JGridstart/Technologies
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- 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
