open-source

Where to look for open source Java libraries?

I am looking for a Java library to incorporate into a demo web app and have looked on github, Google Code and sourceforge. So far, sourceforge seems to have the biggest selection. Are there any other places to look, or is sourceforge going to be my best bet? ...

Can I use upx packer to compress a commercial program?

Can I use upx packer to compress a commercial program? Or does GPL restrict me from doing that? ...

About the 3D UI engine in open-source

There are many 3D UI engines in SourceForge and other opensource forum, I would like know which is best one you used? Support D3D in Windows Provide UI Builder tool Support Auto Layout Easy to do localization thanks. ...

Open Source Web Frameworks : Security

How secure are popular open source web frameworks? I am particularly interested in popular frameworks like Rails and DJango. If I am building a site which is going to do heavy e-commerce, is it Ok to use frameworks like DJango and Satchmo? Is security compromised because their open architecture ? I know being OS does not mean being...

Good Zend Framework example apps to learn from

Hi! Do you know of any open-source Zend Framework applications besides Magento that show in a good OOP-way how to develop big apps with Zend Framework? My problem right now is, that I'm pretty good at PHP and OOP, but I don't have enough knowledge of the Zend Framework and how things should be solved in it. So do you know any good app...

From a GPL standpoint, is it still open-source if no one knows about it?

If you use Ext JS you are required to either open source your app or pay for a commercial license. So I was wondering, if I open source my app, can I claim it's open source even if I'm not hosting the code on a public open source repository? I want to meet the requirements of Ext's Dual Licensing because I can't afford to pay for a comme...

Open source physics engines

I have been using the Open Dynamics Engine (ODE) for the last few weeks with great success. It has a very simple API and its simulations at least look realistic. (I sometimes wonder about my collision joint parameters, but whatever.) My only complaint is that it is sometimes a dog. If I naively simulate 1000s of interacting bodies, then...

Open-source US- state status display

I was wondering if anyone knew of an Open-source project for displaying numbers for the US states. Specifically, you always see these graphics with California in dark grey, Montana in green, etc. Based on some sort of criteria. I'm thinking of building one for a site I maintain, but I was hoping I might not have to reinvent the wheel....

Is it possible to deploy Coldfusion code on Google App Engine for Java?

Since ColdFusion is itself Java-based, I would imagine it's not too much of a stretch to suggest that CFML code could be deployed on Google App Engine. Blue Dragon is a commercial solution for deploying CFML code on Java servers. Are there any open source alternatives that could be used for App Engine? ...

Are projects like Cofundos useful to push open-source programming?

Cofundos is a project where you can pay for tasks to be completed in open-source programs. If a developer solves this task, he will earn the money. Is this a good way to push open-source software? ...

What are some Open Source Java projects with good, fine-grained unit test coverage?

I'm working on a Java decompiler with correctness(*) as a primary design goal. To test it, I'm looking for some Java Open Source projects with fine-grained unit test coverage. These projects can be large or small, but test should exist which cover individual classes or methods. I plan to compile these projects with various compilers/s...

.Net based open source social web site?

Hello everyone, I am building a web site like Facebook. Not a competitor of a Facebook, just a mid-sized internal school alumni web site. :-) Features I like is, each grade/class could organize itself as a group and have group administrator, each person belongs to one grade/class group, and there is a whole system administrator to mana...

Read/Write Tiffs in Java

Any ideas for open-source libraries, with Apache or similar license, for reading and writing TIFF files in Java 5 (Preferably with the AWT image-processing libraries, including ImageIO.) I'm aware that Java 6 is supposed to support TIFF. I know about Sun's JAI implementation, but that license doesn't work for the company I work at;...

Open Source .NET Desktop UI Frameworks

Are there any open source frameworks to help build a .NET GUI? I would also be fine with free frameworks. ...

Is there a way to run OpenBravo on AppEngine?

OpenBravo is an open source ERP system, is it possible to run it on Google's Java AppEngine ...

Where does glibc get its database of unicode attributes?

Where does glibc get its database of unicode attributes, for such functions as eg, wcwidth()? I'm interested in correcting a few errant entries, but I can't seem to find where this information is in its source distribution. If it matters, I'm primarily interested in this under debian or ubuntu linux. ...

Best search engine for research organisation's website

We are a government funded research organisation providing HPC facilities. The website has a lot of information and we would like to make it available through a search engine. Can you recommend an open source, preferably Java or Python based project, that provides fast and deep search results. Thanks ...

What's wrong with this gmail contact importer script for Drupal?

Drupal has a gmail contact importer module that's been oh-so-close to working for about 7 months now. I don't have the chops to debug the problem, the maintainer vanished, and I think this is an important piece to have working. So I turn to StackOverflow for help. The Problem: When you fill in your credentials and tell the script to b...

What is the project(s) that branched asp.mvc?

I remember reading a blog post about a group that had taken a branch of asp.mvc. They intend to use it as a base and fix a number of issues while adding features. Now I can’t seem to work out the magical combination of google keywords to find it. Does anyone know what this project is called? ...

Should we go open-source?

Recently, we've release first stable version of our API access for developers(main features of main product). Our API now has about 4 features with their own signatures, response types and so on. To increase its popularity we want to release Wrapper Class for this functions in the most popular programming languages. So now we have to ...