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David Crow

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by davidcrow

I seem to be spending a lot of time identifying and configuring what I thought were project infrastructure pieces (source control, project tracking, help desk, etc.). We are starting to move from ColdFusion to a J2EE environment, and at the same time I thought we would upgrade our development environment. Here are a list of some of the tools that we have been looking at very closely.

  • Project Collaboration

    • Confluence is a great looking tool. It’s only $4,000, and it just looks fabulous.
    • Copper Project 2004
    • Basecamp
    • SnipSnap a J2EE wiki that looks like it would work well for project team collaboration
    • Vanilla is a great looking wiki implemented in REBOL
    • Instiki a great wiki-clone by David Heinemeier Hansson written in Ruby

  • Bug/Issue Tracking

    • JIRA integrates to Eclipse, same elegant interface as Confluence
    • Scarab is a little overkill but very useful. The UI can be customized using Velocity Templates.
    • FogBUGZ a great tool that now runs on LAMP

  • Source Control Management

    • Subversion looks like a great CVS replacement
    • CVS it’s the standard
    • David Wheeler has a great discussion about different SCM options including Subversion, CVS, GNU Arch and others.

  • Other Tools

    • MAVEN is a tool for generating project structure
    • ReadySET a great set of project templates for documentation
    • ANT
    • Log4J
    • JUnit
    • Hibernate
    • Eclipse IDE
    • WebHelpDesk – everybody calls for help at some point
    • Testing FAQs – more tools and information about all forms of testing

Posted on May 26, 2004 Filed Under: Articles

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