Worklog, Conclusions and Final Remarks

First Day

• Initial difficulties with the network setup. Provided router had limited capacity and router had to be reconfigured to assign fixed IPs to virtual machines. Difficulties in setting up vm intercommunication
• Missing requirements on hosts running vmware images. Many had old laptops with just 2GB RAM or slow CPUs
• Not all participants had worked recently with C++, little to no CORBA experience
• C++ component tutorial too advance for the basic track. Need ACS component examples (instead of characteristic components examples).
• Difficulties in understanding what needed to be done to start the exercise. Need to bridge better concepts and methodology with the code mechanics. DataBase was the most affected
• Progress: 3/4 of first goal (30%) -> 22.5% of first day

Second Day

• Review of difficulties on previous days. Bridged concepts with C++ class diagrams for the coding mechanics. Minor fixes to the code were provided by ITS (MACI macros, method signatures)
• After providing a project CDB and demonstrating activation/deactivation to the group reached 100% of second goal for first day
• First integrated manual tests (ITS/config/CDB created, activation/deactivation with objexp, activation/deactivation with python simple client).
• Progress: 30% of second day reached
• Initial pyUnit test and TAT files examples provided, pointers to acsexplBuiding and acsexmplFridge examples provided. Skeleton for DataBase component provided

Third Day