Setting up a new Java development shop

Question

I\'m setting up a Java development shop, currently just for myself as the only developer, but with hopes of needing to hire others as the business grows. Obviously I\'m hoping

Answer 1

Subversion is not a distributed approach -- go for Mercurial, Bazaar or git instead!

Yes, Trac does do bug tracking (among other things -- check it out!).

Documentation is indeed a must but I'm not sure what you're asking -- tools for it? Why not just javadoc?

For communication you can have many tools, such as skype, email, IM of many kinds, and so forth -- you need to express your specific issues better to get specific advice, I think. Google Wave once it matures may be just great, but it's not production-ready yet.

For continuous build check out CruiseControl -- of course it also run tests &c.

You can write "triggers" for any of the build systems I've mentioned (and even good old svn;-) to run some test suite and reject the commit if it fails.