Summer 1998 Documentation

VR Midtown: Class View Team

Table of Content

• Team Members
• Accomplishments this quarter
• Problems encountered this quarter
• Plans for next quarter; Fall 1998
• Team Roles for Fall 1998

Team members

• Klaus Bonaparte
• Nick Picciocca

Accomplishments this quarter

• Completed plan to integrate VRMidtown into CS1502
• Completed Java Native Interface for VRMidtown
• Completed Java Template for VRMidtown
• Tested Java code that interacted with VRMidtown
• Solved previous threading problems on SGI

Problems encountered this quarter

• Problem: JDK version available was too old and could not be used
Solution: After several e-mails and requests for help all machines
were finally updated to JDK 1.1.6

• Problem: Threading errors prevented us from developing
  Solution: Hours of research, debugging, and requests for help
  resulted in solving some threading errors. Some may
  still be present.


• Problem: Compiler errors concerning library paths prevented us
  from developing
  Solution: After exhausting hours of debugging, help@cc finally
  clued us in and made us realize that we were not doing
  anything wrong, but that the paths were set up really
  peculiar.

Plans for next quarter

• Robust test our Java templates and Java Native Interface (JNI)
• Add more functionality to our JNI
• Create templates and documentation for programs 6, 7, and 8
• Code and test P6 - 8 and record time to complete, etc.
• Stress Test VRMidtown, with a chipmunk "bomb" and port exliustion
• Hacker Test our Java and JNI and try to "break" VRMidtown
• Interact with CS1502 TAs and teach them VRMidtown interface

Team roles for next quarter

• Klaus Bonaparte: Java Templates, P6 - 8, interact with CS1502 TAs
  
• Nick Picciocca: JNI, Robust, Stress, and Hacker tests