Status Report Six

CSC 333 Project Status Report

Project Name: HOME - Habitat Open Management Engine
Team Members: Jim Hurne, Jonathan Corbin, Tom Setliff (Project Lead), Denny Daugherty
Date Report Submitted: 2003/04/03
Time Period Reporting On: 2003/03/27 - 2003/04/03

1. Progress Made

   The largest amount of progress that we have made is in the area of User Interface. We have settled on our general structure for the User Interface, and have implemented a good portion of it. We have decided to use Tiles, a User Interface framework that comes with Struts. Tiles breaks each page into various "tiles" and utilizes a standard "Layout" for all of the pages. We have also settled on our directory structure for the application. Documentation on the directory structure can be found on the ApplicationDirectoryStructure page.

   Our meeting with Fred this week helped us to clarify a few things. Fred is going send us a document which will provide us with the exact types of information that will be stored on each homeowner.

   Also, in anticipation of the future, we experimented with an HTML dump of the wiki. The results were not a good as we had hoped. Only the most recent versions were dumped, images were not included, and the links still all pointed to the relative addresses of the pages on the wiki.

   Some progress has been made in determining how Harrisburg Habitat will maintain the application in the future. Matt Hurne, another student at Messiah College, will be starting a new Outreach Teams position known as the Computer Outreach Coordinator. This position will be geared toward organizing students to go out into the Harrisburg community, and help them with computer related issues. There is a very good chance that Matt could ether himself, or find another student who will be willing to maintain the application, when maintenance is required. Since the Computer Outreach Coordinator position is part of Outreach Teams, it will be sustainable, and should be able to provide Harrisburg Habitat with a student maintainer, if needed for an indefinite amount of time.

2. Plans for Upcoming Time Period Until Next Status Report Due

   We will finish the UI design and have a large portion of it nearly implemented. We will also start to make more progress with the Model and Control parts of the application. We will also find a way of making the UI design accessable from the project wiki. We will also incorporate the changes to the information stored by the system on homeowners as soon as Fred sends us the proper document.

3. Issues Resolved

   • We've nailed our UI design down.
   • We've made progress in solving the maintainability issues of the application.

4. New Issues to be Addressed

   • We need to find a way to dump wiki documents to static HTML documents
   • We need to find a way to incorporate our UI design into the project wiki.