.. DISCOTools

Introduction
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DISCOTools is a consistently modularized into `OSGi <http://www.osgi.org>`_ bundles, 
services and components to ensure proper isolation of 
`API <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Api>`_ and implementation. 
 
Development toolchain
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We use `Maven <http://maven.apache.org>`_ as our project management and comprehension 
tool, `github <http://github.com>`_ for source code and configuration management (SCM),  
`Jenkins <http://jenkins-ci.org/>`_ for continuous integration (build server) and 
`Jira <http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/overview>`_ for issue tracking.