Architecture Rules
At 72 Miles, we not only heavily rely on open source software, but we also partake in open source software development. We created the project Architecture Rules in response to a tutorial on using JDepend to “assert architectural soundness”.
Architecture Rules can be described as
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.
So far we have made a half dozen releases and have had a few of them submit patches and report some minor issues. We expect this project to eventually become a common tool under most developer’s toolbelts.
Check it out at http://architecturerules.googlecode.com/svn/docs/index.html