's responsibility as a string. It will have an abstract getDescription method. Create some job category classes that extend the ResponsibilityDecorator class and implement the getDescription() method. Should they have constructors?

In your main test program, create at least 3 Employee objects and pass them to the constructors of each of your decorator classes. Then, print each Employee by calling its getDescription() method. The program's output should look something like this for each :

[LastName]: Manager, Recruiter, CommunityLiaison, ProductionDesigner Of course, you print the person's name where the "[LastName]" placeholder is shown.