DPS909 and OSD600 Winter 2009 Eclipse WTP Weekly Schedule
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Upcoming Special Events and Guest Speakers
Important Date: Eclipse BugDay / February 2009 |
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 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
- 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 - Eclipse WTP conventions
- Project discussion
- Readings/Resources
- 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
- Try to reproduce bug for BugID: 173912
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IMPORTANT NOTE: As it was suggested by Mr. Angel Vera: “The best place for the students to post question and get answers to it will be the eclipse newsgroup". There is a long list of newsgroups that you can benefit from depending on the question. As you are going to be working with Webtools, you would probably want to stay within the Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project. This is an open community of adopters and developers working with the Webtools project.
- Introduction to the Eclipse WTP SOURCE CODE (CVS)
- Eclipse Plug-In Programming Model
- Readings/Resources
- TODO
- Inspect the bugs from the LIST of WTP BUGS
- Read The first WTP Tutorial and use CVS Perspective from the Eclipse Plug-In Development environment to check out source code related to your bug(s).
- Decide and publish under your name the list of bug(s) you would like to work on in this course.
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IMPORTANT NOTE: The marks obtained on the second milestone will be posted on your course page. Continue to wiki and blog intensively as a provided evidence of your persist involvement and dedication to improve WTP Projects by fixing bugs in such a wonderful community work.
Week 4 (Feb 2) - WTP Servertools Webpage
- WTP Servertools Webpage
- WTP Project Development
- Building Eclipse Web Application
- Readings/Resources
- TODO
- Study the structure of Eclipse Source Repositories
- Study the Eclipse Documentation. Look for Web Tools Platform User Guide
- Project Deliverable - Release 0.1
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Week 5 (Feb 9) - Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Eclipse Buzilla
- How to create a Bugzilla account
- How to use eclipse with CVS and download the WTP source code
- Documentation
- Release 0.1 Assignment 1 - Due Date:Feb 19, 2009
- TODO
- Read about Test-driven development for using the JUnit testing facility in Eclipse.
- Read the tutorial Unit Testing in Eclipse Using JUnit
- Practice the Eclipse Debugger. Use this tutorial for an introduction to debugger's features. One can download the tutorials
Week 6 (Feb 16) - Eclipse WTP wiki
- Eclipse WTP project wiki
- Guide on package and plugin naming convention
- Mailing list: wtp-dev
- Building Eclipse Enterprise Application
- Documentation
- Presentation
- Angel Vera, Eclipse WTP Project Team Committer
- Topic: WTP - API Concepts and Roles
- Server Tools Architecture
- Techniques to find the source code for a specific bug
- Time: Tuesday Feb, 17 from 11:40 a.m. to 1:25 p.m. @ S2149
- TODO
- Read the tutorial Code Access Guide to Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede)
- Based on today Feb. 17 presentation of Mr. Angel Vera, write a blog about code finding procedure in Eclipse WTP (define clearly the steps for finding the code your are working with). Your blog will be marked. Please create an entry on our discussion corner with a link to your blog.
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Week 7 (Feb 23) - WTP Stable Build
- Eclipse Platform (Platform, JDT)
- EMF v2.5 Runtime Minimum executable code.
- EMF XSD v2.5 Runtime Minimum executable code.
- Graphical Editing Framework (GEF)
- Data Tools Platform (DTP)
- Assignment 2 - Due: Feb 26, 2009
- Presentation
- Lawrence Mandel, Software Developer IBM Rational Software
- Eclipse Plug-in Architecture
- Techniques for developing Eclipse WTP
- Tuesday Feb, 24 from 11:40 a.m. to 1:25 p.m. @ S2149
- Lawrence Mandel, Software Developer IBM Rational Software
- TODO
- TBA
- For any discussion and course related questions please use Discussion and Helping Corner page. (Note: There is a table of blog links for our little WTP BUG-FIXING community.)