Expert: vijayan - 2/2/2009

Question
sir,
i m researh scholar pursuing phd. i m working on object-oriented software development. i m trying to maintain security of a software at early stage. now i need the data of a dummy project (design level class hierarchy).
i m trying to get such type of data for long time. but unable to get. to validate my work it is essential. could you help me. or to suggest how to get dummy data of any object oriented softare. (security perspective)  
kindly mail me. this will be a nice favor to a young researcher.

have a nice time.

shalini chandra

Answer
you could freely pick up this information for any open source project.
i presume that to really validate your work, you need a class hierarchy which is not too trivial.

one, which is widely used, well documented and freely available that comes to mind is The Adaptive Communication Environment (ACE). ACE was developed (by Douglas C. Schmidt) initially at the University of California, Irvine. Later at the Washington University in St. Louis and today at The Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) at Vanderbilt University. since it comes from an academic background, you would find that many of the developers would be quite glad to help you out in your reasearch.

check out thse pages:
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-overview.html
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-documentation.html
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html

wish you all the best and a successful completion of your research.

many other open source projects are available; for instance check out:
http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=C++