Resources

Uncle Unc has benefitted greatly from use of the following software libraries and other resources. We are proud to be a part of the Free Software and Open Source community.

Software

dog.gui toolkit

dog is a lightweight java gui toolkit, offering some of the good looks and added functionality of swing, some features swing doesn't have (such as the list component used by Uncle Unc). It's compatible with java 1.1, is small, light and fast. Originally developed by Christopher Burdess a.k.a. dog, now looked after by us at Sunwheel Technologies. Latest release ships with Uncle Unc.

jython scripting language

Jython is a port of the python scripting language to java, allowing rapid prototyping and flexible scripting of any java object. Latest release at http://www.jython.org.

naked objects

The Naked Objects framework is a project similar in scope to Uncle Unc, aimed at automatically generating user interfaces from an object model. Has good support for persistence of objects, and a nice drag'n'drop gui, but requires objects to inherit from a specific base class. http://www.nakedobjects.org

jetty web server

Jetty is a small, powerful web server and application server, written in pure java. http://jetty.mortbay.org

jakarta ORO Regular Expressions

ORO is a Perl5-compatible regular expressions library compatible with older versions of java predating the bundled java.regexp of 1.4. http://jakarta.apache.org/oro

jakarta Ant Build System

Ant is the de facto build system for java these days. http://ant.apache.org

NanoXML XML Parser

NanoXML is a lightweight non-validating XML parser. Small enough to run on a J2ME device (I know, I've tried it!) http://nanoxml.sourceforge.net

Jini Network Technology

Jini is a 'self-organising' network technology developed by Sun that allows applications to assemble themselves from their components at runtime, discovering one another across a network. A revolutionary approach to enterprise computing and service-oriented architecture, often badly misunderstood as an embedded devices solution. http://www.jini.org

Design

The K Desktop Environment provides many good icon sets under Free Software licenses, some of which I have adapted for Uncle Unc clients. Thanks go to the authors of these graphics for their permission to reuse their work in this project.