I can't answer your first question, but as to the WPI Camera Extension source code, it's on firstforge under the smartdashboard project. Here's the link.
http://firstforge.wpi.edu/sf/scm/do/...tdashboard/scm
You need to create an account on firstforge first, then you can just use Netbeans' built-in subversion client to download the repository. Go to the file menu in Netbeans >> Team >> Subversion >> Checkout. Then paste in "http://firstforge.wpi.edu/svn/repos/smart_dashboard" as the Repository URL, and your firstforge account info as username and password. Pick which branch you want (you're going to want both of them) and select your download location and then click finish.
The source code for the camera extension is in the "trunk" folder, inside another folder labelled "extensions." The source for the 2012 SmartDashboard is under "tags," "2012," and the beta source for the 2013 SmartDashboard is under "trunk," "smartdashboard." With a bit of extra work you can get a copy of the 2013 dashboard working fairly easily. If anybody wants to know how, PM, or reply, or something
