I believe some work over the maven repo indexes is the way to go. The maven plugin for netbeans already finds the library based on the unqualified name of the class. I believe the central repo index is about 10mb of gzip-compressed lucene index. That's a LOT of libraries right there
Regards Marcelo Morales On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 3:33 AM, David Linsin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's also SpringSource's Bundle Repository, which is a nice way to check > out dependencies to a library you are using: > > http://www.springsource.com/repository > > with kind regards, > > David Linsin > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > blog: http://dlinsin.blogspot.com > > > > On Sep 19, 2008, at 11:57 AM, [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.net is 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
