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<p>This page documents items that may be helpful to other developers, especially to those who are new to FOP. Exhaustive treatment of these topics is better suited to other fora, but the information presented here is intended to deal with FOP-specific issues related to these tools, especially "gotchas", and to help developers get jump-started.</p>
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+ <title>General Developer Information</title>
+ <p>See <link href="http://www.apache.org/dev/contributors.html">the Apache Contributors Tech Guide</link> for useful information and links for Apache developers, including help with tools and procedures.</p>
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<title>Concurrent Versions System (CVS)</title>
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<title>Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)</title>
<p>An IDE is not required, but will generally be found to be helpful, especially for serious debugging and refactoring.</p>
+ <p>See <link href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/idedevelopers.html">the Apache Jakarta IDE Developer's Guide</link> for useful information on Java IDEs.</p>
<p>Borland's JBuilder 7/8 does not support Ant builds unless you have the Enterprise Edition (which is quite expensive). This causes problems with any code that is generated by the Ant build. First, you must run the Ant build before you can use the IDE. Second, when you are editing in the IDE, you must be editing the generated files, which means that you must make any changes to the source files in another editor. This is less serious for development on the trunk, but in the maintenance branch, all source files were "generated".</p>
<p>Sun ONE Studio Four does support Ant, but seems to use a built-in version, and as of this writing chokes on the FOP build file, saying that it is not valid. There is awkward because there is no official DTD for Ant, and it may be merely an Ant version issue.</p>
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