IzPack - fOSSa 2009

Julien Ponge Free Open Source Software Academia Conference November 17th & 18th 2009

Associate Professor Telecommunications, services and usages dept. CITI / Amazones Dynamic systems Embedded Formal systems Pervasive Observation Ambient Security Mobile

From a hack made in a student dorm room... ... not mine!

...to an industry-backed project.

1 Intro + Demo 2 Some features 3 Positioning 4 Thoughts on F/OSS

Unique installer

Unique installer Multiple systems

v2 Download for your operating system 1: java -Xmx256m -jar filename.jar 2: chmod -R +x lib/ant/bin 3: lib/ant/bin/ant -f setup.xml 4: bin/asadmin start-domain domain

Demo One download Works everywhere Straightforward

~25.000 downloads per month

JavaOne 2008 Grant Invited talks Code contributions Software licenses

Packs, conditions, langpacks, libraries, GUI, metadata, ... Files Descriptor Resources Compiler Installer JAR

MacOSX packages BitRock InstallBuilder

IzPack is the only true cross-platform installer to date

(...) IzPack is a complement

X11 v3.0.0 shortcuts v2.0 Win32 shortcuts CommunityOne (rewrite) UserInputPanel GPL JavaOne 2001 2004 2008 2009 03 08 11 08 02 01 05 04 05 04 11 2002 2005 v1.0 v2.10.0 Move to Move to v4.3.0 v4.3.2, CVS @TuxFamily BerliOS Codehaus fOSSa Fast development Steady growth, people keep on joining

You decide to use it for X11 your next projects v3.0.0 shortcuts v2.0 Win32 shortcuts CommunityOne (rewrite) UserInputPanel GPL JavaOne 2001 2004 2008 2009 03 08 11 08 02 01 05 04 05 04 11 2002 2005 v1.0 v2.10.0 Move to Move to v4.3.0 v4.3.2, CVS @TuxFamily BerliOS Codehaus fOSSa Fast development Steady growth, people keep on joining

Facts I did not expect any success.

Facts I did not expect any success. You are always the last to know about usages.

Facts I did not expect any success. You are always the last to know about usages. Community does not appear magically.

F/OSS... why? nothing’s free! Fun Skills Advertise Strategic market shares Direct revenue streams

Project type “Main” models Consulting Framework Training and libraries Support Dual licensing Support plans Mission-critical Consulting infrastructure Management tools servers Extensions Open Core Products Extensions Customizations

Start Easy Solo work Users! Patches! Community support Hard to reach Mature project Manager work

Be open Recruit developers Learn to say no Spread the news!

The hype Patterns TDD, JSR xyz BDD Best Scripting IoC & DI practices

The hype Patterns TDD, JSR xyz BDD ...your application code will eventually look bad! Best Scripting IoC & DI practices

Success More... emails, requests, expectations, ... Less... forgiveness, understanding, ...

Success More... emails, requests, expectations, ... Less... forgiveness, understanding, ... You can’t scale... live with it!

(A)GPL LGPL, MPL, EPL, ... BSD, ASL, WTF, ... Evil Fair Liberal (mostly) Linux Eclipse IzPack KDE Mozilla Ruby on Rails Dual licensing OpenOfﬁce.org Android Anxious people XWiki Apache

Governance leads, maintainers, committers, Roles contributors, users, ... copyright transfer agreements, I.P. trademarks, ... coding standards, Rules decision making, voting, ...

Thanks to... The amazing IzPack community

Thanks to... The amazing IzPack community (good luck friends!) & +

Julien Ponge INSA-Lyon INRIA / CITI / Amazones julien.ponge@insa-lyon.fr julien.ponge@inria.fr http://julien.ponge.info/

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