[Exist-development] Making eXist , a distributed database

[Abhinandan M K. (MT2010002) <abh...@ii...>]

 Hi ,
I am writing this mail on behalf of four other students.
Currently we are all studying MTech at IIITB.<http://www.iiitb.ac.in/>

We have taken up developing , "Distributed Database for eXist" as our academic project in the current semester(2nd semester) @IIITB.
We are naive to the notion of development by co-ordinating through sourceforge.
Can we use the source code which comes along with the exist installation to develop customizations for our project?Also, we need steps ,which tell us how to go about creating a development environment for ourselves on our individual workstations.
We also need access to the documentation ,if any,which has the explanation of the internal design/architecture of the eXist modules.This will greatly help us in expediting our development process.

Please let us know how to go about this process by providing some directions.
Hope we can contribute to the opensource world as you have done..!

Thanks and Seeking advise,
Abhinandan,
Janani,
Sneha,
Dhwanit,
Parvathy