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The fawkeZ project provides a set of Java classes, tools and utilities that are freely available under a BSD license. More fundamentally, fawkeZ incorporates a set of principles and guidelines for agile software development. The components, tools and utilities can be used without strictly following those principles, but they reveal their real power only when used in combination.

fawkeZ has been developed over many years in software development. In the past, the combination of tools, components and principles supported the team in writing high quality software. The project is released as an open source library so those benefits are freely available to everyone.

The current release line, fawkeZ 2.0.0, removes old and unused features and converts the build from a single Ant project into multiple Maven projects.

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The library is easiest to understand in four parts. Each part has its own page in the wiki.

• Code analysis. PMD, Checkstyle, FindBugs and Cobertura produce findings; JcReport combines them into one browsable report, and the summary report tracks how those findings change over time.
• Documentation. Generators for a Software Requirements Specification, a Software Architecture Document, and Java and SQL coding guidelines, all backed by DocBook. See documentation tools.
• Utility classes. Date and period types, null assertion, base64 encoding, XML filtering and more. See utility classes.
• Code generators. XSLT generators that turn structured XML into Java code on every compile, including strong types and value objects. See other modules.