TechnologyChoices

Cheetah uses the following tools and technologies:

• Platonos for plugins and updating.
• WiredReach as foundation for peer-to-peer (see below).
• Peer-to-Peer Communication
• TWiki for Wiki (requiring these pages to be converted from Trac to Twiki)
• Maven for software project management and comprehension.
• Continuum for continuous integration and test-driven development]
• Subversion for version management of source code and some text files.
• WordPress for blogging through blog.aardrock.com.
• MailMan for mailing lists.
• MvnForum for fora and community dialogs.
• Spring framework for Java Server Pages (JSP).
• [1] MMbase] for content management when needed.
• Java 5 for all core software development, including J2ME, J2SE and J2EE as appropriate.

Cheetah will be tested on the following platforms:

• Windows 2000
• Windows XP (SP2)
• Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
• Linux

Cheetah will eventually be fully open source software (pending appropriate license) to foster the Innovation Happens Elsewhere principle.