Incremental Ltd. - Open Source Projects

Open Source Projects

Incremental gratefully acknowledges the contribution that the following open source projects brought to the development of Epic.

Dom4J www.dom4j.org	XML parsing
Eclipse www.eclipse.org	The main technology of Epic: - the main development environment; - the framwork for the application - Epic is an RCP-based application - the basis for Epic's reporting functionality (Business Intelligence & Reporting Tools) Notes: - Eclipse is itself based on a lot of open source projects. - for RCP training see our technical services
Hibernate www.hibernate.org	Database access
HSQLDB www.hsqldb.org	Single user database.
Jakarta Commons jakarta.apache.org/commons	'Boilerplate' utilities - principally I/O.
Java Service Wrapper wrapper.tanukisoftware.org	Allows server component to run as a Windows service (or UNIX daemon process)
JFreeChart www.jfree.org/jfreechart	Project-level Gantt charts for marketing and project management overviews.
JTDS jtds.sourceforge.net	Microsoft SQLServer access.
JUnit JUnit www.junit.org	Unit testing - development and runtime.
MPXJ mpxj.sourceforge.net	Microsoft Project integration
NSIS nsis.sourceforge.net	Nullsoft Scriptable Install System - Windows installation tool.
POI jakarta.apache.org/poi	Microsoft Excel integration.
PostgreSQL www.postgresql.org	Multi-user database (open source alternative to one of the proprietary databases Epic supports).
XStream xstream.codehaus.org	Recording settings (XML object serialisation)

Note the Apache Avalon project was the basis for Epic's server-side framework but this project is now closed.

JUnit