JGridstart/Technologies

• Programming language: Java version 1.5 (versions<1.4 are hardly used anymore).
  • will use 1.5 (mainly because of generics) and retroweaver for downcompiling (pending)
• Building: Ant, 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