There are many ways you can help make XBean a better piece of software - please dive in and help!

Try surf the documentation - if somethings confusing or not clear, let us know. Download the code, try it out, and see what you think. Browse the source code. Got an itch to scratch, want to tune some operation or add some feature?

Want to do some hacking on XBean? Try surfing the our issue tracker for open issues or features that need to be implemented, take ownership of an issue and try to fix it.

If you'd rather a more gentle introduction to working on the XBean project, try look at the unit tests cases and help us to improve our test coverage.

Getting In Touch

There are various ways of communicating with the XBean community.

• visit the Discussion Forums
• subscribe to the Mailing Lists and take part in any conversations
• add some comments to the wiki
• if you use XBean please tell us about it on our Users page

If You Find a Bug or Problem

Please raise a new issue in our issue tracker
If you can create a JUnit test case then your issue is more likely to be resolved quicker.
e.g. take a look at some of the existing unit tests cases

Then we can add your issue to SVN and then we'll know when its really fixed and we can ensure that the problem stays fixed in future releases.

Submitting Patches

We gladly accept patches if you can find ways to improve, tune or fix XBean in some way.

Most IDEs can create nice patches now very easily. If you're a command line person try the following to create the patch:

diff -u Main.java.orig Main.java >> patchfile.txt

or

svn diff Main.java >> patchfile.txt

Using the Issue Tracker

Before you can raise an issue in the issue tracker you need to register with it. This is quick & painless.

If you want to have a go at fixing an issue you need to be in the list of xbean-developers on the issue tracker. To join the group, please let us know on the Mailing Lists letting us know the user name you used to register with the issue tracker and we'll add you to the group.

Why not dive in and try tackle some of our outstanding issues?

ASF JIRA (10 issues)
T	Key	Summary	Assignee	Reporter	Pr	Status	Res	Created	Updated	Due
	XBEAN-109	org.apache.xbean.classloader.JarFileClassLoader can not handle pathnames with containing spaces	Unassigned	Ingo Bormann		Open	UNRESOLVED	Aug 01, 2008	Aug 01, 2008
	XBEAN-92	UrlSet excludePaths() method throws a nullpointer exception if the pathString argument is null	David Blevins	karan singh malhi		Open	UNRESOLVED	Sep 06, 2007	Jul 04, 2008
	XBEAN-77	ClassFinder needs better error handling	Unassigned	David Jencks		Open	UNRESOLVED	Feb 26, 2007	Jul 04, 2008
	XBEAN-108	User Guide? Getting Started?	Unassigned	Victor Volle		Open	UNRESOLVED	Jun 28, 2008	Jun 28, 2008
	XBEAN-105	Wiki errors - An error occurred: Connection refused. The system administrator has been notified.	Unassigned	David Smiley		Open	UNRESOLVED	Mar 13, 2008	May 09, 2008
	XBEAN-96	Enum properties appear as elements not attributes in the xsd schema	Unassigned	alex322		Open	UNRESOLVED	Oct 18, 2007	Feb 28, 2008
	XBEAN-71	qdox dies because it cannot resolve javax/servlet/ServletContext	Dain Sundstrom	Kohsuke Kawaguchi		Open	UNRESOLVED	Jan 23, 2007	Feb 28, 2008
	XBEAN-34	The id attribute defaults to the xbean tag name	Unassigned	David Blevins		Open	UNRESOLVED	Aug 02, 2006	Feb 28, 2008
	XBEAN-72	Plugin needs to implement MavenReport	Unassigned	Kohsuke Kawaguchi		Open	UNRESOLVED	Jan 24, 2007	Feb 28, 2008
	XBEAN-10	Add support for inline xml (bean properties as DOM nodes)	Unassigned	Guillaume Nodet		Open	UNRESOLVED	May 04, 2006	Aug 01, 2006

Becoming a Committer

The first step is contributing to the project; if you want to take that a step forward and become a fellow committer on the project then see the Committer Guide