Jiva is hosted on Google Code:
http://code.google.com/p/jiva
Jiva is written in Scala, a very powerful OO/Functional hybrid language that runs on the Java Platform:
http://www.scala-lang.org/
Jiva started out life earlier this year as a GA toolkit written in Java. I decided to port it to Scala because I figured that this might be a good way for me to (a) learn Scala, and (b) have some fun in the process. And I think this has turned out to be mostly true (especially the fun part!).
I should point out that despite its early-release status, Jiva is pretty functional (http://code.google.com/p/jiva
Some quick links:
Download, Build and Run Jiva: http://code.google.com/p/jiva-ng/wiki/JivaQuickStart
Defining and Running GA Problems: http://code.google.com/p/jiva-ng/wiki/DefiningAndRunningGAPr
Samples: http://code.google.com/p/jiva
Other tools used by Jiva:
Sant: for builds (http://code.google.com/p/sant/).
JMock: for testing of Scala code (http://www.jmock.org/).
New Scala Eclipse Plugin (http://lamp.epfl.ch/~mcdirmid/scala.update).
Much4.us: for Backlog/Task Management (http://much4.us/much4/).
Many thanks to the authors of these fine tools! I used them pretty heavily while working on Jiva, and they all held up very well and provided extremely useful functionality.
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Could you post something about your experiences using jMock with Scala? That sounds an interesting combination, especially as the jMock API plays such tricks with the Java 5 syntax.
Will do, Nat.
And thanks for all the great work that you've done with JMock! I have been using it for the past 2-3 years, and it has served me and the teams I have worked with really well during this time.
I have always been wanting to experiment with GA, and jiva finally pushed me into it. Thanks for giving a new "life" to my efforts ;)
I am trying to implement a graph-layout program using jiva.
Is there a mailing-list to which I can post queries? I have a lot of them :)
Harshad, it is good to know that Jiva has got you going with GAs.
You can post your queries at:
http://groups.google.com/group/jiva-ng
Hi Lalit,
I can't seem to find where to change the build config so it no longer looks for the scala compiler javadoc?
Where do I change this?
The build fails because
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/scala-lang/scala-compiler/2.7.2/scala-compiler-2.7.2-javadoc.jar
No longer exists.
cheers
Nick
Hi Nick,
Thanks for catching this.
I took a quick look at the issue. Tweaking the repo search order in ivysettings.xml, so that the scala-tools repo is earlier in the search path than ibiblio, seems to fix things (I need to dig deeper to figure out why).
While I was at it, I also upgraded the build to use scala 2.7.3.
Hi Lalit,
Thanks for the update.
And thank you for creating Jiva.
I am just starting out with Scala and am already excited by my (albeit limited) understanding of the potential of this language.
cheers
Nick
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