There certainly are library catalogs available currently, their trustworthiness and discoverability is just somewhat questionable. Among those I turn to are:
http://www.java-tips.org/java-libraries/ http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Java/Class_Libraries/ Also there are the related problems of JAR hell, i.e. trying to figure out which library is missing, when the linker complains about a certain class not being found. For this thankfully we have JarHoo, although it recently turned into a commercial service: http://www.jarhoo.com/ It's my hope that the NetBeans plugin portal will eventually widen to include general purpose libraries. Unfortunately it is very limited these days, you can't see whether a library is commercial or not and unfortunately the whole site is very buggy. Perhaps NetBeans plugin developers should take a look at how seamless the Firefox plugin system works. If you never had to leave NetBeans, but could i.e. just browse and add to the palette from within, that would be awesome. /Casper On Sep 19, 11:57 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a quick comment on #206. Joe (I think) suggested that someone > should create a site that gave developers a way of finding Java > libraries and in some way assessing them. Whilst it is not > specifically focused on Java or libraries, and it only deals with open > source,http://www.ohloh.netis a community driven, searchable index > of projects. It gives you an idea of how healthy the project is in > terms of number of developers and recent activity. It keeps track of > the number of people who are using it and you can rate the projects > too. It also attempts to work out how much it would cost to develop > the project from scratch, which could be useful ammunition when trying > to convince someone not to "roll their own"! > > I've been using the site for a while and it's definitely getting > better as more developers contribute their experiences with projects. > Like any site of this kind, it needs to be the de-facto place where > people go for this information if it is ultimately going to succeed. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
