July 2013
Intermediate to advanced
213 pages
3h 20m
English
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Appendix A. Third-Party Tools
A wide variety of open source and commercial third-party tools and technologies are available to assist you with developing Java-based applications.
The sample set of resources listed here are both effective and popular. Remember to check the licensing agreements of the open source tools you are using for commercial environment restrictions.
Development, CM, and Test Tools
- Ant
Ant is an XML-based tool for building and deploying Java applications. It’s similar to the well-known Unix make utility.
- Continuum
Continuum is a continuous integration server that builds and tests code on a frequent, regular basis.
- CruiseControl
CruiseControl is a framework for a continuous build process. It includes a web interface to view build details and plug-ins for Ant, source control tools, and email notifications.
- Enterprise Architect
Enterprise Architect is a commercial Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool that provides forward and reverse Java code engineering with UML.
- FindBugs
FindBugs is a program that looks for bugs in Java code.
- Git
Git is an open source distributed version control system.
- Heatlamp
Heatlamp renders clean, information-rich, interactive diagrams from live Java code.
- Hudson
Hudson is an extensible continuous integration server.
- Jalopy
Jalopy is a source code formatter for Java that has plug-ins for Eclipse, jEdit, NetBeans, and other tools.
- JDocs
JDocs is a documentation repository that provides web access to Java API documentation of open source libraries. ...
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