[Jactr-developer] General information and updates

[Anthony H. <an...@pi...>]

Hola, all.
  I would greatly appreciate it if everyone working on *any* aspect of 
jACT-R (/PM, IDE, ACT-R/S) would subscribe to the developer mailing 
list. Now that there is actually more than one person, coordination and 
effective communication are fairly important.

   Now for some updates. To better support multiple users, I've begun a 
fairly lengthy process of package, class, and interface 
reorganizations. The biggest of these being the introduction of the 
RealityInterface classes (doc/RealityInterface.doc for a description). 
This is now the backbone of the perceptual & manual interfaces. Both of 
these systems have been reimplemented, and partially tested. Hopefully 
I will get a chance to test them fully soon.
   Next up, I've been gradually going through the high-level interfaces 
trying to document them in a somewhat intelligent manner and removing 
unnecessary methods and fields.
   Thank god for Eclipse's dynamic compiling. It's enabled me to make 
the necessary corrections throughout the entire source tree.
   It is unlikely that there will be any major API changes from here on 
out. Maybe a method here or there, but the major changes have happened. 
If anything else changes, or someone things something should be changed 
- jactr-developer is the venue for it.

  In support of this, the build.xml (for ant) has a build task to 
generate the javadocs. It will create a tree of javadocs under 
{jACT-R}/javadoc. One for the core interfaces, one for the current gui, 
one for the reality interface (since it requires so much explaining) 
and one for the default implementations of everything.

   If, as you are looking through some of the code, you come across 
something that I have not documented particularly well (which is 
likely) - bounce me a line and I'll explain it to you and then cut and 
paste my answer into the javadocs.

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    Anthony M. Harrison
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    Learning Research & Development Center
    University of Pittsburgh

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