Project Log: March - April
March 10, 2011
Met Tim Walker at Kiwiplan. He gave me a rough outline of the project details.
March 16, 2011
Went to Kiwiplan and met Edward and Edison. Edward will be my mentor for this project and Edison will act as a pretend client to the service. Got a better idea of what functions are needed to include in the profiler. I also met Johnny, who was the mentor for the student project when the profiler was initially created.
Spent most of the day having my computer set up with the right access permission and programs. I also played around with the profiler and looked at some of the source code.
March 23, 2011
Worked on an information project/development plan which includes some functional specifications and architecture details. Looked into the Hibernate Interceptor interface which can be used to intercept calls made to a database.
March 30, 2011
Edward and I came up with a rough timeline for the project. I looked into various profiling tools and more research into the Hibernate Interceptor. I have a good idea of how it can be used to intercept queries. I now need to find how to integrate it with the current profiler. I have also made a rough draft of the Introductory Seminar.
April 8, 2011
I have updated the Development Plan to include a rough timeline of the project and what technology I plan to use. I included some details on what is needed for the Hibernate Interceptor to work
April 13, 2011
Edward went over my Development Plan and thinks I am on the right track with the Interceptor. He told me to think more about the GUI of the profiler and think of ideas of how to improve it. He also thinks I should start creating an Interceptor to test on a small table to see how it runs. I updated the User Interaction section of the Development Plan and have started creating a simple Interceptor class.
April 17, 2011
I have made the slides for my Introductory Seminar. I will need to get this reviewed by my industry and academic mentors. I have also made some small updates to the Development Plan which can now be downloaded from the Resources page.
April 22, 2011
I have created a simple Contact class to test my Interceptor on. I am now configuring the Interceptor and starting to implement some methods.
April 28, 2011
I have been looking into how to log SQL and HQL queries. This included me learning about HQL since I've never used it before. I found something called the SLF4J (Simple Logging Facade for Java) which Hibernate uses. I've also looked into how to find the transaction time.