Hello Folks,
This is my first official report for the Google Summer of Code about my project on recursively building dependencies of java projects. More details can be found on my project proposal page [1]. For those unaware, you can expect to hear from me once a week throughout the summer detailing my progress.
This first week I haven't been up to too much in terms of coding, but have started to pour the foundation for the project. I've also setup a wiki page [2] to track progress and spit out some design problems and solutions. High level problems will likely be discussed on the debian-java mailing list and cross-posted on that page.
The source repository and coding standards (checkstyle, pmd, etc.) have also been setup [3] (link also found in [2]) which should have content pushed sometime next week. Late in the week, I started to investigate the Maven 3 APIs to find the best way to resolve metadata from a Maven repository. I also took some time to setup testing infrastructure which will be used to verify that the project works (testing maven plugins is not always straight forward, especially when requiring Maven APIs). It also helps to see the Maven APIs in action to see what's possible.
That's all for now folks. You can expect to see more from me next week.
Cheers,
Andrew