Development Tools

Development Tools

You will find here some development tools to be able to easier contribute to XWiki project.

Java

The core technologies/programming language on which XWiki is based.

Eclipse

• URL: http://www.eclipse.org
• Description: Very well known and powerfull open source development platform most targeting JAVA development.
• OS: Windows / Mac OS X / Linux

IntelliJ IDEA

• URL: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/
• Description: Another development platform targeting mostly JAVA. Free for open source development.
• OS: Windows / Mac OS X / Linux

Atlassian JIRA issue tracker

The main issue tracking system used by all XWiki projects.

online

• URL: http://jira.xwiki.org

Jira client

• URL: http://almworks.com/jiraclient
• Description: Desktop client for Atlassian JIRA issue tracker. XWiki project has global Jira Client license that any can use to access XWiki project jira server : XWiki Jiraclient license
• Environment: Windows / Mac OS X / Linux

Subversion

The main version control system used for all XWiki projects sources.

Tortoise SVN

• URL: http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org
• Description: One of the best subversion client if not the best. Works as Windows Explorer extension.
• Environment: Windows only

Subversive

• URL: http://www.eclipse.org/subversive
• Description: Eclipse plugin to integrate subversion. Seems to become the new official Eclipse subversion provider.
• Environment: All Eclipse supported OS

Subclipse

• URL: http://subclipse.tigris.org
• Description: Eclipse plugin to integrate subversion
• Environment: All Eclipse supported OS

IntelliJ Idea integrated subversion client

• URL: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/
• Description: IntelliJ natively support subversion.
• Environment: All IntelliJ Idea supported OS

Subversion shell client

• URL: http://subversion.tigris.org
• Description: The official subversion client. Present in almost all Unix/Linux repositories distributions.
• Environment: Windows / Mac OS X / Linux

Maven

The main build system used by all XWiki projects.

M2Eclipse

• URL: http://m2eclipse.codehaus.org
• Description: Allow using Maven from the Eclipse IDE.
• Environment: All Eclipse supported OS

IntelliJ Idea integrated maven

• URL: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/
• Description: Since version 7, IntelliJ natively support maven.
• Environment: All IntelliJ Idea supported OS

Maven shell client

• URL: http://maven.apache.org
• Description: The official maven client. See Installing Maven for more.
• Environment: Windows / Mac OS X / Linux

Checkstyle

The system used by maven to automates the process of checking Java code for XWiki coding standard. Configuration file : checkstyle.xml.

XWiki Checkstyle maven plugin

• URL: Code Style
• Environment: Windows / Mac OS X / Linux

Eclipse-cs

• URL: http://eclipse-cs.sourceforge.net/
• Description: "With the Checkstyle Eclipse plug-in your code is constantly inspected for problems. Within the Eclipse workbench you are notified of problems via the Eclipse Problems View and source code annotations just as you would see with compiler errors or warnings."
• Environment: All Eclipse supported OS

Checkstyle official shell client

• URL: http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/
• Description: The official Checktyle client.
• Environment: Windows / Mac OS X / Linux

AspectJ

The tool used by XWiki mainly to keep deprecated methods/Class isolated from the "clean" code.

Ecipse AJDT plugin

• URL: http://www.eclipse.org/ajdt/
• Description: very useful to build/edit aspectJ files
• Environment: All Eclipse supported OS