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Assert Your Architecture! with this open source java library. Architecture Rules leverages an xml configuration file and optional programmatic configuration to assert your code's architecture via unit tests or ant tasks. This test is able to assert that specific packages do not depend on others and is able to check for and report on cyclic dependencies among your project's packages and classes. This project wraps a industry accepted JDepend to simplify the process of maintaining a solid software architecture.

License

Licensed under Apache License 2.0 - allows use of the source code for the development of free and open source software as well as proprietary and closed source software.

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Feeds

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Mailing Lists

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Releases

releases

The Releases feed will notify you any time there is a new official release made.

Issues

Monitoring the reported Issues can help you to apprise the state of the software. You might watch the issue list for a while before deciding to upgrade to a new release.

Continuous Integration

build status

For contributors who need to keep on top of their commits.

Start Here

Getting Started configuration examples and how to run the test
Sample Configuration to get you started
Ant Task to run from ant rather than JUnit
Maven 2 plugin
Exceptions descriptions of all them
Javadocs api documentation
Example code

Get Help

Forums for everyone to read & post
Mailing Lists users, dev, activity
Comments one-way notes to the team

More Information

SVN repository
Maven2-repository for hosted artifacts
Dependencies by version
Maven-generated site
Alternative architecture monitoring Java solutions
Issue Tracker to report and track issues

Architecture Propaganda

Cyclic Dependencies the negative consequences
todo Separation of Concern assert independent layers
todo Automate architecture assertions
todo Best Practices of architecture-rules usage

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Architecture Rules