Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Luxor would be impossible without open standards and high-quality, free, open source libraries, toolkits and products.

Luxor comes pre-packaged in a single jar named luxor.jar. Note, that luxor.jar only holds Luxor's own .class files and resources and no one else's. Luxor relies on the following open-source libraries:

Name	Description	Creator	Web
velocity.jar	Template Engine	Apache Jakarta	http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity
log4j.jar	Logging Toolkit	Apache Jakarta	http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j
jdom.jar	XML Toolkit	Brett McLaughlin, Jason Hunter	http://www.jdom.org
jaxp.jar*	XML Parser and XSL/T Engine Plug-In Toolkit	Sun Microsystems
crimson.jar*	XML Parser	Apache XML Project
xalan.jar*	XSL/T Engine	Apache XML Project	http://xml.apache.org/xalan
batik.jar	SVG Engine (aka 2D XML Graphics)	Apache XML Project	http://xml.apache.org/batik
jaxen.jar, saxpath.jar	XPath Engine	Bob McWhirter, James Strachan	http://jaxen.org http://saxpath.org
jython.jar	Python Scripting Engine (Jython)	Jython Project, Corporation for National Research Initiatives(CNRI)	http://www.jython.org

(*) Note, that jaxp.jar and a JAXP-plugable XML parser and XSL/T engine are now part of Java 1.4 and no longer needed as separate add-ons.

To vamp up the look and feel of your Luxor apps consider these make-up kits:

Name	Description	Creator	Web
skinlf.jar	Skin Look & Feel (includes theme packs for Whistler (Win2000), Luna (WinXP), Aqua (Mac OS X), Modern (Mozilla) and more)	L2Fprod (Frederic Lavigne)	http://www.l2fprod.com
kunststoff.jar	Kunststoff Look & Feel	Incors GmbH (Jan Bösenberg)	http://www.incors.org
oyoaha.jar	Oyoaha Look & Feel	Oyoaha	http://www.oyoaha.com/lookandfeel/
compiere.jar	Compiere Look & Feel	Compiere	http://www.compiere.org/looks/

To see apps dressed in various themes on the catwalk, check out Vamp's Theme Gallery .

Before Luxor hits the road, the following free, open-source products work hard to make it happen.

Name	Description	Creator	Web
jEdit	Multi-Purpose Text Editor	Slava Pestov	http://www.jedit.org
jEdit Plug-Ins	Error List, Console, Ant, and more	Slava Pestov et al	http://plugins.jedit.org
Ant	extensible, XML-scriptable, cross-platform built tool	Apache Jakarta Project	http://jakarta.apache.org/ant
JRefactory	Pretty Printer	Chris Seguin	http://jrefactory.sourceforge.net
JavaNCSS	Code Metric Tool	Chr. Clemens Lee	http://www.kclee.com/clemens/java/javancss
DocBook XSL Stylesheets	DocBook-XML To XSL-FO Converter	Norman Walsh	http://docbook.sourceforge.net
Apache FOP	XSL-FO To PDF Converter	Apache XML Project	http:/xml.apache.org/fop
PuTTY	Secure Shell And File Transfer - ssh clone	Simon Tatham	http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/