JeraWorks is a cross-platform outliner, and JohnBrewer's current development project.  You can download a beta at:

http://www.jera.com/jeraworks/

I (JohnBrewer), am in the process of converting JeraWorks to an ExtremeProgrammingForOne project.  I'll try to keep a log of my progress below:
	* 1/19/00 Added first explicit UnitTest''''''s via JUnit (aka JavaUnit).
	* 1/20/00 Posted the first of an (expected) series of JeraWorksUserStories.
	* 1/20/00 Had my first CodeSmell experience.  I needed access to the application global properties object, which I had wisely declared private.  As I created a public accessor function, I noticed the smell, noted it in the method comment, and then had an "aha".  The only place I need the accessor is in a subclass of Application, so making the accessor protected made the bad smell go away.
	* 1/24/00 Ran into a situation where I didn't call "pack()" on my JDialog before displaying it.  Asked myself, "What UnitTest could I have run to avoid this?" and created an AWTTestCase class with an assertIsReasonable(Component c) method.  Right now the method just checks to see if c is non-null, and has height and width > 3.  I thought of lots of other tests I could add, and would have been on a multi-hour rabbit trail, when "YouArentGonnaNeedIt" dawned on me.  I'll add additional tests to assertIsReasonable on an as-needed basis.
	* 1/29/00 I'm going to be consulting for a few days, so it may be a while before the next update.
	* 2/11/00 Just because I'm consulting, doesn't mean I can't be Extreme!  One of my first tasks was to write a set of input validation methods.  I cranked up JavaUnit, and wrote them test-first.  Coding speed was dramatically faster than I'm used to, and I had extremely high confidence in the end product.

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