My boss has asked me to manage development for a Java project. I'm going to be working with two other programmers and one designer.
This is the first time that our organization has tried to formally coordinate several programmers on a project together, and it is also the first Java project we've done here (I'm the only programmer with extensive Java experience). I chose to use Wicket for this project because it seemed to be the most intuitive framework, and because I hope it will make it easy for the designer and programmers to work together without stepping on each others toes. At my previous job, we used CVS for managing code contribution and Ant for deployment. Is that still a good solution, or should I be looking at other tools? Also, how do you coordinate the designer's work with the programmers' work? My goal is to find a few tools that - work well with Wicket - make it easy for programmers to check code in and out - manage project dependencies - are easy to set up - are easy to use - are free I appreciate any and all suggestions. Thanks for your help!
