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This repository contains various third party sources required by the main retepTools repository. The reason for this is when they are only available in SNAPSHOT format and we require a release version to enable us to run a release. Although not ideal, this is sometimes necessary if some critical bug needs to be fixed. Currently this contains docbkx-tools. Rules for this repository: * Projects must follow the same licensing as the main project :- BSD, Apache2 etc but not GPL, LGPL etc * groupId's must be within the uk.org.retep.third-party namespace - and not the projects original namespace (so we don't have version conflicts) * Must be disabled/removed once those projects become stable

Geronimo integration testsuite. This contains 2 profiles, default and child. The default profile is used by the top level suites directly under this. The child profile is used by the test poms under the suites. This pom defines the basic dependencies needed by most suites. The start-selenium, start-server, invoke, and stop-server goals are globally configured here in the pluginManagement sections. They just need to be bound in the suites where needed and appropriate. The test poms under the suites should have this pom as their parent and set their relativePath appropriately The test poms under the suites inherit an empty 'child' profile from here. But any other build executions within the test poms should all be inside a 'child' profile.

How many classes does it take to make a cache? 60? 80? You might think so if you look at the other caches on the market. Ashkay is a streamlined, simple cache that in many ways is more powerful than the other mainstream caches. Ashkay is a strategy based caching tool. In most cases, you might be using a configuration file to tell the cache what rules it should obey. Or, you might just be setting properties on the cache. I have never liked this model as it limits me, the user of the cache to strategies the developer decided were important. Instead, Ashkay lets you choose the strategy(ies) to use when caching certain objects. Of course, a few of the most handy strategies are pre-packaged, but implementing a new one is a simple as can be. Ashkay is a fork of <a href="http://xot.sf.net">xot</a> caching code. Made more sense on its own.

Stepping is a framework designed to ease the implementation of data processing solutions. In use cases where we need to implement data or data-streaming algorithms or any other processing on data, we need to first handle many different infrastructure issues. For example, we need to decide how to split the data processing logic into different steps, think about our threading policy, how to handle communication between the different steps, error handling etc. One of the most important subjects is the Threading Policy of our solution. For example, we need to think how many threads to open, have the option to distribute the processing of data to multiple 'executors' in parallel, have a thread-safe communication layer between the threads etc. On top of that we also care a lot about the performance of our solution, we want to make sure that the latency added by these infrastructures is minimal as possible. Stepping aims to handle many of these aspects so developers can spend their time on the business logic instead of solving these infrastructure and data flow issues issues over and over again.