"I am new here. Show me around."

Welcome to Open Participation Software for Java, or OPS4J for short.

• I want to understand what OPS and OPS4J is all about. Cool, then take the Community Tour. not completed yet.
• I want to subscribe to one or more of our mailing lists.
• I want to chat with the folks here. IRC channel #ops4j on irc.freenode.net
• I want to dig into the GIT Github or Subversion repository.
• I have an issue I want to file into the issue tracking system.
• I have a bunch of questions, that people probably have asked already. Check out the Frequently Asked Questions.
• I finally want to commit some code, edit the site (wiki) or file an issue. This page shows you the way.
• I want some articles, presentations etc. Look here.
• I heard you have sponsors. How does that work?

Software

At OPS4J, we are trying to provide tools and methods to take the dream of component based development a step further. This means the lifecycle of a component can be broken down into

• Runtime - we are proposing OSGi for that.
• Development - we are using both Maven2and Ivy.
• Storage/discovery - OSGi provides some means of that, but we believe that can be complemented by projects like Hansa