Project Startup

CVS

For the project you will all be working as a single team. To facilitate group work you will be using Concurrent Versions System (CVS), which is supported by the netbeans IDE. The starting source code for the project is held in a CVS repository.

• You checkout the code at the start of the project. This brings the starting code into a local work directory.
• You make modifications and additions to the code in numerous work sessions. At the beginning of each session you should do a CVS update command to ensure that your local work directory incorporates changes made by other members of the team.
• After making modifications, you should build the project to check that it is working correctly, then do a CVS commit operation to put the changes that you have made into the repository.

Getting Starting Code for the CS5741 Project

To obtain the starting code for the CS5741 project, first start up netbeans and in the menus select Versioning->CVS->Checkout.

A "Checkout" wizard should appear. You are then on step 1 of the wizard: "CVS Root". Here you select the repository that contains the files that you will start with.

Click on the "Edit..." button to the right of the "CVS Root:" combo box.

A "Edit CVS Root" dialog should appear. Enter the following fields:

• In the "Access Method:" drop-down list select "ext".
• In the "User:" text field enter your login name.
• In the "Host:" text field enter "ub.d.umn.edu".
• In the "Repository Path:" text field enter "/home/volc/47/gshute/cs5741root".
• You can leave the "Port:" text field blank.

Then click on the "OK" button.

Now, you are back at the "CVS Root" page of the "Checkout" wizard.

• Make sure the "Use Internal SSH" radio button is on.
• In the "Password:" field, enter your password

Then click on the "Next >" button.

This puts you on step 2 of the Checkout wizard: "Module to Checkout". Here you select the module containing the starting files for the project.

• Enter "CS5741Source" into the "Module:" text field.
• Change the "Local Folder:" text field if you want the project source files in a different place than the default.

Click on the "Finish" button in the "Checkout" wizard.

After a while, you will be asked if you want to create an IDE project. Click on "Create project...".

A "New Project" wizard should appear. You are then on step 1 of the wizard: "Choose Project". Here you select the type of project that you will be working on.

• In the "Categories:" list box select "Java".
• In the "Projects:" list box select "Java Project with Existing Sources".

Then click on the "Next >" button.

This puts you on step 2 of the wizard: "Name and Location".

• In the "Project name:" text field, enter "CS5741Project".
• Change the "Local Folder:" text field if you want the project directory in a different place than the default.

Then click on the "Next >" button.

This puts you on step 3 of the wizard: "Existing Sources". Click on the "Add Folder..." button to the right of the "Source Package Folders: list box.

This brings up the "Browse Source Packages Folder" dialog.

• Use it to locate the CS5741Source folder that you created earlier.

Then click on the "OK" button.

Now, you are back at step 4 of the wizard: "Includes & Excludes". Do not make any changes to the defaults on this step. Just click on the "Finish" button.

This completes the setup for the project.

Checking the Setup

First build the new project that you have started. Then run the executable "Info.java" in the package swing.components. This should start up a program that shows and describes some of the Swing components. Although no we page is provided for it, this program can also be run as an applet.

For the project, you will be adding a few new subpackages of the swing package Each will contain a new application/applet providing information about a different aspect of the Swing framework.