Like many open source projects, Apache OODT is continually being developed and improved upon by its devoted team members.
Version 0.4 has been released and is available for download and use. This is a major release that includes 168 fixed issues in JIRA and is now the major recommended release of OODT to be using. One major note is that the updates to the workflow manager (described in OODT-215) are not yet fully complete. Instead of waiting for them to finish, we rolled this release and are recommending users to stay on the 0.3 version of the workflow manager, cas-pge, and the crawler components. All other components should be upgraded to their 0.4 counterparts. A complete list of changes can be found here. Grab your copy from the Download page today.
Version 0.3 has been released and is available for download and use. This is the second release from the team as a Top Level Project and includes several bug fixes and enhancements, over 50 issues were closed during this release cycle. A complete list of changes can be found here. Grab your copy from the Download page today.
The Apache OODT community is proud to present version 0.2 for download and use. This is the first release from the team as a Top Level Project, which demonstrates our commitment to continuous improvement. Be sure to visit the Download page to get a copy for yourself.
The OODT Team has graduated from the Incubator and we are pleased to inform you that our code is available for download. We've developed a roadmap outlining future releases, including the first release under Apache aegis: 0.1-incubating, which we hope to offer for download shortly. Of course, there's nothing stopping an early adopter from grabbing the source and building it him or herself.
Build Details
The majority of the components of OODT is written in Java, while the Agility component is written in Python. Knowledge of both is nice, though.
Each component of the Java build is controlled by Maven. However, there is also a top-level project object model that orchestrates building all of the OODT components. Maven is not used for the Agility component; being Python, it takes advantage of the traditional Python Distutils enhanced by Distribute.
Testing
While we may not fully subscribe to the idea that "untested code is broken code", we do strive to include a lot of automated unit and functional testing.