Glossary
This is review of terms, which may help you to get the idea, what they mean:
- Asciidoc
- documentation format - plain text with rules defining both the content and format
- Dog
- Documentation generator written by Nanoboot team- Asciidoc is exported to HTML and bundled as a website (collection of pages.)
- Firefox
- a web browser
- Git
- source code versioning tool
- Java
- A programming language
- JavaFX
- A Java library intented to created Java applications with desktop graphical user environment
- Linux
- Operating system written in the C programming language. Its founder is Linux Torvalds (founded in 1991). This operating system is licenced mostly as GPLv2 licence, respects freedom as free and uses Git to version its source code.
- Maven
- tool to build applications written in Java programming language into the form, which can be used by users
- Netbeans
- Application (of type IDE - integrated development tool) mostly used to develop Java applications
- Programming language
- Mostly text-based instructions following a set of rules defining their construction
- Source code
- Text instructions of a programming language
- SQLite
- Embeddable SQL database
- Versioning tool
- Application responsible for management of source code in the form of repositories - storage, multi-user cooperation, ...
