Software Tools

Here are the tools used for this project:

Evernote - used to document the research journal

Wikispaces - used to document the entire project

Eclipe - used to develop the web server

Jetty - used as the web server container

VMWare Fusion - used to create the initial VMs for web server development and initial testing

VMWare ESXi - used to deploy the VM with the web server

VMWare vSphere - used as the client to access the ESXi server

Apple Xcode - used to develop the Regis iOS application

RESTKit - used with Xcode to develop the REST client interface for the Regis iOS application

RSSKit - used with Xcode to develop the RSS reader for the Regis iOS application

Apache Maven - used as the package management for the web server

Jersey - used to develop the JAX-RS REST API for the web server

Amazon EC2 - used to deploy the initial Jetty web server

MySql - used to store faculty and course data for the web server

Pantaho Data Integration - used to load the MySql database from CSV and/or Excel files

Hibernate - used to create domain objects for the web server to access the MySql database