| SourceKibitzer tracks open-source Java apps |
Jan. 25, 2007
When Sun recently started open sourcing Java under the GPL, the expectation was that Java could become an important open-source language. According to SourceKibitzer, a new website that tracks open-source projects written in Java, the language is well on its way.
SourceKibitzer is a group of Estonian-Russian-Swedish developers who together decided to create a knowledge base that adds transparency to open-source Java projects through analysis, benchmarking, and criticism. According to their estimates, there are already some 5,000 active Java open-source projects. At the site, the company has already checked into the Java projects of Apache, Codehaus, JBoss, and ObjectWeb and counts more than 500 projects.
The team collects and measures programming metrics from open-source Java projects all over the Web in order to get an idea about the quality of code, member activity, and development process and project size. The company limits itself to Java, as SourceKibitzer developers made their careers in this field and they realize its possibilities. What is more important, this strategy enables to provide very detailed analysis specific to the Java programming language and maintain the largest database of Java metrics.
To date, the site's database is said to contain over 2.5 millions of measurements, with more than 100,000 new items added each week. In all, SourceKibitzer claims to have measured 24 million of lines of code.
At the same time, SourceKibitzer will be using its database and metrics to create a set of services. "We are ready to help students with their theses and supply scientists with data for their researchers," said SourceKibitzer CEO Mark Kofman, in a statement. "If clients of open-source projects want to check the quality of developers' work, they are also welcome to turn to SourceKibitzer for a piece of advice." For now, these services are free.
For developers themselves, SourceKibitzer tries to provide an answer to the question, "Why are some programmers and some projects better than others?" Using the site's resources, programmers will be able to compare code quality, project size, and development speed.
To join the SourceKibitzer database, developers are asked to fill in the site's "Kibitz me" form. The company promises to measure your favorite project within one business day. After that, the Kibitzers will monitor and analyze the project without additional inquiries.
-- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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