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Java EE real world open source applications

What are good Java EE real world (not like learning projects like PetStore) open source applications? In particular I'm looking for examples of using ORM (JPA-Hibernate), Spring (IoC, transaction managment, security) in a real world environment ps a good example what I'm looking for - ASP.NET starter applications (for .net platform) ...

Cocoa Open source XML parser

I'm looking for an open source XML parser that is easy to integrate with my NSTableView and will handle large amounts of RSS feeds ...

Best place to find coding partners for open-source projects?

I find myself wanting to develop certain projects, but most of the time I lack motivation because I develop by myself. What I usually do is look for similar existing projects, and ask the developers if they like to collaborate, but it's rather hard. Is there a good place (a website maybe) to find people that are interested in the same ...

Is there a development framework for producing Kinetic Typography where the animations are set to music?

Kinetic Typography is animating text synchronized with either music or audio from movies. A great example is here. There are good tutorials that show you how create kinetic typography animations in Flash and Adobe After Affects, but I've used the Animoto service and it synchronizes motion of graphics with MP3s. There are algorithms th...

Need to build a news article based site - any open source solution I can tweak?

Hi guys - I have a freelance project where I have to build a news articles based website. Let me go over it a bit. The site is such that you have a super admin and you have writers - writers join the website by sending in an application along with a sample of their writing skills - if approved the admin approves them and an account is cr...

Open Source PHP script/lib/cms for creating sites a-la StackOverflow?

I want to create site a-la StackOverflow but for different needs (not for Questions at all) (for some crazzzy geo mapping project=) so I need CMS... I vant it to be looking like StackOverflow... So is there any Open Source PHP script/lib/cms for creating sites a-la StackOverflow? ...

Imposing strict and methodic Software Engineering to Open-Source projects

Preface: please don't flame against Software Engineering. This question is about applying software engineering in opensource projects, not about the effectiveness of software engineering in general. Opensource development is performed in parallel, as it involves large communities of globally distributed developers and a system of indep...

How to connect OpenBase DB using HSQL in JAVA

can any one show code/tutorial? i googled the most. ...

If I have a tool that uses open source software does that mean the entire tool is open source?

I have a software project that I would like to sell, it uses open source software (not a direct derivative of the open source software, but uses it for certain functionality). Does this require that the entire project now be open source? edit: The license of the open source software I use is LGPL edit2: The software I'm releasing will...

Open source "push" messaging

I'm looking for something open source that can "push" messages to connected clients based on their subscription, for example "User 1" might be subscribed to "feed1" and "feed3" and "User 2" might be subscribed to "feed2" and "feed3" etc. I've got something working using ejabberd but it requires that the server send a message individual...

Is there a good open source app for user profiles with custom fields, field grouping and good search?

I'm on a project to create a skills matrix for about 200 people and am hoping to not have to reinvent the wheel. Users will fill out and maintain their skill proficiencies using yes/no and radio or combo inputs. Skills are grouped by category (Technical, Web, Creative/Social). It needs to be easily searchable, and being relatively prett...

What are the bones of a Powerful CMS

where im working is a company to improve their own market CMS , if u were me and u had the opportunity to build ur own CMS ( revision of existing CMS ) what steps u would take ? as far as i know these things can be most important : template engine ( caching ability ) a php framework ( ZEND) a javascript Framework ( Jquery ) OOP co...

Is there an open-source c/c++ implementation of IEEE-754 operations?

Hi, I am looking for a reference implementation of IEEE-754 operations. Is there such a thing? ...

How do I distribute a (open-source) Vala project?

One of the only languages that compiles to a high level language such as C, Vala has interested me for quite a bit. I've been wanting to start a small project with it, but I've been wondering how I would distribute it. The fact is, that it compiles to C code (C99 I suppose). Can I distribute the C code instead of the Vala code? If I ...

Open-source Java projects to contribute to?

Possible Duplicates: What is an open source Java project I could contribute to? Open source projects that are easy to contribute (code) to? Hello, I'm a high school student currently taking a CS course and one of my semester projects is to contribute to an open-source project by way of patching bugs or something similar....

community upload/download site recommendations? (like StackOverflow, but for uploads & downloads instead of Q&A)

Our company wants to offer a "plugin gallery" or "app store" where users of our (packaged enterprise software) product can find, download, and share plugins to our product. I'm assuming we'll have to build our own site (although a "buy" solution would be welcome), so we're looking for inspiration. Who's done this right? My experience w...

What tool would you use to find security holes in Google Chrome

I wish to know from SO security experts and hackers what kind of tools would they use to find a security hole in Chrome's armor? And using what programming and testing techniques? I'm particularly interested in Open Source tools running on Linux. Google announced on the Chrome Web Browser blog that they will pay 500$US for each securi...

Advice for making a conference presentation

I participate in a couple of OSS projects and I really want to help out in marketing them, so I thought it'd be interesting and a valuable personal experience to make a presentation/talk on one or several developer conferences. What's a good structure for presenting a technical software framework/product? Any advice on what NOT to do? S...

which software projects have quality online documentation

I love the php.net site's documentation for the php language. Its my favourite documentation for any project i have come across. Its really easy to jump to functions and quickly understand how to use them (or navigate to a better alternative solution). US: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ UK: http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.print.p...

Do you know a user management project in Java?

I'm looking for a lightweight and easy to install user management system made in JAVA. It should use a free Database System (MySQL for example) and handle basic security after logging (access or not with error message). I'm not looking for anything fancy/flexible like SpringSecurity. Thank you! ...