What is the Nazgul Framework?

Software complexity costs - in reduced velocity and increased costs for onboarding and confusion. It is therefore vital to reduce complexity as much as possible - and this can be done for small to really large codebases by using the Nazgul Framework to structure the codebase.

To this end, the Nazgul Framework project holds a collection of best-pracises and sensible configurations enabling you to start projects quickly and scale them to huge sizes without having to change the development or deployment model. Moreover, the Nazgul Framework strives to increase usability for the developers and architects working on a project, as well as reduce complexity/tanglement and increase productivity.

The Nazgul Framework has two main components:

1. Nazgul Framework: Tools. The Nazgul Tools project (this reactor) aims to use best-of-breed tools to achieve a usable, well-composed and simple mode of development and deployment. It defines Maven plugins, Codestyle and Quality tracking, IDE integration and global aspects usable in any project development. Nazgul Tools builds fully OSGi-compliant artifacts and a features-assembly which can be used directly within an OSGi runtime - or as part of any general Java development.

2. Nazgul Framework: Core. The Nazgul Core project (another reactor) provides a set of commonly useable library tools, built on top of the Nazgul Tools codestyle, IDE integration and global aspects. These tools are mainly self-sustaining and are ready to be integrated and used in any project. Nazgul Core builds fully OSGi-compliant artifacts and a features-assembly.