nWire is a an Eclipse plug-in for software engineers which presents an innovative approach to code exploration. The concept is to create a repository which holds all possible components (like classes, methods) and associations (like extensions, invocations), and provide easy tools for browsing, searching and visualizing that repository. The initial version supports Java static code analysis and I plan to expand it to popular frameworks (like JEE, Spring) and other programming languages. nWire assists and expedites the coding process. It is extremely useful when it comes to understanding code. It is the perfect tool for developers who get lost in big applications, thus has the potential of reducing the learning curve for new developers. It can cut development costs, especially in medium to large development teams, working on complex applications. I invite you to visit my site at http://www.nwiresoftware.com/. There's a demo screencast, screenshots and a lot more information. The product is already installed at several beta customers. If you have any comment or question feel free to send me an email to zviki [at] nwiresoftware.com.

While I find this *commercial* product not uninteresting, how is this post different from plain advertising? Who gets a chance to advertise here? What do I need to do :-) Chris

While I find this *commercial* product not uninteresting, how is this post different from plain advertising? Who gets a chance to advertise here? What do I need to do :-)

Chris

Write some "not uninteresting" *commercial* or *open source* software! ;-) Paul

http://infotectonica.com/juliet/tour/ Juliet was the most powerful source analysis tool I've seen, supporting much more sophisticated queries and set operations on results. Sadly it doesn't support JDK 5+ syntax, so kinda fell off the map. nwire does look useful though.

Just reading about it made me think of Juliet. I was wondering if anyone else remembered that product. Such a neat, innovative product. It even had its own unique GUI toolkit, which actually had a lot of character. It freaking sucks that no one has picked up the Juliet work and ran with it. Ever tried to contact the guy? -larry

Do it like SpringSource. Create a hype around your products and you get plentiful gratis advertising.

While I find this *commercial* product not uninteresting, how is this post different from plain advertising? Who gets a chance to advertise here? What do I need to do :-)

Chris

haha, i think you could try to post a open source software release notification

Not knocking this product, but... I'm surprised all IDEs don't offer "full blown" static analysis scanning of sources and class files into a relational database and then allow arbitrary extensible searches against that database. Everything after that would just be UI glitz on top (which is not to say UI glitz is not useful where it saves you time). [I've done this to a certain level of detail for class files sans UI glitz, using a simple, shared web UI instead.]

Its a shame that theserverside has become a commercial advertising board.

Its a shame that theserverside has become a commercial advertising board.

Theserverside.com - Your Enterprise Java Community. No mention of Open Source exclusivity! Here's a new tool in the Java space, sounds like from a very small operation, if not one-man, probably with little or no advertising budget, trying to compete against much bigger fish, commercial and open source. Best of luck to them, why wouldn't theserverside post?

I agree. I do not like commercial software. Is this fall of TSS?

In my six months at TheServerSide, I've come pretty close to reading just about every post made since the year 2000. As near as I can tell, since its inception TheServerSide has never been exclusively about open source software. In fact, I've found instances throughout the past where commercial press releases have been posted verbatim. I won't do that; you deserve better than having the community simply repeat marketing-speak. And I agree that TheServerSide has a mission to the community to offer open source projects a forum to reach Java developers in a way that doesn't require a financial investment. But there is a larger mission to keep Java developers and architects informed and engaged in new software, solutions, and techniques, irrespective of whether they are open source or commercial. I'm sorry that you don't like commercial software. However, it remains a vibrant and important part of our industry, and TheServerSide will continue to treat it that way.