Development Environment
JaCoCo is currently hosted at GitHub. This document provides an overview of the local and shared tools used for JaCoCo development.
IDE
JaCoCo development is done with the latest Eclipse version 3.7.x. JaCoCo projects are OSGi bundles, therefore the PDE feature is required. The JaCoCo Maven plug-in projects require the M2E for proper dependency resolution.
Project specific Eclipse settings only exist for the following projects. All other projects and test projects link to these settings:
org.jacoco.core
org.jacoco.core.test
JRE/JDK
The minimum JRE version to execute JaCoCo is Java 1.5. However to guarantee compatibility JaCoCo builds should only be executed against a 1.5 JDK.
Build System
The build is based on Maven. The JaCoCo build requires Maven 3.
Third Party Dependencies
JaCoCo has dependencies to the following third party bundles:
- Apache Ant 1.7.x
- JUnit 4
- Objectweb ASM 4.0
These bundles are included with the Eclipse 3.7.x PDE feature and are not part of the JaCoCo source tree.
Source Encoding
All source files and HTML documents are encoded in UTF-8 unless an alternative encoding is required by the file format specification. For example Java property files are always encoded in ISO-8859-1.
Source Control
The JaCoCo source code is maintained in a Git repository at GitHub and can be cloned from
https://github.com/jacoco/jacoco.git
The source tree is organized as a plain list of Eclipse projects that can be imported in a Eclipse workspace.
Issue Tracking
This GitHub issue tracker is used for bug and enhancement tracking.
Communication
The development team communicates through a mailing list. The list is closed for non-developers but the archive is public. Please use the support channels to get in touch with the development team.