More DueDates!

Whats new?

So this weeks task was to add email and "wakeup" functionality to our project. If a user uses -email argument, the results of program is emailed to the given email address versus just printed in the terminal. This makes printing and referencing back to items remarkably easier. The "wakeup" function gives the user the ability to just have they system sleep for a certain amount of time, then "wakeup" and run the program. Now at frist, this sounds kind of useless or seem like spam messaging, but when paired with the -within arg, its actually a handy reminder tool. Invoking something like:

-email youremail@do.main mail.hawaii.edu -wakeup 1 -within 1

will run the system once a day and email you if you have something due the next day! The concept is cool and a lot more practicality to our system.

Implementation

Got our first taste of javamail! Easy to use after a couple of examples. I have had some previous experience with Sendmail so it wasn't that hard to grasp any of the concepts. Unfortunately, we did run into complications when it came to running it on the Eclipse IDE vs Terminal. After spending some time debugging and class discussions, we found that we had to import the mail.jar file into the actual Java IDE Directory. Everything was running as expected after that.

Within was handled by my partner, Arthur. The concept was basically a cronjob, so it was just manipulation and use of the Timer class. He finished this implementation fairly quickly with no real hassles.

What now?

The tasks given to us were fairly easy to get going; the only problems we really ran into were jar file complications. Aside from the class meeting together, we didn't meet make and effort to meet outside of class this week. Though, we did have daily messenger conversations to communicate our ideas to each other. It worked out well. In comparison to the previous upgrade implementation, I found it to be on the same level of difficulty. When taking a step back and reflecting on the project, I find it pretty cool on how we are slowing adding functionality to the system and ultimately make it what we want. This upcoming week, we will start to look at web apps and see how we can somehow integrate that into our system. Pretty exciting!