JavaForge

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JavaForge
Type of site
free open source project hosting site
Owner Intland Software
Created by Intland Software
Website www.javaforge.com
Alexa rankIncrease Negative.svg 692,829 (April 2014) [1]
CommercialYes
Registrationoptional
LaunchedSeptember 2005
Current statusInactive

JavaForge.com was a non-profit and free open source software development community with a hosting portal for open source projects. It hosted software development services such as Project related web hosting, document management, wiki, forum, online chat, issue tracking integrated with optional Git, Mercurial or Subversion revision control.

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Wiki type of website that visitors can edit

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Contents

The technology behind JavaForge was codeBeamer, an Application Lifecycle Management platform with integrated Requirements management, Demand Management, Development & Project Management, QA-Test Management and IT Operations (DevOps) modules. At its height, JavaForge [2] hosted more than 88,000 users. [3]

Requirements management is the process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements and then controlling change and communicating to relevant stakeholders. It is a continuous process throughout a project. A requirement is a capability to which a project outcome should conform.

DevOps is a set of software development practices that combines software development (Dev) and information technology operations (Ops) to shorten the systems development life cycle while delivering features, fixes, and updates frequently in close alignment with business objectives.

History

JavaForge was launched by JavaLobby in September 2005 as the first Java based and Subversion supported free collaboration platform for the open source world. In May 2009, Intland Software, the developer of the software behind JavaForge, took over the operation from JavaLobby and migrated the system to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud platform. JavaForge can be accessed via the web or out of some IDEs. It also provides IDE plugins for Eclipse, Mylyn and NetBeans. In October 2015, Intland announced it was closing JavaForge as of 31 March 2016. [4]

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) forms a central part of Amazon.com's cloud-computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), by allowing users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications. EC2 encourages scalable deployment of applications by providing a web service through which a user can boot an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to configure a virtual machine, which Amazon calls an "instance", containing any software desired. A user can create, launch, and terminate server-instances as needed, paying by the second for active servers – hence the term "elastic". EC2 provides users with control over the geographical location of instances that allows for latency optimization and high levels of redundancy.

Eclipse (software) Java software development environment

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Mylyn is a subsystem of Eclipse for task management.

See also

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GForge

GForge is a commercial fork of the web-based project management and collaboration software originally created under the GPL for SourceForge, called Savane. GForge is currently a product managed by the GForge Group, Inc and provides project hosting, version control, code reviews, ticketing, release management, continuous integration and messaging.

SourceForge Web-based source code repository

SourceForge is a web-based service that offers software developers a centralized online location to control and manage free and open-source software projects. It provides a source code repository, bug tracking, mirroring of downloads for load balancing, a wiki for documentation, developer and user mailing lists, user-support forums, user-written reviews and ratings, a news bulletin, micro-blog for publishing project updates, and other features.

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References

  1. ↑ "Javaforge.com Site Info". Alexa Internet . Retrieved 2014-04-01.
  2. ↑ JavaForge
  3. ↑ "Breakthrough of Javaforge". Archived from the original on 2012-06-17. Retrieved 2014-01-03.
  4. ↑ JavaForge shutting down
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