Technologies

We are happy to reuse as much as we can from high-quality existing open source software projects. Find below a listing of the technologies we use:

Development

• ​YourKit Java profiler - for profiling our apps with a full-featured intelligent Java Profiler. YourKit, LLC supports our open source project

• ​IntelliJ IDEA - for writing Java code. Jetbrains supports our open source project

• ​WebStorm - for writing JavaScript code. Jetbrains supports our open source project

• ​myBalsamiq - for rapid wireframing. Balsamiq, LLC supports our open source project

Middleware

• ​Maven - to organize, compile and build modules

• ​Spring framework - to assemble modules at runtime

• ​Spring MVC framework - to assemble modules at runtime

• ​Spring framework - to create web service 'controllers'

• ​Freemarker template language - for server-side layout

• ​Various great Apache projects - for utilities such as commons, commons-io, logging

• ​Google guava - for utilities

Frontend

• ​Bootstrap - for responsible HTML layouts

• ​React - to create module user interface components

• ​jQuery - to ease javascript + DOM interaction

Backend

• ​PostGreSQL - our work-horse for simple database storage

• ​ElasticSearch - for smart indexing and search

• ​OWL api - for semantic data imports

• ​Open CSV - for reading tab/csv delimited files

• ​Apache POI - for reading Microsoft Excel files

Quality

• ​Github - for our code versioning, bug lists and code reviews

• ​Jenkins - our continuous integration build and automatic test server

• ​TestNG - for unit tests

• ​Selenium+Java - for user interface tests

• ​TRAC - for managing our scrum backlog