DPS909 and OSD600 Winter 2009 Eclipse WTP Weekly Schedule

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
  • Eclipse WTP Overview
  • Eclipse Web Tools Community Resources
  • Java EE Intro
• Software
  • Java Standard Edition: Java SE
  • Java Enterprise Edition: Java EE
  • Eclipse WTP - Install Procedure

• 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
    • Eclipse Web Tools Platform – Developing Java Web Applications by Dai, Mandel, Ryman (ISBN 0321396855)
    • Eclipse Plug-ins [3rd Edition] (Eclipse Series) by Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel
    • Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse
  • Database Resources:
    • MySql (.jar)
    • Oracle (.jar)
    • My Accounts
  • 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. It is the best place for your IRC client; you can open an IRC client from the Communication Perspective.
    • Otherwise, after you install ECLIPSE WTP, you can include the ECF (Eclipse Communication Framework) so that your IRC client will be a communication perspective inside Eclipse WTP if you wish to have it there. 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

Week 2 (Jan 19) - Eclipse Webtools Overview

• Eclipse Newcomers FAQ
• Eclipse Webtools Architecture Overview
• Eclipse Naming Conventions
• Eclipse WTP Community
  • Eclipse WTP Community Education
• Blogs and Planets
  • OpenSource@Seneca Planet
• 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
    • Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse
  • Tutorials
    • JDBC Tutorial
    • XML Tutorial
    • ANT Tutorial
    • WTP Server Tools API Concepts and Roles
• 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

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.