Andrés Arribas ha scritto:
> Hi all,
> 
> My question is simple: is there any part of the geoserver  project a 
> newcomer with little experience in java might be able to contribute to? 

First off, read the developer guide:
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/developer/
and maybe also the old one:
http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/Developers+Guide

Maybe read some introductory material to Spring dependency injection
and Maven.

If you don't have a specific objective, I'd say, look around the the
issue tracker. This could be a decent starting point:
http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+GEOS+AND+fixVersion+%3D+%222.0.2%22+AND+resolution+%3D+Unresolved+ORDER+BY+due+ASC%2C+priority+DESC%2C+created+ASC

Pick an issue that seems like it could interest you. And then try to 
piece things together, understand how GeoServer classes work, run
GeoServer, using the Start.java, in the debugger  and step through
the code.

No doubt you'll start finding holes in the documentation, and at
that point you can start contributing back improvements javadocs
or to the developer guide, we can review and then commit.

Solving the first issue might take a while, but don't get frustrated,
GeoServer is big and takes time to pick it up. Docs improvement
will be appreciated and you're in the best position to notice
missing stuff that we just take for granted.

Cheers
Andrea

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Andrea Aime
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
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