Difference between revisions of "JGridstart/Technologies"

Revision as of 15:37, 26 April 2011

Programming language: Java version 1.5 (versions<1.4 are hardly used anymore).
- will use 1.5 (mainly because of generics) (the 1.4-needy use retroweaver)
Building: Maven, ProGuard (to minimise the JAR file size)
Toolkit: Swing for portability and ease of use
- with Actions for a clean design,
- SwingWorker for background tasks (part of Java 1.6 and later),
- custom component for interaction with web browsers, inspired by browser launcher, desktop integration (see also here),
  - WinRegistry for accessing the Window registry
- xhtmlrenderer (aka flying saucer) for HTML user-interface components with iText for PDF export, and
- Apache Commons CLI for a getopt command-line interface
Cryptography: BouncyCastle
Logging: standard Java logging (java>=1.4)
API docs: Javadoc with APIviz for diagrams
Tests: JUnit for unit tests, with Abbot for GUI automation

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 * Programming language: [http://java.sun.com/javase/ Java] version 1.5 (versions<1.4 are [http://www.statowl.com/java.php hardly used] anymore).
-** will use 1.5 (mainly because of generics) and [http://retroweaver.sourceforge.net/ retroweaver] for downcompiling (pending)
+** will use 1.5 (mainly because of generics) (the 1.4-needy use [http://retroweaver.sourceforge.net/ retroweaver])
-* Building: [http://ant.apache.org/ Ant], [http://proguard.sourceforge.net/ ProGuard] (to minimise the JAR file size)
+* Building: [http://maven.apache.org/ Maven], [http://proguard.sourceforge.net/ ProGuard] (to minimise the JAR file size)
 * Toolkit: [http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/swing/ Swing] for portability and ease of use
 ** with [http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/misc/action.html Actions] for a clean design,