About 2 weeks ago, myself and James were asked to write a small utility that would take progress messages produced by the RTD product and write them to the console output. The messages currently have no way of being viewed so a quick utility was required to do this.

Over the week we designed and wrote a utility to do this. We needed to take an odb database, extract the necessary information and print it out. We had never experienced working with JDO (Java Data Objects) so this was a great task and our first bit of proper Java coding. We completed the task after a bit of trouble figuring out how to connect and extract information from the database.

We tested the finished utility and ensured that no errors were produced during runtime. The utility we developed is being sent out to customers who require the fucntionality it provides. It was a good feeling and great experience to produce something (even just a small utility) that is actually being sent to customers!

I am hoping to write another post soon with some more information on JDO and how we completed the task.