Recommended Development

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Tools

Software engineering/development/programming is difficult. Experienced developers have a quiver full of software tools at their disposal to aid in complex day-to-day tasks. Mifos developers are no exception.

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In general, the Mifos team enforces maintainability of source code via coding standards, code reviews, and other process-oriented, people-oriented tools. That's why none of these software development tools are required. But they may make your life easier.

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The IDE used by most Mifos developers is Eclipse Eclipse meets all the goals of Mifos development tools. If you choose another IDE, that's fine! Ask for help with this on IRC or our developer mailing list: some developers use IDEs besides Eclipse.

Database Development

MySQL Workbench

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/

SQuirrel SQL

SQuirrel SQL is a FLOSS and feature-rich IDE for working with databases. SQL and Hibernate querying are supported.

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Examples of hosted services include, but are not limited to:

• issue tracking
• continuous building
• mailing lists
• live chat
  • commit notifications
• source code version control
• source code browser
• project management (JIRA/Greenhopper)
• schema browser
• sonar
• general project content

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