[orion-dev] Contribution towards Orion and guidance for Gsoc.

[nalin chhibber <nalin.chhibber@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello World!

My name is Nalin (codeinjector) , a third year student of Computer Science & Engineering from MSIT/Indraprastha University New Delhi, India. I am very delighted to work for orion , have cloned the git repositories for server and client side modules and trying to play with the code to get more understanding of features of the overall product.

I would love to create an app store or portal for Orion plugins which is currently being managed with the git repository.I will try my 

best to keep the interface as much professional and as much dynamic as possible. I am also considering the overall layout of mozzila's addon's page , chrome's webstore and  google's play store
I feel confident in doing the job because I have decent knowledge of J2EE and web-services and have previously worked on a number of projects. Apart from this, I personally feel this to be little less as a GSOC project and would also love to work on the server side aspect of Eclipse-Orion. I read some articles and get to know that the core team is primarily focusing on client-side languages(HTML/CSS/JS) . I would like to give an entire new dimension by providing an option to compile JAVA servlets and run jsp pages within the orion server which would enable one to create basic web applications. I see a create "site" option at the top toolbar that allows the user to create basic websites on html with css/js support. I would love to work on this part because I myself have created an IDE for java (Codeasy) which is licensed under GNU GPL v3 .Codeasy can be downloaded from here and sourceforge.net/projects/codeasy. Since the server side compilation of java code is not yet supported nor been mentioned at the "ideas" page, I would like to know if its a potential project to be done for gsoc or shall I stick with the "apps portal for orion plugins".
To ensure my strong participation, I am also trying my hands on creating some basic plugin-support for orion. 

I would appreciate if I get further directions to proceed and get some entry level bugs to solve or jobs that might be helpful in better understanding of orion codebase .

Regards,
Nalin_C(codeinjector)
www.nalinchhibber.com