OpenGrok 0.3 review

OpenGrok is a fast source code search and cross reference engine

License: CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License) File size: 2998K Developer: Chandan B.N, Sun Microsystems

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OpenGrok is a fast source code search and cross reference engine.

It helps you search, cross-reference and navigate your source tree. It can understand various program file formats and version control histories like SCCS, RCS and CVS.

In other words it lets you grok (profoundly understand) the open source, hence the name OpenGrok. It is written in Java.

Requirements:
Latest Java
A servlet container like Tomact (5.x or later)
Exuberant Ctags

Usage:

SRC_ROOT refers to the directory containing your source tree. OpenGrok analyzes the source tree and builds a search index along with cross-referenced hypertext versions of the source files. These generated data files will be stored in DATA_ROOT directory.

opengrok.jar: You can also directly use the Java application. If the sources are all located in a directory SRC_ROOT and the data and hypertext files generated by OpenGrok are to be stored in DATA_ROOT, run

$ java -jar opengrok.jar -s SRC_ROOT DATA_ROOT

See opengrok.jar manual below for more details.

What's New in This Release:
Support for Subversion (SVN).
A cscope-like GUI for search.
A GUI wizard for creating or updating the search index.
A new option that supports Web apps with different context URLs.
Better display of matched context.
Following the tradition of the last release, there is a new CSS style sheet with an off-white theme.