DWB Developer Guide

Developers are invited to use the source code of the DWB to set up their own software applications, e. g. for domain-specific purposes. They might also use the DWB code repositories to archive their code.

First, we recommend to study the DWB terminology and programming philosophy in several steps:

• Have a look on the ER models published under http://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/Information_models

• Install 3-4 of the databases and rich clients on your desktop or MS Server engine, e. g. DiversityAgents, DiversityProjects, DiversityCollection and DiversityDescriptions. You need e. g., MS Windows 7 (with .Net already included), 2012 SQL Server Developer and Visual Studio Professional 2013. If you work on a university the licences costs you around 100 Euro.

• Contact the SNSB IT Center to get an account for a DWB training environment with test data.

• Participate in a DWB Workshop http://www.snsb.info/Workshops.html (currently only in German).

• Access the SVN code repository under http://svn.snsb.info/repos/DiversityWorkbench/trunk/ and download , e. g., the directories "DiversityWorkbench" and "DiversityAgents" as template for the programming.

• Stay in contact with the DWB editors, co-workers and software developers http://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/Diversity_Workbench_Co-workers tpo learn more about the DWB philosophy, terms, name space and conventions