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.