Software Development: Directory Structure

Directory Structure
Software development involves working with many files, and in this class we will not only do that, but also work on several different projects. Therefore it is imperative that you put together a decent directory (folder) structure in which to store various applications, projects, etc. Here are my strong recommendations:   Make a directory named  for everything associated to this class. Whatever you call this directory, I will refer to it as  below.   In, make a directory called. This is where you will install various applications such as Tomcat, Ant, and Eclipse. These will live in subdirectories of ; e.g., you might install Tomcat into

.   In  make a directory called. This is for examples that I put together for you to download and play with. Each example goes into its own directory.   In  make a directory called. This is for our initial round of projects (not OpenMRS). Have a subdirectory for each project. I'd suggest uninteresting but informative names like,  , etc.

  When it comes to working on OpenMRS, I'll have additional suggestions.   So while working on Project 1, your  directory might look like the following: comp342/ apps/ apache-tomcat-6.0.18/ LICENSE NOTICE ...           bin/ conf/ lib/ ...   examples/ petstore1/ petstore/ WEB-INF/ web.xml classes/ comp342/ InventoryBean.class Petstore.class web/ petstore.jsp src/ comp342/ InventoryBean.java Petstore.java projects/ project1/ currconv/ ...           src/ ...	workspace/ If you are using Windows or Mac OS X, you may choose to install some applications in default locations; e.g., maybe under Windows you installed Tomcat as a Windows service or under OS X you installed Eclipse in. In those cases, you would not have a corresponding directory under .