Tools

• jam: java automatic make (Download from here)
  a simple generic makefile for java projects

  Read the documentation

  An example of jam configuration file (jam.def)

• ungrind: a java class-file disassembler (Download from here)
  A simple java class-file disassembler based on the book "The Java(TM) Virtual Machine Specification"

• rmsif: ReMove Selected IFs (Download from here)
  An ifdef cleaner for the C preprocessor

  Read the documentation

• getw: get a page from a WEB server (Download from here)
  A Perl script to get a page from a WEB server.
  The usual stuff: connect to port 80 (or the specified port), send your request (GET/POST or HEAD) and get the resulting page.

  Quick and easy. But it can be useful if you need to know what the server really sent back (ok, it can be useful if you are writing a WEB browser :)

• troxy: the tracing proxy (Download from here)
  A simple HTTP proxy server that traces the requests.
  Run troxy and set your browser HTTP Proxy server to point to it. All the requests from your browser and the servers responses will be traced.
  So, now you know what those guys are really talking about :)

  Read the documentation

• indent.xsl: XML Pretty-Printer (Download from here)
  A quick-and-dirty indenter/colorizer for XML. Just to show how it can be done.
  See an example here: indent.html
  NOTE: This version doesn't remove initial formatting :(

• xt-exsl: exsl extension for XT (Download from here)
  These patches implements the common EXSLT extensions to the XT XSLT processor.
  Basically it maps the common extensions "exsl:document", "exsl:node-set" and "exsl:object-type" to the equivalent XT extension ("object-type" is new for XT).

  Apply these changes to the current version of XT

If you find these tools useful, drop me a note at raff@aromatic.org