Update & Documentation Submitted

[Week 31]

These past two weeks I've been very busy with the project and finishing off continuous assessment projects.

I started by looking at my method for generating the JTree. While taking Martin's comments on board I came up with a new method for constructing the tree correctly. This was great as I could then produce correct XPath expressions.

I moved onto to integrating Martin's code for querying. I learned about the SQL packages and classes that come with Java. More specifically which object to instantiate for passing an SQL statement, sending that to the database and collecting the results. This works well now and was a big milestone as I had then achieved all basic functionality with the project.

The meeting with Mark on Thursday was good as he gave some good suggestions on how to improve on what I had done. They were:
- Show before and after times (how my querying performs over eXist)
- Introduce the ability to specify a predicate on a node
- Introduce support for more datasets

I have managed to get basic predicates working. So a user may select a node, e.g. name and actually specify a name.

Martin provided me with lots more datasets. All XML files so I needed to write the schemas for these. I managed to complete this today. I may need to look into support attributes.

Submitted my Technical Specification, User Manual and Sample Code on Friday so good to get all that out of the way. I forgot to attach a print out of this blog, hopefully that will not be a problem. I'll contact GK tomorrow.

That's about it for now. It's time to focus on exams!