The z2-Environment is an open source infrastructure to develop, configure, and run standard Java solutions without build infrastructure nor deployment procedures and so reduces development operations costs significantly.
During development and maintenance you do not need to have a local build environment installed that complements your source code.
The z2-Environment rebuilds Java sources as required and selectively from your development workspace leading to fast development roundtrips and consistent deployments, and ultimately to minimized integration pains.
H. Fard, Y. Yu, J. Mylopoulos, and P. Andritsos. Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE 2005), page 96--110. Edinburgh, UK, The IEEE Computer Society, (April 2005)