Recapping Lots of Stuff

It’s been a fairly long time since my last entry, so I figured it’s time to write another one. A good amount of work has been getting done.
Firstly, actual work on the plug-in has started. I most recently committed code letting the user ping the server with their connection settings. I’ve also [...]

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The Ins and Outs of an ODA Plug-in

Edit: It’s come to my attention through @danielroy on twitter that the walkthrough I mention below is no longer available. Sorry about that! I’ve included what was the text of it at the bottom of this entry. Thank goodness for Google Docs
The last few days have been spent learning about and understanding the [...]

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A Shell of a Plug-in

Well, I’ve finally got a basic, no-functionality plug-in. I tried copying various aspects of other ODA adapters, such as the Flat File and JDBC ODA Plug-ins. However, nothing worked better than just going with a lot of pre-set-up options. So, here is a walkthrough on how to get a shell of a [...]

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Working with Eclipse and Plug-ins

Over the past few days, I’ve been experimenting with the plug-ins and the ODA API. I finally got a nice Javadoc set up of the ODA API, generated from getting the source to the ODA interfaces and getting it into Eclipse and generating the Javadocs from within Eclipse. I’ve put them on the Internet [...]

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Background Reading

Over the past few days, I’ve been getting set up.  I’ve mostly got up an Eclipse development setup, and I’ve been reading up on various API documentation.  Not the most glamourous part of this summer’s project, but I’ve got to gain background.
As for the Web service side of things, I’ve been reading on the Javadocs [...]

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