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Developer Site CodeZoo Launches

Posted by Zonk on from the cup-of-coffee-for-you dept.

acomj writes "Developer resource site CodeZoo launched today. An archive of Java code pieces, which plans to do for Java what cpan did for Perl, according to an announcement from O'Reilly." From the announcement: "We're not focused on hosting developer projects, like SourceForge, nor on comprehensively listing all open source Java code. Instead, we've hand-selected a list of the components we think will be the easiest and best to use in your development projects -- whether you are an open source or commercial developer."

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  1. Could be an amazing time saver by Ars-Fartsica · · Score: 4, Insightful
    CPAN is one reason why many people stick with Perl...an amazing breadth of code that has great support for installation, etc.

    Yes there are some warts, not all of the code in CPAN is perfect, some of it might very well be broken...but on the whole the repository has high quality code.

    I would suspect every language/toolkit would want something like this.

  2. open source *or* commercial? by gmf · · Score: 2, Insightful
    whether you are an open source or commercial developer
    Since when is that mutually exclusive?
    1. Re:open source *or* commercial? by th1ckasabr1ck · · Score: 4, Insightful

      He said OR not XOR

  3. A change for the Better by omb · · Score: 3, Insightful
    This makes a huge ammount of sense; re-usable components cannot be too big.

    Attempts to find genuineuley free re-targetable components has, only because of SUN, been much harder in Java than, say Perl.

    Good luck.

  4. Documentation? by poopdeville · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wonder how much documentation/community support CodeZoo is going to get. The reason things like the CPAN and CTAN work as well as they do is because of the enormous contributions from places like comp.text.tex, the TUG, and comp.lang.perl.*

    There's enough code on the C?AN to make finding anything impossible without help.

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  5. A library censored by the librarians by popo · · Score: 2, Insightful


    It's the "Hand Picked" part of the description that's the problem.

    Who needs a library which is censored by the librarians. Isn't it better to have a library consisting of *all* available applets/applications and have the user community rate them for quality and ease of use? .... and doesn't that already exist?

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    1. Re:A library censored by the librarians by bit01 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Censorship can occur because of too much noise as well as too little information. A good librarian can improve the ratio.

      For example 90% of modern mass marketing is the suppression of free, useful speech. Just look at the typical informative (ha!) car or shampoo ad.

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  6. "Hand Picked" & problem? Your not serious. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well usually there are publishers, editors and other to review what goes in a library.

    Under your ideology you will never find what you are looking for because everyone is offering the same damned thing with their own creative touches, your better off writing the code from scratch then!

  7. Re:Bullshit. CPAN SUCKS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Right, because dependencies are unique to Perl.

    CPAN handles that automatically, otherwise you'd either not be using the module or installng dependencies by hand. It's no different from apt-get.

  8. Re:This is great....but..... by johannesg · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Once you've committed to a package based system it hurts to install non-packaged stuff

    That also neatly explains why those of us who have _not_ committed to a package based system do not want this...