First days in the Alcatel-Lucent Internship

Hello everybody, now I decided to write here about my internship journeys. I won’t be able to write all the details of my previous days but I’ll give you some summary. First of all, I normally write on my personal web site http://www.emrealadag.com in Turkish and I had my first internship as a Network intern in Tellcom, a telecommunication company and now I’m in Alcatel-Lucent, as a Software intern.

The first day, I was taking a look at the Eclipse and the J2EE plugins when they saw me that I’m using Linux and asked me to install one on their server which needed to be re-installed. Then I installed Fedora 9, but with a wrong preference: KDE4. It was a terrible experience. I could not do any kind of basic desktop operations. We could not install gnome on it either just because we didn’t know the package names required for it. Then I installed RHEL5 and installed/configured Oracle 10g Enterprise server, for a test purpose. After that, I installed and configured the VNC server. Both were to launch at startup. Then I wrote some documentation about it. You can reach them here: Oracle 10g on RHEL5 , VNC Server on RHEL5.

I worked on the pre and post configurations a lot. So I wanted to automatize this process. So I worked on a Python Script, pyorainstaller for two days. This script does all the pre-configruation like configuring kernel parameters, security levels, some prerequisite checking, etc. and post-configuration like hostname and launching at startup. You can download this program from its site.

I worked a lot on testing this site, as I did not have any testing machine at work so I had to test it on my desktop PC at home which meant I had to spent my nights with it. Then I was faced with JSF. They told me that I was going to develop two projects with JSF and gave me a book called Core JavaServer Faces 2nd edition. There were examples on glassfish but the examples did not work :) So they told me ’Nevermind, just use Tomcat.’ But there was nothing about Tomcat in the book. So I got crazy; because there was no short and smart tutorials for the first learners. Then I finished the day, looking over the web sites. Some collegues told some stuff about the JSF architecture but there were too many things to keep up in mind. I cought the general idea up.

Then at the weekend, I upgraded to Pardus 2008 on a clean system and on Tuesday, I worked on Tomcat+JSF to build a login form. I wanted to get the session information and used the core jsf libraries but they conflicted with the Tomcat’s catalina. I just was going to fix that but they told me to move on appfuse. As I was told, I am going to develop an HR system for the employment, managing the reviews about recent employee candidates.

Appfuse is an project-automator which gathers the tools required for you depending on your project-type. I now just created a new JSF Modular project and run the mvn command but it gave a strange error:

Embedded error: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/home/emre/dev/hr/web/src/test/resources/web-tests.xml:52: Wrong document title found!. Expected value ".*Login.*" but got "Error - Error calling action method of component with id passwordForm:execute | AppFuse"

I’m now trying to figure out what it is. I can’t do anything just because of these silly errors.