Codehaus: New Projects

Soter

Sat, 03 May 2008 16:32:32 -0500

RBAC security framework.

AtomServer

Fri, 02 May 2008 18:55:49 -0500

AtomServer is a generic, transactionally correct Atom Store. It provides a reusable framework for implementing GData-style data services based on the Atom Publishing Protocol. The code is mature, and in Production, taking ~1M hits/day. There are 3 active developers. And several external parties have expressed an interest in using the code once it is open sourced.

Gldapo

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:09:48 -0500

Gldapo is an LDAP library for Groovy that brings the expressiveness of the Groovy language to LDAP programming.

Davos

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:10:05 -0500

The project targets the Reference Implementation of JSR235 – Service Data Objects. The current source code while mature enough to be included in shipped BEA products is not yet finished as a JSR reference implementation.

Links: – Current SDO specification – currently v2.1: http://osoa.org/display/Main/Service+Data+Objects+Specifications

– JSR 235 http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=235

cake

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:40:06 -0500

Various utilities/examples in relation to the upcoming jsr166y. initial code http://svn.codehaus.org/coconut/jsr166yops/trunk/

initial committer: me (username kasper)

Constellation

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:20:09 -0500

Geomatys is a french development society working on GIS Tools. Geomatys (http://www.geomatys.fr) is an active contributor of GeoTools, which is already hosted on Codehaus. Constellation is a Java Project based on GeoTools, the original project is SeaGIS (http://seagis.sourceforge.net), SeaGIS is a database schema for raster data created by Martin Desruisseaux, Constellation will go further with raster processing and rendering, vector rendering and greater analyses capabilities.

Currently there are 3 commiters : – Martin Desruisseaux : Geomatys developer, commiter on GeoTools – Cédric Briançon : Geomaty developer, contributor on GeoTools – Guilhem Legal: Geomatys developer

Duck Hawk

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:18:08 -0500

Duckhawk is there to help developers handle one crucial aspect in the long time evolution of a java library/application: performance.

Nowadays we have free tools to handle features and bugs, packaging, documentation and the like, all integrated in the continuous build process of an application. The topic of performance is not as well covered. This is understandable, whatever the application does must first be correct and accessible.

Tools like junitperf can be used to harness the familiar junit approach to set hard performance requirements, such as “operation x must not take more than y seconds” or “response time must not exceed z when the application is under load by n concurrent users”. Yet this approach fails to satisfy the needs of most open source projects, as well as some commercial ones:

hard requirements are test host dependent (change the hardware where the test is run, you’ll have to adapt all all of the limits used as performance checks)

an open source project has no hard performance requirements to meet

hard requirements satisfaction does not tell anything about the actual performance evolution, developers won’t get notified that performance dropped 2 times if the hard requirement is still satisfied

On the other side of the spectrum we have utilities like JMeter, allowing a user to setup a multithreaded load test, run the tests and graph the results. Whilst this is possible, test setup is tedious, there is no build time automation, and programmatic control is hard.

MapFaces

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:27:51 -0500

Geomatys is a french development society working on GIS Tools. Geomatys (http://www.geomatys.fr) currently works on GeoTools and GeoServer. MapFaces is a JSF framework tighdly coupling Javascript User Interface with advanced java geospatial funcionnality. MapFaces is based on OGC spécifications like WMC, OWS, SLD, Filter Encoding to ensure interoperability, and follow MVC rules to give developers a clear architecture

Currently there are 3 commiters : – Mehdi Sidhoum : Geomatys developer – Johann Sorel : Geomatys developer, Commiter on GeoTools and Puzzle -Olivier Terral : Geomatys developer, PSC member on Mapbuilder

Minglyn

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:20:59 -0500

This project is an eclipse plugin to connect to the Mingle Project Management tool. Mingle is a project collaboration and management tool for Agile software development.

Mingle exposes a rest API that lets programs query mingle in a variety of ways.

Intended audience: This connector would be used by Eclipse users (or eclipse based products like Rational/BEA etc.) who use mingle as their project management tools.

Maturity: Beta, in a working state, test-driven and has been evolving in ThoughtWorks over a period of about 4 months.

Dependencies:

Eclipse (http://eclipse.org)
Mylyn (http://eclipse.org/mylyn)

TODO:

Editing of tasks in eclipse.
Task visualization.
Upload/Download attachments associated with tasks.
Upload/Download mylyn context which can be shared with fellow team members.

More info on Mylyn (From the mylyn http://eclipse.org/mylyn home page): Mylyn is a Task-Focused Interface for Eclipse that reduces information overload and makes multi-tasking easy. It does so by integrating with issue tracking systems. Once your tasks are integrated, Mylyn monitors your work activity to identify information relevant to the task-at-hand, and uses this task context to focus the Eclipse UI on the interesting information, hide the uninteresting, and automatically find what’s related. This puts the information you need to get work done at your fingertips and improves productivity by reducing searching, scrolling, and navigation. By making task context explicit Mylyn also facilitates multitasking, planning, reusing past efforts, and sharing expertise.

JSecurity

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:04:04 -0500

Our Mission Statement and Project History: http://www.jsecurity.org/about

Number of committers: 5

Maturity of Project: over 4 years old, up to a 0.9 release (approaching 1.0 soon), much traction in the last 12 months especially.

External party use: numerous smaller commercial applications created by our userbase.

Open Source: Grails JSecurity Plugin, maybe Grails new website.

Jackson JSON Processor

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:46:03 -0500

Jackson is a high-performance streaming JSON parser/generator, nearing its “official” 1.0 release. Its API is similar to Stax API used for efficient xml processing on Java platform.

Current home page is at http://www.cowtowncoder.com/hatchery/jackson/index.html.

OAuth for Spring Security

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:33:52 -0500

Spring Security support for OAuth.

openXMA

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:13:21 -0600

openXMA is a framework and a set of development tools (Eclipse plug-ins) for implementing Java thin, rich client applications.

Basically, openXMA programs are web applications where client side Java code, based on SWT, will be downloaded and executed automatically.

So look-and-feel like typical OS native rich clients is provided. Client code is cached locally, client and server halfs are communicating highly optimized via http.

Please have a look to the project site http://openxma.codehaus.org/ to get more information.

Gradle

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:02:40 -0600

Gradle is a build system written in Groovy. It uses Groovy also as the language for its build scripts. It has powerful multi-project build support. It has a layer on top of Ivy that provides a build-by-convention integration for Ivy. It gives you always the choice between the flexibility of Ant and the convenience of a build-by-convention behavior.

Puzzle GIS

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:59:30 -0600

The main goal of Puzzle GIS is to create a free, multiplatform (Java based), production ready and competitive tool as a valid alternative to commercial software.

Puzzle GIS is the evolution of AlterSIG project, initially created by Johann Sorel, based on NetBeans platform and GeoTools projects.

– AlterSIG web page: http://altersig.developpez.com/index.php?page=p_altersig.php

– NetBeans interview: http://www.netbeans.org/community/articles/interviews/johann-sorel-altersig.html

Members of the Puzzle project are: – Johann Sorel, AlterSIG Project and also developer on the GeoTools project (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Home)

– Antonio Santiago, from The Balloon Project (http://theballoonproject.blogspot.com) a virtual globe and probably another future open source project.

– Theuns Heydenrych, software developer from Saab Systems South Africa.

Currently there are other member pending to attach:

– Steve Kruger and Martin Schmitz, from Atlas-Viewer project and,

– Hans Schoebach, senior software architect from Galdos Systems Inc. software. If you wish some user recommandations, please ask us and we’ll contact members of the GeoTools projects to push the request.

IzPack

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:41:54 -0600

IzPack is a Java-based cross-platform installer generator.

This is the project development homepage.

The public website is available from http://izpack.org/

Benji

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:21:41 -0600

Benchmark Java Interfaces, a simple benchmark framework for Java.

Remark: It is a spin off from XStream, where it was added by Joe last year. At XStream it is specialized on benchmarking XML/Java serialization only, I have currently enhanced it for general usage. Joe has approved the move.

Committers are the active XStream committers: myself (joehni) Joe Walnes (joe) Mauro Talevi (mauro) Guilherme Silveira (gas)

Currently used by XStream … obviously ;-)

Labs NG

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:45:02 -0600

The next generation of JBoss Labs. Our aim is to create home for projects at jboss.org that is easy maintainable and user-friendly.

Sonar

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:45:36 -0600

Sonar is an enterprise quality control tool, distributed under the terms of the GNU LGPL. Its basic purpose is to join existing continuous integration tools to place Java development projects under quality control.

JtestR

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:00:57 -0600

JtestR is a tool that will make it easier to test Java code with state of the art Ruby tools. The main project is a collection of Ruby libraries bundled together with JRuby integration so that running tests is totally painless to set up. The project also includes a background server so that the startup cost of JRuby can be avoided. Examples of Ruby libraries included are RSpec, dust, Test/Unit, mocha and ActiveSupport.

The vision of the project is to be the testing tool of choice for Java projects, offering nice Ant, Maven and buildr integration. It will also support integration testing with common Ruby libraries like Ruby/LDAP and ActiveRecord, while still providing access to Java libraries and helpers.

The current implementation is still very young, and used only for testing itself. The aim is to release the first version within a few days from now, and gather reactions to steer the direction of the next release.