Tools we Use

Technical work

IDE

• Eclipse

• IntelliJ IDEA

• WSAD IDE

• JCreator

Text editor

• jEdit

• vi

XML / XSLT

• Stylus Studio

• XML Cooktop

• jEdit

• oXygen runs stand alone or inside of Eclipse

• XMLBuddy running inside of Eclipse

• XSLT from Command Line

CSS

• Mozilla Firefox with Web Developer Extension

• Accessibility Toolbar for Internet Explorer (Also allows CSS Editing/Preview and HTML Validation)

• TopStyle Lite

Online Validation Tools

• W3C CSS validation service

• W3C markup validation service

• WDG HTML Validator

• Feedvalidator.org

• Cynthia Says (accessibility)

• Bobby (accessibility)

• STG XML Validation Form

Database

• DbVisualizer

• Squirrel SQL

• DBDesigner 4

Documentation production

• BeanDoc

• Anakia

Profiling, Performance, and Threading

Visit the Yourkit page.

Visit the VisualGC page. 

• TDan

Source Code Management

• CVS

• Subversion

Build Tools

• Ant

• Maven

• Automated Deployment Scripts

Related work

Much of the work surrounding uPortal is not fully technical - documentation, communication, administration. This section is for tools for the meta-work that makes possible the technical work.

Writing

• Microsoft Word

• OpenOffice.org

Presenting

• Eric Meyer's S5

• Microsoft Powerpoint

• OpenOffice.org

Issue Tracking

• JIRA

• JA-SIG JIRA Instance

• How we use JIRA