Davoud

Davoud Salahi Rad

About

BSD student; graduating Winter 2009.

Received A and A+ in 30 of 37 courses taken so far; current cumulative GPA: 3.82 out of 4, been on the President’s Honour List for outstanding academic achievement 3 times - once every year since started at Seneca - 2006, 2007 and 2008.

More about me and address to my blog: '[1]'

Project

Fixing a bug... !!

Bugs worked on

Bug#: 168784 Normal, P3 - web service generating error from a simple java class

Other bugs

It's been very hard to make sense of the reported bugs. I've tried to browse over all 450 (reported as of Feb 1st); here are some other ones to consider:

• Normal

1. Bug 251251 Normal, P3 - content assist offers invalid attribute
2. Bug 154860 Normal, P3 - Scrollbar does not page down
3. Bug 121887 Normal, P3 - publish page is persistent
4. Bug 244862 Normal, P3 - Closing the server project doesn't call stop server

• Minor

1. Bug 121094 Minor, P3 - [tutorial] Building a School Schedule Web App tutorial needs updating
2. Bug 104863 Minor, P3 - Finish button not disabled on the Web service publication page
3. Bug 209289 Minor, P3 - delete button is enabled even when there are no extensions to delete
4. Bug 155839 Minor, P3 - J2EEUtils class has methods that cause null pointer exceptions
5. Bug 92625 Minor, P3 - Reset button on WSDL explorer page doesn't work

Weekly Activity

Work done during DPS909 - Winter 09:

Week 1

• Created Accounts:
  • Zenit Wiki
  • Blog
  • Bugzilla
  • IRC
• Created personal wiki page
• Added link to People's page
• Added links to Winter 2009 Students's page
• Added blog feed to Planet List

• Readings/Exploring:
  • Cathedral and Bazaar
  • Revolution OS
  • Eclipse WTP - procedure
  • Eclipse WTP Overview

Week 2

• Installed Eclipse WTP and PlugIn
• Familiarized myself with the environment
• Tried a minor fix enhancement to get hands-on experience with Eclipse WTP bug fixing - adding date, example from tutorial
• Readings:
  • Java EE Overview - Developing Enterprise Applications
  • Eclipse Webtools Architecture Overview

Week 3

• Tried reproducing Bug 173912
• Went over *list of prescribed WTP bugs and picked some!! :)
• Looked over suggested readings on the course weekly sched:
  • Eclipse Plugin
  • WTP Server Tools API Concepts
• Published list of bugs being considered

Week 4

• 0.1 Release - Reproduced bug
• Browsed Eclipse web pages:
  • Eclipse Source Repositories
  • WTP Servertools
  • WTP Project Development
  • Eclipse Documentation

Week 5

• OpenSeminar Tutorials
• Getting Started Using Eclipse
• Practice the Eclipse Debugger

Week 6

• Browse over Eclipse WTP Wiki
• Building Eclipse Enterprise Application Tutorial
• Attended presentation by Angel Vera

Week 7

• Attended presentation by Lawrence Mandel
• Eclipse Plugin Development Tutorial

Week 8

• Comparing Eclipse - NetBeans

Week 9

• Web Persistence with JPA

Week 10

• Verified bug and fixes using latest build: M6

Week 11

Week 12

• 0.3 Release: Presentation and update bug fix on Bugzilla

Week 13

• 0.2 Release: Blog and Wiki update with bug fix description and how-to

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Useful Links

Zenit Wiki

• DPS909 - Winter 2009 Weekly Schedule
• Winter 2009 Open Source Students
• DPS909 Project Requirements Page
• DPS909 Course Description Page

Eclipse WTP

• Tutorials:
  • Development Essentials Tutorial - Setup, Connection, CVS, Patch and more
  • Building Eclipse Web Application Tutorial

• List of WTP Bugs
• Eclipse WebTools NewsPortal

Other

• Open Source@Seneca Planet - Recent Blog Posts