Week 3 : 09/11/2007 to 09/17/2007 ( 8 hrs) Web-CAT and Labrat

This week the activities focused on getting to know Web-CAT and Labrat at the source code level.

Web-CAT

1. Download the source-code through CVS client which is part of NetBeans IDE 5.5.
2. There are too much unfamiliar technologies(WebObjects) and lack of documentation(build/source)
made it quite difficult to come to any conclusion on making source code changes to Web-CAT.
3. It also looked like every backing object for a web Page is derived from a auto-generated persistent objects, meaning that every page is mapped to a persistent store object.

LabRat
1. Downloaded the source code for the standalone tool and the web interface
2. Installed the environment(glass fish App Server, ANT(build env) etc.
3. Built and deployed the jars.
4. There are some errors while invoking the pages in the web-interface. (Cyclic references)