RoKlib is an open source, general purpose Java library originally initiated and maintained by Roland Krueger. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and can thus be freely used and distributed according to the terms of this license.
RoKlib provides a number of useful features which can be helpful in a wide range of application types. If you are interested in an overview of the main features provided by RoKlib you can take a look at section About RoKlib. There you'll find an abstract of each of the library's features. For an in-depth discussion of the single parts of this library you can consult the documentation section. Here, the individual features are described and examples on how to use them are given.
To directly see what this library has to offer, if is planned to give you the opportunity to run a small demo program which demonstrates the most important features of RoKlib in a tangible way. Features which can be demonstrated visually are presented with screenshots in the demo section.
An important goal for this library is to provide a robust and error-free API. The classes are therefore thoroughly tested by unit tests. At the time of writing (January 2011) more than 560 unit tests assert the library's correctness.
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RoKlib is currently in productive use in several projects. These are among others the German internet community site Spar-Radar.com and the author's open source project Lexis, a language independent vocabulary trainer.
The source code of RoKlib can be obtained directly from the project hosting site Launchpad.net. You need the SCM tool Bazaar for getting a checkout of the sources or for creating an own development branch.
Another option is to directly download a current snapshot of the source and binary distribution from the download section.
RoKlib is maintained as an Apache Maven project. Maven is an excellent build tool for Java projects and can be downloaded on the Maven project site. You can get a copy of the whole RoKlib Maven project including this documentation and build the library from its sources. It is also possible to download the library's Jar file containing only the binary distribution.
To install RoKlib in your local repository, you'll also use the Maven build tool. More information about this can be found on the installation page.
This work which comprises the complete documentation data of the RoKlib library is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.