External Resources

• Books
• Articles
• Blogs
• Other links

Resources on the tools and framework used in the developing of DHIS 2 can be found on the framework and tools pages.

Information about Free and Open Source Software can be found on the Open Source page.

Books

Books on tools and frameworks

• Professional Java Tools for Extreme Programming: Ant, XDoclet, JUnit, Cactus, and Maven
• Guide to Java OSS Tools
• Java Open Source Programming: with XDoclet,JUnit,WebWork,Hibernate
• J2EE Entwicklung mit Open Source
• Building Commercial Quality Plugins
• Contributing to Eclipse

see also the pages for Frameworks and tools including Java, Eclipse, Hibernate, JUnit, Maven, Spring, Subversion and Webwork to find books relevant to one specific tool or framework.

Articles

• Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection

Blogs

• Colin's Blog (Spring related)
• [Matt Raible's Spring Live|http://www.jroller.org/page/raible?catname=/Spring Live]
• Techno Blog Dion (Java related)
• Hibernate.org weblog
• The BileBlog

Other links

• The Server Side
• Spring and JPOX (JDP)
• SOFIA
• Java Sun
• Chiba: Java implementation of the W3C XForms standard
• Dependency injection and Inversion of Control (IoC)

GUI Links

• Using SWT for data entry
• SWT Workbench for easy data binding
• Commercial ElegantJbeans

XML, Mozilla XUL for rich client app

• Java implementation of the W3C XForms standard (next generation of forms for the Web)
• Mozilla Xforms project
• Comment on XUL as plattform
• Comment on XForms and Mozilla as plattform
• Native lightweight XML database featuring efficient, index-based XQuery, completely written in Java
• What of MS InfoPath and XPath?