Hi Denis,
Many people seem to need a tool which produces a machine-readable or
graph representation of the various phases of Derby's Abstract Syntax
Trees. Some discussion of this topic can be found on DERBY-3946,
DERBY-791, and DERBY-4415.
It might also be interesting to make a tool out of the DatabaseMetaData
functions/tableFunctions attached to DERBY-3973. Extra credit if this
could be integrated with ij.
I think these would be contained, safe projects for a GSoC student.
Thanks,
-Rick
Denis Weerasiri wrote:
Hi devs,
Does anyone have more ideas related to derby tools?
Cheers,
Denis
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Kathey Marsden
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Tiago Espinha wrote:
Dear all,
My name is Tiago Espinha and I participated in last year's
edition of Google Summer of Code. I've decided to participate
again this year
Welcome back and thanks for pulling DERBY-728 out of the freezer.
It is an often requested improvement. I put the labels
"mentor" and "gsoc" on the issue which is this year's process for
introducing it as a google summer of code idea. For GSOC you are
not limited to the ideas marked in Jira, but can introduce your
own idea as long as you find a mentor willing to pick it up.
I have always been a bit skeptical of code generation tools. It
has been well over a decade since I have even looked at one, but
my experience was that while great for prototyping, they just did
not produce maintainable or properly commented code and were not
practical when working on a mature existing code base like Derby,
but am willing to be proven wrong.
As for something meaty for your thesis, DERBY-472 Full text
indexing and search is forever popular. DERBY-11 is a more SQL
focussed project but should be a challenge. DERBY-672 user
defined aggregates might be interesting too, but I don't know how
much work it is exactly. I think there may be some pending XML
work too. Unfortunately though I can't step forward as a mentor
on any of these and hope you will work on DERBY-728 this summer
and start on a feature of some sort in the fall.
Kathey
