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The Best OSS Tools by Category - 0.3 - (2002-11-22)

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By S V Ramu
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Post date: Nov 28, 2008 12:22:10 PM

The stared (*) tools are not completely open source, though free in some sense.

  • Browser : *Netscape 7.1, Mozilla 1.5
  • Document File Format : XHTML + CSS
  • Complete Office Package : OpenOffice.org 1.1
  • Programming IDE : jEdit 4.1, NetBeans 3.5.1, Eclipse 2.1.2
  • Compilers : J2SDK 1.4.2_02 (Java), GNU Compiler Collection - GCC (use MinGW)
  • Image File Format : PNG (static), MNG, *GIF (Animated)
  • Image Editor : GIMP 1.2.4 win32
  • Build Tool : Apache Ant 1.5.4, GNU Make (use MSys with MinGW)
  • UML Editor : BlueJ 1.3.0, ArgoUML 0.14
  • XML Parser Transformer : SAX, XSL
  • In Memory Cache : XML DOM
  • Database : XML, Interbase (firebird?), MySQL 4.0.16
  • E Books : Project Guttenberg [official] (ASCII Text), HTML Writers Guild (XML)
  • Utilities (Compression, Converters…) : MinGW 3.1.0, GnuWin32 utilities
  • Operating System : Linux
  • Application Server : JBoss 3.2.2
  • Compiler Compiler : JavaCC 3.2 (java.net)
  • Security Architecture : GNU Privacy Gaurd
  • Servlet Container : Apache Tomcat 4.1.29
  • Web Server : Apache HTTPD 2.0.48
  • Test Harness : JUnit 3.8.1
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