Developer Site CodeZoo Launches

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."

Comments

Could be an amazing time saver

[Ars-Fartsica]

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.

A change for the Better

[omb]

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.

Documentation?

[poopdeville]

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.

Re:open source *or* commercial?

[th1ckasabr1ck]

He said OR not XOR

Re:A library censored by the librarians

[bit01]

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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