Introduction: Remixing Snippets and Reusing Components - Finding Source Code on the Web for Remix and Reuse - page 8

Snippets Components Both

API and example code Prospector [ 24 ]

Strathcona [ 14 ]
MAPO [ 39 ]
Mica [ 36 ]
XSnippet [ 32 ]
PA R S E We b [ 38 ]
STeP_IN_Java
[ 41 ]
SNIFF [ 5 ]
Blueprint [ 3 ]
SAS [ 2 ]

JSearch [ 34 ]
XFinder [ 8 ]

Assieme [ 13 ]

search

Koders 6
Google code
search 7
Krugle 8
Merobase [ 17 ]
Sourcerer [ 22 ]
S6 [ 31 ]
Exemplar [ 11 ]

Web-based code search Agora [ 33 ]

SPARS-J 5 [ 18 ]
JBender [ 12 ]

engine

Test-driven code search Code Conjurer Extreme har-

[ 17 ]
CodeGenie [ 20 ]

vesting [ 16 ]

Code snippet web search
engine

Sniplr
Smipple

Project hosting site SourceForge Github

Reuse opportunity recom-
mender

CodeBroker [ 40 ]
Rascal [ 25 ]

Source code integration Jigsaw [ 7 ] Gilligan [ 15 ]

Google 9 General purpose web

search engine

Others Codetrail [ 10 ] JIRISS [ 29 ]

Table 1.2: Tool classification by type of searches

mining techniques. Lessons learned from implementing these innovations are de-
scribed in Chap. 7 . In Chap. 8 , Sushil Krishna Bajracharya considers code retrieval
engines not solely as a stand-alone tool or service, but as infrastructure or platform
for building applications for mining or reusing open source components.