Developer's guide

Introduction

Purpose

This document aims to help the developer to implement, make evolve and/or modify the RR0-IS system.

Scope

This document target software developers, engineers and designers working on the technical aspects on a RR0-IS system. It affects the overall development of the RR0-IS systeme.

Definitions, acronyms and abbreviations

• AWT — Abstract Windowing Toolkit. A Java API to build GUI that can run on Java applets on the Web or on a J2ME CDC.
• CDC — Connected Device Configuration. A J2ME configuration that supports AWT.
• GUI — Graphical User Interface.
• J2ME — Java 2 Micro Edition. A Java platform specification for embedded or mobiles devices.
• HTML — HyperText Markup Language.
• HTTP — HyperText Transfer Protocol.
• RR0 IM — RR0 Information Model
• RR0 IS — RR0 Information System

See also the project's Glossary.

References

1. Javarome.net (french, translatable) — An amateur website that contains various definitions and documentation about Java software development.

Overview

This document describes the various extensions points in a RR0-IS, and the way to exploit them. It follows the system organisation by modules.

Client modules

Platform constraints

Client modules are restricted on the following platforms :

• HTML 4.01
• Java 1.1.8 applets (i.e., not above), to ensure compatibility with Microsoft Internet Explorer (i.e. without requiring additional components to download) and the Personal Profile (PP, formerly known as PersonalJava) of the J2ME CDC configuration (which allows to run on sophisticated handeld devices and PDAs such as Palm/PalmPilots, PocketPCs, etc.).

Visual testimonial applet

UFO Shapes

Each UFO shape is a JavaBean. It has customizable properties, and complies with a specific interface.

To create a new UFO Shape, just define a new class that implement the UFOShape interface.

Coding conventions

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