AIMProviderForECF

Project Description:

Title

AIM Provider for ECF

Abstract

ECF allows messaging protocols to be plugged in as providers. ECF has supports a lot of messaging protocols, gtalk, msn, yahoo and so on. But AIM isn't currently supported. First this project choose to wrap an existing Java library (JOscar), because It is quick to finish in this way. It is possible to implement the AIM protocol in this project.

Detailed Description

"Client" here would refer to the contestants and students . "Server" here would refer to the person hosting the Judge .

• First of all the communication will be totally centralized on jabber servers. The basic idea is pretty simple: The person hosting the judge will add the clients to his/her list. The code submitted by the client will be run on the judge's machine. (The interface will be definitely attractive and easy to use).
• Stress will be laid on the Interface so that people can submit codes while chatting with the group at the same time. This would certainly increase interaction and enthusiasm.
• Group chat can be easily accomplished by existing API of ECF. Hence not much of time will be required to accomplish this task.
• Working on the Judge Engine will be the major part. The code retrieved will be compiled and executed first. Multiple languages will be supported.
• To start of with: C, C++ and Java codes can be submitted. To compile C/C++ codes: GCC(for Linux) or MinGW(for Windows) will be required. Java compilation will require JVM to be installed in the server machine.
• The server will also have an option to log all the information for every code submissions. This would enable the users to check their history of submissions and details. A rank list will be maintained in case if its a programming contest. MYSQL can be used (connected via JDBC) to accomplish this task.
• Emails will be sent to each client automatically after each code submission. The Email would include the source code, the result, Errors if any, Time of Execution, Memory taken etc.
• File download feature will also be added to help the clients during a programming session/match.