OSS Experience

This post will be on my review on a Java-based Open Source System. My overview is based on the Three Prime Directives which are:

Prime Directive 1. The system successfully accomplishes a useful task.
Prime Directive 2. An external user can sucessfully install and use the system.
Prime Directive 3. An external developer can successfully understand and enhance the system.

Overview

The open source package I chose to evaluate for use for my software engineering course is java2HTML. This package can be downloaded at http://sourceforge.net/projects/java2html/.
The objective of this application is to provide a simple-to-use tool which converts Java Source Code into a colourized and browsable HTML representation.


Prime Directive 1

This package successful meets the Prime Directive 1 by accomplishing the task of converting Java Source Code into an easily readable HTML code which can be uploaded as a simple method for none HTML/CSS coders to share code they have developed on the web.


Prime Directive 2

This package meets Prime Directive 2 as it can be successfully installed as a stand alone application without task more complex then setting the proper directories.


Prime Directive 3

The package meets Prime Directive 3 as an external developer can successful understand and enhance the system with basic Java knowledge up to the point of being able to ulitize a jar file.

The package does provide sufficent documentation to utilize all of its functions without reading any of its code.

FizzBuzz Application

During the first day of Software Engineering class, we had to write the FizzBuzz application on paper which was hard since I didn't remember all the java syntax at that moment. One of this week's assignments was to write the appplication in Eclipse. After a 10 minute review of the Java syntax this application took me about five minutes to implement. It was a good way for me to get back into the groove of programming since I haven't been done it for quite some time now. I didn't encounter any problems during the writing of this application.

The code below implements the FizzBuzz application.

public class FizzBuzz {
//FizzBuzz application prints FizzBuzz for numbers that are both multiples of 3 and 5. It prints Buzz for mulitples of 5 and Fizz for multiples of 3.

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    for(int i = 1; i <= 100; i++) {
      if(i % 15 == 0) {
        System.out.println("FizzBuzz");
      }
      else if(i % 5 == 0) {
        System.out.println("Buzz");
      }
      else if(i % 3 == 0) {
        System.out.println("Fizz");
      }
      else {
        System.out.println(i);
      }
    }
  }
}