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
- TODO
- Create an account on this wiki for yourself
- Create a personal wiki page on this wiki
- 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. It is better to get started early such as your Eclipse workplace is set for programming.
- After you install Eclipse for RCP/Plug-in Developers (175 MB) you will have ECF (Eclipse Communication Framework) and IRC client; you can open an IRC client from the Communication Perspective.
Week 2 (Jan 19) - Eclipse Webtools Overview
The First Milestone
At the end of the second week you must have an working environment:
Please, follow the instructions to install Eclipse PlugIn and WTP on your systems.
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