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- Eclipse 3.6 Java edition
- subclipse for Subversion
- m2eclipse for maven
- findbugs
- emma
- groovy-eclipse (http://dist.springsource.org/release/GRECLIPSE/e3.6/)
Setting up IRC client
We have an IRC chatroom #apache-isis on freenode.net. You can use any IRC client you want. If you don't habitually use an IRC client, then you might want to try freenode's webchat client which you can run from in your web browser. See IrcWebChat for more info.
Where next?
Next, look at BuildProcess