ac·knowl·edg·ment or ac·knowl·edge·ment

n.

• The act of admitting or owning to something.
• Recognition of another's existence, validity, authority, or right.
• An answer or response in return for something done.
• An expression of thanks or a token of appreciation. A formal declaration made to authoritative witnesses to ensure legal validity.

source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

These projects are core to the JAFFA project, and the are required at development and runtime. Therefore you must comply with there licensing and distribution terms as well as those of the JAFFA project. The licensing for all of these can be found by down loading the Jaffa source (See jaffa-src.zip on the source download page) and looking in the /license folder.

license	Struts Presentation Framework
	Log4J for logging and debuging information
license	JAXB - Sun's Early Access version for XML Marshalling
	JDOM - Can XML manipulation be any simpler?
license	WebMacro - Used by the pattern engine as a template mark up language
	DbConnectionBroker - For connection pooling

This are projects that we have used in our RnD prototyping activites, are planning to use, have used for inspiration, or just generally have lying arround because they are so useful.

The list below also identifies most of the open source tool set you'll need if you plan to do some serious development. Java IDE's, Web/J2EE Servers, Configuration Management Tools, Automated Testing Suites, etc. If we give you anything more, we might as well just come in there and write your application for you (Hmmm.. now there'a an idea :-)

	Tomcat, The web server of choice
	JBoss, The J2EE server of choice
	Castor JDO and XML framework (The best OpenSource O/R Layer we found)
	Ant Build Tool for Assembly/Deployment
	JUnit - For unit testing class files
	HttpUnit - For unit testing web applications
	NetBeans - Can a free IDE really be this good? Check out Suns' Forte 4 Java (CE) as well
	CVS - Can any open source project work without it?
	Tortoise - If you use CVS on windows, you'll love this little gem
	Bugzilla - Our Bug Tracking Software Of Choice?

In our travellings throughout the Java, Open Source Software Development Community we have come accross many people, papers, ideas, concepts, articals, pearls of wisdom etc. In this section we'd like to give credit to some of those people, articles and papers that has a real impact on the direction of the Jaffa project.

1. Scott Ambler's O/R Persistence Layer White Paper
2. Martin Folwer's Patterns for the Data Transfer Object and Unit Of Work
3. Sun Microsystems and their publications on J2EE Core Patterns