DPS909 and OSD600 Winter 2009 Eclipse WTP Weekly Schedule
Contents
Introduction
The course is broken into two parts. First, general open source and and community specific skills and ideas are taught. Students learn and/or review how to work with Java EE, WTP, Eclipse project techniques and practices. Second, students focus on bug fixing within the Eclipse WTP project itself.
Part I – Essential Open Source Development and Java/Eclipse Skills and Concepts
Week 1 (Jan 12) Course introduction
- Course introduction
- Intro to open source
- Intro to the Eclipse WTP project
- Software
- Readings/Resources
- "Cathedral and Bazaar" by Eric Raymond
- "Revolution OS" [film] (see also http://www.revolution-os.com/ or QA 76.9.A25 R68 2003)
- Books
- Database Resources:
- Java EE Tutorial and Samples (.zip)
- TODO
- Create an account on this wiki for yourself
- Create a personal wiki page on this wiki
- Add add a link for yourself to the People page and the Winter 2009 Open Source Students page
- Create a blog (wordpress or blogspot or whatever) and create a feed category or tag called "open source"
- Read the Blog Guidelines for instructions on how to use your blog in the course
- Add your blog feed and info to the Open Source@Seneca Planet List so that it appears in the OpenSource@Seneca Planet
- Blog on your reactions to the readings for this week.
- Begin learning how to use IRC for communication. We'll cover this in detail next week, but it's better to get started early.
- If you are familiar with IRC, after you install ECLIPSE WTP, you will include the ECF (Eclipse Communication Framework) so that your IRC client will be a communication perspective inside Eclipse. Please read the instructions to add IRC client to your Eclipse WTP:
- In Eclipse 3.4/Ganymede, choose Help -> Software Updates...
- Click on Available Features tab; Click on Manage Sites... button.
- Drag and drop the following URL from your browser to the list in the Manage Sites window: http://download.eclipse.org/rt/ecf/2.1/3.4/updateSite/site.xml
- Click OK in the Manage Sites window
- If you are familiar with IRC, after you install ECLIPSE WTP, you will include the ECF (Eclipse Communication Framework) so that your IRC client will be a communication perspective inside Eclipse. Please read the instructions to add IRC client to your Eclipse WTP:
Week 2 (Jan 19) - Eclipse Webtools Overview
- Eclipse Newcomers FAQ
- Eclipse Webtools Architecture Overview
- Eclipse Naming Conventions
- Eclipse WTP Community
- Blogs and Planets
- Intro to course wiki
- Guided Tour
- "Yes, you can edit it!"
- Common Editing tasks, History, Reverting changes
- Watches, Recent Changes
- Comparing selected versions (cf. diff)
- Editing help
- Book
- Tutorials
- TODO
- Complete all TODO items from Week 1
- Blog about your reactions to "Cathedral and Bazaar" and "Revolution OS".
- Comment in at least one other student's blog with your feedback to what they wrote
- Create an account on Eclipse Bugzilla