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Who develop Twitter4J?

Twitter4J is developed by its community members. You can check the project network graph at github.com.

Join the development

To contribute your code, follow the instructions below.

  1. Report to the mailing list

    2. Report the bug, or the feature request to the mailing list. If you are sure that the issue is not a known or a duplicated one, you can skip this step and go to step 2.

  2. Submit the issue

    3. Submit the issue to JIRA. Set the fixed version to the latest snapshot (2.2.6-SNAPSHOT)

  3. Fix it

    4. Fix the source code accordingly. Make sure that:
    • The code meets the coding convention
    • JUnit test case is included in the change
    • The issue# (TFJ-***) is included in the commit log
    • newly created files contain @author tag and the terms of license

  4. Send a pull request

    5. Send a pull request to the upstream repository

  5. Merge and close

    6. The Jira issue will be closed once the pull request was merged and all test cases were passed.

Coding convention

Source code need to respect Code Conventions for the Java(TM) Programming Language as much as possible.
Use of APIs introduced at Java 5+ is not allowed since Twitter4J is desigined to be compatible with JDK 1.4.2. APIs frequently used to brake the compatibility with JDK 1.4.2 are as follows: 

   String#contains()
   String#split()
   StringBuilder
   annotations
   enum
   JUnit 4.x based test cases

Issue management

Atlassian supports our efforts by contributing their bug tracking and issue tracking application, JIRA, to our project.

Atlassian is an innovative Australian software company providing enterprise software solutions to the world's leading organisations. Atlassian's leading software product, JIRA is a bug tracking and issue tracking application developed to track and manage the issues and bugs that emerge during a project. JIRA customers include departments from NASA, Boeing, Cisco, JP Morgan, 3M, BP, Sony and more. Try it for yourself today.


Continuous Integration

Twitter4J is built continuously by Jenkins.

IDE

Twitter4J is a Mavenized project and you can use any IDE to play with Twitter4J. JetBrains is offering an Open Source Project License of IntelliJ IDEA to Twitter4J.org. Anyone who has contributed a patch can get access to the license file for improving Twitter4J. Please ask for more information.

Developed withSmart Java IDE. Web development ready.
Neat HTML and CSS refactorings and more