Development Tools

• Eclipse (IDE; cf. local HowTo docs)
• Ant (Apache's does-it-all tool for project builds, testing, deployment; cf. local Managing Software Lifecycle doc)
• MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench (tools collection for Java/J2EE development in Eclipse)
• jakarta-commons (Apache-Jakarta Java utilities; included in ist-jxde/lib)
• OxygenXML (XML editor)
• PMD (configurable Java code analysis)
• Checkstyle (configurable Java code analysis)

Code Management

• Jalopy (Java source-code formatter)
• Metrics (code metrics generation for Eclipse IDE)

Source Version Control

• CVS (cf. local Source Code Management doc)

Source-Code Analysis

(cf. Development Tools)

J2EE Application Development

• Struts (Apache-Jakarta Java application control layer; included in ist-jxde/lib)
• Struts-Console (Struts-based application management)
• Xdoclet (code generation; e.g., to generate EJB classes)
• JSP (Java Server Pages)
• JSF (Java Server Faces)
• Faces-Console (JSF-based application management)
• Sitemesh (page layout & decoration framework; included in ist-jxde/lib)

Miscellaneous Java Tools

A set of Java tools are collected in the IST-JXDE project tree, which Streek developers check out from CVS. These tools, as JAR files, are located in the ist-jxde/lib directory. Some of the tools included in this directory are listed elsewhere on this page; but not all tools in the directory are individually listed.

Database/Persistence

• EJBs (Enterprise Java Beans)
• JDBC (Java Data Base Connectivity; included in ist-jxde/lib)
• Hibernate (object/relational persistence service; included in ist-jxde/lib)

Web Services

• Axis (Apache implementation of SOAP)

XML Tools

• Castor (data binding framework; included in ist-jxde/lib)
• OxygenXML (XML editor)
• Xalan-J (XSLT processing; included in ist-jxde/lib)
• Xerces2-J (XML parser; included in ist-jxde/lib)

Deployment

• httpd (Apache's HTTP Web Server)
• JBoss (Application Server & EJB container)
• Tomcat (Java servlet container, deployable inside JBoss)
• Apache Ant (scripted deployment; cf. local Managing Software Lifecycle doc)

Testing

• JUnit (unit testing; included in ist-jxde/lib and as core Eclipse plug-in)
• JMeter (web application testing)

Issue/Bug Tracking

See Project Issue Tracking document.

• Ozibug (currently in use)
• JIRA (under consideration as successor to Ozibug)

Project Management/Documentation

• CruiseControl (continuous build process framework)
• Maven (project management)
• Apache Forrest (project site / documentation; cf. local Project Documentation Site doc)

Network Tools

• SSH (e.g., OpenSSH; or SSH Secure Shell for Windows, site-licensed for campus users.