• Development Setup
  • Infrastructure
  • Communication
  • Tools
  • Utilities
  • Application Framework
  • Documentation
    • Spell Checking
  • Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policies
  • Links

Development Setup

This document lists the things that we often need before we start development.

Infrastructure

• Workstations
• Network
• File Servers
• Application Servers
  • http://www.jboss.org/
  • JOnAS
• Database Servers
  • PostgreSQL - http://www.postgresql.org/ (Much better than MySQL and truly open - just a horrible name!)
  • MySQL - http://www.mysql.com/
  • Hypersonic

Communication

How to communicate within the team and externally to client, suppliers etc. It's all about information dissemination.

• Collaboration - Simple web-site
  • http://twiki.org/ or http://www.foswiki.org/ (fork of TWiki)
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/
  • http://sourceforge.net/projects/egroupware/
• Email - Setup project mailing list
  • http://www.sendmail.org/
  • http://www.postfix.org/
  • http://www.exim.org/
  • http://www.squirrelmail.org/
  • http://www.claws-mail.org/
  • http://www.washington.edu/imap/
  • http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/
• Bulletin Board Forum
  • http://fud.prohost.org/
  • http://www.phpbb.com/
• Internet access

Tools

Tools to be considered:

• Project planning
  • http://www.taskjuggler.org/ (Linux only)
  • http://mrproject.codefactory.se/ (Linux only)
  • http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/ (Java - Currently no concept of schedule/calendar/working days)
  • http://www.jxproject.com/ (Looks like most feature rich tool, but is openly Ad-ware, does not appear to by spy-ware - Possibly software releases expire!)
  • http://www.gnu.org/software/toutdoux/en/index.html
  • http://www.phpcollab.com/
  • http://www.xplanner.org/
  • http://outreach.sourceforge.net/
• Design tools
  • UML
    • Umbrello UML Modeller (Linux - Very Good)
    • Argo UML (No sequence diagrams, version 0.16.1)
    • Poseidon (Free community version)
    • http://www.magicdraw.com (very basic community edition)
  • DB Schema
• Diagram Tools
  • Dia
  • https://draw.io/
  • Mermaid
• Version control
  • http://git-scm.com/
  • http://www.subversion.tigris.org/
  • http://www.cvshome.org/
• Documentation
  • DocBook
• Editors
  • Code
    • http://www.eclipse.org/
    • http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/emacs.html
  • HTML
  • XML
  • Text (Windows: notepad++)
  • Documentation
• Deployment
  • ejb
    • XDoclet - http://xdoclet.sourceforge.net/
    • ejbgen - http://www.beust.com/cedric/ejbgen/
    • EJX - http://www.dreambean.com/ejx.html (link currently broken - may be part of jboss download)
  • Windows installer - Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS)
  • One-JAR
• Code Coverage
  • Cobertura
• Regression testing
  • http://selenium.openqa.org/
• Unit testing
  • http://www.junit.org/index.htm
  • http://www.easymock.org/
  • DbUnit
• Load testing
  • http://www.pylot.org/
  • http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/index.html
  • http://grinder.sourceforge.net/
• Lint like tools for code analysis
• Coding standards conformance
  • http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/
  • http://pmd.sf.net/
  • http://www.teaminabox.co.uk/downloads/metrics/
• Code beautifier
  • http://sourceforge.net/projects/jalopy/
  • http://www.jindent.com/
• Make utility
  • http://maven.apache.org/ - See also MavenTips
    • http://archiva.apache.org/
  • http://ant.apache.org/
    • http://ant.apache.org/ivy/
• Compiler
• De-compiler
  • http://decafe.hypermart.net/
• Bug tracking
  • http://sourceforge.net/phpbt/
  • http://www.bugzilla.org/
• Ftp Server
  • http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/
• Graphics
  • http://www.gimp.org/
  • http://www.inkscape.org/

Utilities

• IEs4Linux
  • Internet Explorer running under Linux
• Password generation
  • APG and WAPG http://www.adel.nursat.kz/apg/index.shtml
• GNU Utilities for Windows
  • http://www.cygwin.com/
  • http://www.mingw.org/

Application Framework

• http://www.springsource.org/
• http://www.hibernate.org/
• Framework
  • SiteMesh
  • http://tiles.apache.org/
  • jRelational Framework Implementation of Data Access Object pattern.
• Logging
  • http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/index.html
  • http://www.slf4j.org/
• Security
  • http://www.acegisecurity.org/
• Audit
• Configuration
• Currency
• Persistence
• Database
  • Toad
• LDAP
  • http://www.openldap.org/
• Error handling
• Internationalisation
  • Poedit
• Printing
• Reporting
  • http://sourceforge.net/projects/jasperreports/
• Property settings
• Control Layer
  • http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/index.html
• Patterns
  • http://www.hillside.net/patterns
  • http://java.sun.com/blueprints/corej2eepatterns/index.html
  • http://java.sun.com/blueprints/patterns/index.html
  • http://www.developer.com/design/article.php/1502691
  • http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/

Documentation

• CreatingDocuments
• SyntaxHighlighter
• A Software Design Specification Template
• OpenOffice
• WollMux OpenOffice Plugin

Spell Checking

• Hunspell – Can be run from command line on text files.
• SCOWL (And Friends)

Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policies

See Automattic's privacy policy and Automattic/legalmattic on GitHub for some documents you may be able to base your own policies and terms from, subject to the licensing conditions.

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