Week 4: 09/18- 09/24 (18 hrs) ( JSF 1.2 and Labrat)

These were the following activities.

Ramp up on JSF 1.2 ( 10 hrs)

Most of the time was focussed on ramp up on JSF 1.2. Core JSF (Chapters 1-6) and Chapter 9.


Labrat ( 2 hrs)

Executed the standalone labrat script on an exercise example. I did have to spend some time converting the bash shell commands to windows scripts. Looked at the code to figure out the execution path. ( 4 hrs)

Web-Labrat ( 2 hrs )

Changed the initialization parameters such as the repository path. It still gives the error "cyclic reference". I debugged this a little bit. I think it is failing because of the repository path and the bad repository path exception is not handled in the ProblemSubmission.load() method.

On windows I have given the repository path as

C:\\java\\labrat\\exercises in web.xml intialization parameter section.

Feature: Upload exercises in Web labrat ( 4 hrs )

Work in progress. I have decided to implement it as a custom JSF component. For example