WattDepot-Apps: Second Milestone

After my groups weekly meeting with Prof. Johnson last week Tuesday, it was decided that we will continue to work on the WattDepot-Apps project for the second milestone of the semester. Our most recent distribution of WattDepot-Apps implemented the basic visualizer without multi-source capabilities, and a skeleton structure for the WattDepot Browser page. Though the distribution itself is mainly for the Visualizer while still containing source code for pages in the next iteration (i.e. Browser page).

What seemed like would be natural to start working on the Browser page, Robert Brewer and Prof. Johnson decided that the next application to be developed will be the WattDepot Monitor instead. The WattDepot Monitor is an application that will display the most recent data from a chosen source, and while the application is active, will update every so often given a chosen interval.

During the meeting we established the week's To Do list which included:

1. Re-structuring of Visualizer layout
2. WattDepot Monitor
3. Multi-source functionality to Visualizer
4. Subsource capability for Visualizer
5. WattDepot Browser

(I've also ranked them in to the most to least important)

During the meeting we also delegated on who's to do what. Since there were 2 major things to be done between the 3 of us, Kendyll would handle the re-structuring and multi-source capabilities, I would handle the Monitor page, and Bao would be the go-between.

The main focus of last week Tuesday's meeting was the Monitor, so we pretty much did a run down of how the Monitor is to be set-up. This included the layout and functionality. What I accomplished for this past week was revert the trunk to before the v1.0 Distribution. I added back in the main page so that the user can select between the Visualizer and Monitor. I've also added the Wicket UI components to the page and created an Ajax behavior that changes a label on the page to show the selected Source's update interval. Even though Bao was supposed to be the go-between and facilitate my and Kendyll's work, he showed some interest in working with the Monitor so we are going to work together in creating the page.

Earlier in the week Kendyll had moved around some components in the Visualizer page and it caused the time drop-downs to no longer work. But just recently he had corrected the error by reverting to an older version and re-arranging the layout. As of now, the trunk currently has a re-arranged Visualizer and skeleton working of the Monitor.