Merobase is a software

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that allows developers to find, share and reuse software components from the Internet. The engine harvests software components from a large variety of sources, including Apache, SourceForge, and Java.net. It finished its beta phase and went live in March 2007. A unique feature of merobase compared to other code search engines is its ability to support interface-driven searches – that is, searches based on the abstract interface that a component offers rather than on the text in its source code. This allows merobase to support searches for binary components (e.g., Java

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, CLI assemblies) and web services, as well as source code, and significantly enhances its precision. Merobase Plugins are available for

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and Internet Explorer, as well as for well known IDE's such as Eclipse.

External links

Merobase Homepage

Test-Driven Reuse with Merobase
Internet search engines Code search engines