Application Developer's Toolbox

When developing application software for deployment in an environment supported by OIT, the tools listed on this page should be considered as the preferred development tools. There are, of course, instances where tools not listed here should be used. In these cases you should notify your supervisor or the OIT director responsible for the development effort before beginning work.

All new applications developed should be Web-based.

Language-Independent Tools

Development Environment

Databases

• • Microsoft SQLServer
  • MySQL

Operating Systems

• • Windows 7 - default desktop
  • Windows or Solaris - all central and shared server software
  • Other Operating Systems - by exception 

Editing Tools

• • Dreamweaver - HTML editor

Database Connectivity

• • SQuirreL SQL Client

User Authentication

• • WebAuth - A mechanism used to establish single sign-on for Web applications
  • LDAP - Kerberos Authentication
  • Kuali Identity Management (KIM) User-, Group-, and Role- based access control

User Authorization

• • SAMS - Security Access Maintenance System
  • LDAP - Light Weight Directory Service.

Project Management

• • Atlassian's JIRA for project, task, timesheet, and bug or issue tracking
  • Atlassian's Confluence for project documentation 

 Documentation

Process, Data, and Object Models

• • Visio
  • ERwin
  • Microsoft Project

Hierarchical, Organization, or Gantt Charts

• • Visio

Presentations

• • Microsoft PowerPoint

Documentation in HTML

• • Microsoft Word
  • Dreamweaver

Quality Assurance and Capacity Planning

Load Testing

• • jMeter - A tool for programmers

Version control

• Subversion

Browser Compatibility Testing

• • • WebTest Lab

Middleware

• • Message Queue - ActiveMQ
  • ServiceMix 4 - allows integration architects to exploit the value of messaging without writing code 

JAVA Development Tools

• Development Environment
  • Programming
    • Java, J2EE (JSP, Spring, Hibernate, JDBC)
    • XML and SOAP
    • Use HTML and JavaScript for GUI development
  • Web Server
    • Apache Web Server - a free web server from Apache Software Foundation
  • Application Server
    • Tomcat - a project under the direction of Apache Software Foundation. This works in conjunction with Apache Web server
  • Supported Operating Systems
    • Windows 7 - default desktop
    • Windows/ Solaris - all central and shared server software
    • Other Operating Systems - by exception

• Development Tools
  • Editing
    • jEdit - Multi-purpose editor for Java and JSP
    • Eclipse - Java editor
    • Dreamweaver - HTML editor
  • Database Connectivity
    • SQuirreL SQL Client

• Quality Assurance and Capacity Planning
  • Unit testing Java and JSP code
    • Parasoft JTest - a test tool that will run and examine your Java code
    • FindBugs
  • Load test
    • jMeter - A tool for programmers
  • Version control
    • Subversion
  • Quality Control
    • Copy/Paste Detector (CPD) - find duplicate code
    • PMD - scans Java source code and looks for potential problems 
• Reporting
  • Jasper Report - Business Intelligence, Reporting and ETL tool 

.NET 4.0 Development Tools 

Development Environment

Databases

• Microsoft SQLServer
• MySQL

Web Server

• Microsoft IIS

Application Server

• Microsoft IIS

Supported Operating Systems

• Windows 7 - default desktop
• Windows/ Solaris - all central and shared server software
• Other Operating Systems - by exception

Development Tools

• Editing
  • Microsoft Visual Studio, Textpad
  • Dreamweaver - HTML editor
• Database Connectivity
  • SQL native client that is part of the SQL server 

Quality Assurance and Capacity Planning

• Unit testing
  • NUnit
• Load test
  • .NET load testing
• Version control
  • Subversion, Microsoft's Team Foundation Server or Visual Source Safe

Reporting

• Crystal Reports Server

Middleware

• MSN Queue

For more information refer to the Project Development (for Technology Professionals) menu.