Open Source Products
- Following is a list of Open Source products used in the development of the Sales Management System and File Management System:
- Operating System:
a.RHEL 4.0 – a stable, reliable, secure, cost-effective and extremely powerful operating system, with excellent networking, multi-processing and multi-tasking facilities. - Database
a.PostgreSQL 8.3 – a sophisticated Object-Relational DBMS, supporting almost all SQL constructs, including sub-selects, transactions, and user-defined types and functions.
b.MySQL 5.0 - MySQL is the world's most popular open source database software. Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, business-critical systems and packaged software.
- Web Browser
a.Mozilla 2.0 – an open-source web browser and toolkit, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability.
b.Konqueror 3.5.8 – a HTML4.0 compliant web browser, with support for Java Script, native C++ bindings, Java Applets, Cascading Style Sheets, bi-directional scripts, and SSL.
- Web Server
a.Tomcat 6.0 – a commercial-quality flexible and stable server solution based on the Java Platform that supports the Servlet and JSP specifications, with enhanced manager application support for integration with development tools and added connectors for the IIS and Netscape web servers
- Application Server
a.JBoss-4.2.0.GA – a standards compliant, most downloaded Application Server implemented in 100% Pure Java based on the J2EE specification, with a built-in SQL database server.
- Documentation
a.Sun OpenOffice 2.3 – a multi-platform office productivity suite, which includes key desktop applications such as word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, drawing programs, and works with a variety of file formats.
- Tools
a.Eclipse 3.2 – an open extensible IDE, designed for creating applications as diverse as web sites, embedded Java programs, C++ programs, and Enterprise Java Beans.
b.NetBeans 6.0 – a modular IDE written in Java, used to develop code in Java, HTML, XML, JSP, C/C++ and other languages, with a huge variety of commercial and free extensions to support various technologies
c.Log4J 1.2.15 – popular logging package for Java, which allows the developer to control which log statements are output with arbitrary granularity, enables logging at runtime using external configuration files without modifying the application binary, reduces the volume of logged output and minimizes the cost of logging.
