OpenMRS GSoC 2008

Welcome everybody to my GSoC OpenMRS project Blog.

Really , my application was accepted and I am going to code this summer for the GSoC OpenMRS project . I am happy to work on this because the OpenMrs Api is done in Java which is my preferred programming language. Before I apply , I got information that there was a kind of software implemented by PIH that was going to be deployed in the clinics across my country . I found it was openMRS and I tried to make my application through GoSoc .When the results were announced on the Google Summer of Code web page, I was much happy to experience my first open Source project . During the contacts I made with my mentors , Maros and Christian ,I explained them what I was able to do with Java,I gave them a link to an applet in which I implemented an old African game “Igisoro” or “Omweso” at http://www.nzeyi.890m.com/nzeyiIgisoro.php . I was assigned to implement the OpenMRS Synchronization Admin UI . I felt the project was much challenging for me because synchronization was the newest feature in the system , so I have to read more on the former implementation.The main problem I faced was download the source code with Subversion because I was behind proxy settings inside the campus . I thought subversion doesn’t support proxy settings, so i also tried Subclipse and TornoiseSVN but the results were the same .Finally I downloaded the trunk code on an office computer where connection is through a DHCP server.The connection  was too slow so that it take me the hall night to get the openmrs/trunk code .I followed the installation instructions but there was a 404 error that my Tomcat couldn’t find openmrs while my deployment with ant was done successfully.That was an other major problem but I resolved it a little bit later using the ant commands ant -k clean and ant update .Until now , there is almost any other error with my installation. By the next step , I am going to read more about the code, I am reading the Javadoc of the core api and I need another about the Synchronization (if there is any) because I want to get more familiar with the original designs of the system.During the next 3 weeks I have sem 1 exams so I should be a little bit busy , but I will continue to plan for my project. Thanks !