Press Release Summary: On www.findJAR.com a free Java search engine has been released. It makes it possible to find JAR files by contained Java classes. The download of required JAR files is possible through direct links to the ibiblio maven repository.
Press Release Body: findJAR.com is a free Java search engine. It can be used by Java developers to resolve NoClassDefFoundError and ClassNotFoundException problems. After entering the name of a desired Java class or JAR file, the respective resources can be downloaded directly.
findJAR.com is based on the contents of the ibiblio maven repository. It contains about 16GB of Java code in more than 16.000 archives. Accordingly, about 2 million class files can currently be found on www.findJAR.com.
Jürgen Kuster, founder of findJAR.com states that the underlying database shall be extended continuously. In the respective process, user input is of particular importance. Only this way it is possible for findJAR.com to keep up with new versions and additionally relevant packages.
findJAR.com is also known as jarFISH application in the recently started serFISH.com service network. On www.serFISH.com a bunch of free services is available: Most popular right now is a web based SSH client named consoleFISH. Both, serFISH.com and findJAR.com were started by Jürgen Kuster in 2008 and are operated in Vienna, Austria.
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