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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. Fool me once by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Last time I clicked on a *zoo* link on Slashdot... well, let's just say I won't be clicking those links anymore! Freaked my wife out.

  2. Codehaus by kevin_conaway · · Score: 5, Informative

    Codehaus is a similar site with a lot of cool stuff.

  3. Not Just Java... by th1ckasabr1ck · · Score: 5, Informative
    From the article:

    CodeZoo is launching with a directory of Java components, and from there, we hope to move into other languages. Let us know where you think we should go next! (We've already gotten one request for Lisp...)

    Also:

    On every page, you'll find links to O'Reilly and Safari content to help you learn more about the components you want to use.

    Browsing around I don't see this, but it sounds like a pretty cool idea.

  4. Damn table of contents by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It only has 'J'!

  5. Hmm, I use both CPAN and Java by tezza · · Score: 5, Informative
    And this looks more like java-source.net. Java-source is a site I highly recommend. It helped me find JRat an excellent Java Profiler.

    Java's big attraction was that it came with 'CPAN', that is, the Java API. Java API has equivlants of Net::Socket, Net::SMTP, LWP and File::IO. These were big plusses back when it arrive circa 1995.

    What i don't see in this OReilly yet are Date::Calc, Text::Autoformat or such.

    See also: http://www.manageability.org/blog/opensource/view and
    http://www.johnmunsch.com/archives/2004_07.html#00 0975 (can't seem to get the darn '#' working in /.)

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  6. Re:Bullshit. CPAN SUCKS! by grantm · · Score: 5, Informative

    So let me get this right. Your 'corporate firewall' makes it difficult for you to access CPAN and this means "CPAN SUCKS" ?

    The first step in using CPAN from behind a firewall is to install the latest version of CPAN.pm. This might involve manually downloading the tarball and running 'make install', but it will be well worth that small effort.

    The next step depends on your preference. I'd recommend installing wget. It works nicely with 'corporate firewalls' and CPAN.pm works nicely with wget.

    Then you can use

    perl -MCPAN -e 'install Some::Module'
    and sit back and watch the dependecies resolve themselves - works for me :-)