kawala is Wealthfront's software platform, containing a number of distinct sub-projects: kawala-common - Common helper code kawala-converters - Convert objects to and from Strings using Instantiators kawala-guice - Guice helpers kawala-hibernate - Hibernate helpers kawala-testing - Advanced Testing techniques Please read http://code.google.com/p/kawala/wiki/Rationale for more details. Kawala uses Maven 3 for dependency management. To build all Kawala components, test, and install them to your local Maven repository, $ mvn install To open Kawala in Eclipse, use the m2eclipse plugin (http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/installing-m2eclipse.html). Then, in Eclipse, File > Import > Existing Maven Projects.