Projects:Jabber Features:Midterm Presentation

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Jabber2Web

(aka Jabber Features Group)

General Information

  • Who, What, Where, When, Why, How and How Much (not necessarily in that order)

Who

  • Wing Kai Chan
  • Brian Leung
  • Chuong Nguyen
  • Michael Stealey
  • Cory Weng

Why

  • Add functionality to an open sourced chat client (Jabber)
  • Primary feature is an interactive whiteboard
  • Allows the conveyance of ideas in the forms of ad hoc drawings or pictures that could not otherwise be expressed via text alone.

What

  • Most of the tools we are using are hosted by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) at UCLA
  • We using the open source jabber client code know as JBother
  • The source code is written in java so we are using Eclipse as our IDE
  • To organize our project we are using:
    • Wiki site (hosted by ACM)
    • dotProject (hosted by ACM) tasks, forums, files, gantt charts
  • To modify the existing code we are using:
    • CVS (hosted by ACM)
    • Eclipse on SEASnet (provided by ACM)

Where

  • We are keeping our official timeline on dotProject, and using the Wiki to post day to day progress

When

  • All meetings have taken place at UCLA
  • All coding can be done from UCLA labs, or remotely from home

How

  • Our architectual design is kept on the Wiki here and here

How Much

  • Source code is open source
  • Eclipse is free to download and use
  • ACM is hosting CVS, dotProject and Wiki
  • Only direct cost to the group is our time
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