[ jEdit-users ] jEdit plugin for tests?

[Todd O'B. <tod...@ma...>]

A theoretical question.

I teach CS in a high school, and over the summer I'm looking to 
automate some things and create a framework where students can get more 
immediate feedback and have a lot more practice writing small snippets 
of code. What I'd like to do is be able to assign the writing of a 
method for homework, have them write it, click a button and have a web 
server somewhere insert their method in some code to make a whole 
class, compile it, run it against test cases, and give them feedback. 
That seems fairly doable fairly easily if I can figure out how plugins 
work to set everything up.

What I'd also like to be able to do is to use jEdit to have them do 
tests. In that case, I'd like to limit their ability to see anything 
else. Could I theoretically write a Test plugin that programmatically 
maximizes jEdit so that it takes the whole screen and would either 
prevent jEdit from being taken out of focus (ideal) or alternatively 
would report if some other program had gotten focus and stop the Test 
since it would appear the student was trying to access other data. 
(Obviously, I'd also have to be able to keep them from changing buffers 
during the test, but I'm guessing that's pretty straightforward.)

Not looking for a how-to on any of this yet, just a yes/no about 
whether a plugin could do it or if I'd have to write something else 
entirely.

Thanks,
Todd O'Bryan