IDE's and Frameworks

• http://download.eclipse.org/tools/pdt/downloads/release.php?release=R20080603 (Eclipse IDE for PHP)
  
• Zend Framework: Lightweight component library for PHP

API Packages

• http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.php PHP 5 Manual
• http://framework.zend.com/apidoc/core/ Zend Framework API

• JavaTools
• PerlTools
• CppTools
• [PHPTools]

IDE's and Frameworks

• http://www.eclipse.org Eclipse (DiscussEclipse)
• http://jdee.sunsite.dk/ JDEE: Java Development Environment for Emacs (DiscussJdee)

Development tools

• Apache Ant: A widely used tool for project building. (DiscussAnt)
• Apache Maven: A tool for project building and dependency management. Ant on steroids (but not compatible). (DiscussMaven)

API Packages

• http://xml.apache.org Apache XML: API's for XML parsing, XSL and FOP Transforms. (DiscussApacheXml)
• http://jakarta.apache.org/commons Apache Jakarta Common API's: Commons API project at Apache. (DiscussJakartaCommons)
• http://www.hibernate.org Hibernate: Object/relational persistence and query service. (DiscussHibernate)
• http://www.jdom.org JDOM: Library for accessing, manipulating, and outputting XML data from Java code. (DiscussJdom)
• http://logging.apache.org/log4j: The Java branch of the Apache logging project. (DiscussLogForj)
• http://lucene.apache.org Lucene: A software project and library for full-text searching. (DiscussLucene)
• http://alcme.oclc.org/oaicat/index.html OAICat: A library for implementing OAI/PMH data providers. (DiscussOaiCat)
• Spring Framework: Dependency injection framework, for assembling lightweight enterprise applications from loosely-coupled, testable components.  (DiscussSpringFramework)
• JavaServer Faces: Web user interface framework supporting component-based, MVC design. (DiscussJavaServerFaces)
• Facelets: JSF user interface definition technology, supporting page templating and composition of UI elements. (DiscussFacelets)
  

Servers and Engines

• http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat Tomcat Servlet Engine (DiscussTomcat)

JDOM is a somewhat controversial Java library for implementing XML operations. It's significantly easier to use than the DOM API, and we use it extensively at HUL OIS. But there's only a single implementation, and there seems to be little ongoing activity behind it. When JDOM 1.1 was released, the documentation for version 1.0 was simply deleted from the site; this made it a bit difficult to upgrade; fortunately, there weren't a lot of changes. It's open source but single-sourced; that is, it isn't defined in terms of an interface which others can implement.

There are multiple alternatives for Java libraries for implementing XML object models. DOM by itself is painful to use, though it has the advantage of being Sun-endorsed. JDOM works for us.

-- Gary McGath, 16-Sep-2008

IDE's and Frameworks

• http://www.emacswiki.org Emacs and http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/CPerlMode cperl-mode

API Packages

• http://search.cpan.org CPAN: Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

Servers and Engines

• http://perl.apache.org/ mod_perl
• http://www.masonhq.com/ HTML::Mason
• http://www.template-toolkit.org/ Template Toolkit