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Week 2 - Status Report

Last Updated: 28th November 2001

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Meeting Notes - 13/11/2001

Recommended to read:

Cite Seer is a search engine for research papers, it also includes links to what other papers cite the paper you are currently viewing. It also contains BibTeX entries for that paper.

Decided that I would do my write ups in LaTeX (N.B. learn to use this) and, I need to keep records of everything I've read in something called BibTeX (N.B. also learn what the heck this is).

Download Shak's code and play with it. Attempt to run the tool with two concurrent versions of the same class and see if it can cope with this. Experience from using tomcat indicates that Java will barf if there are two versions of a class with the same fully qualified name, this may be due to a custom classloader that Tomcat uses than a Java problem. I believe Shak has written a custom classloader any way so this definitely needs trying out.

In regards to Shak's tool, Susan recommended adding versioning information to the constructors, which would stop the need to README files with versioning information. Need to review Shak's project in more detail to find out how he managed versioning. My current feelings on this are that is should be handled in the manifest file of the package's jar and classes shouldn't be aware of their version.

Group Meeting Notes - 15/11/2001

A group session for all students will be held on Thursdays at 12:00 in 218 each week. Went over general advice that was mentioned in previous meeting.

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Miles Barr <miles@milesbarr.com>