awesome-java
by akullpp
A curated list of awesome frameworks, libraries and software for the Java programming language.
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A curated list of tools and frameworks for building, designing, and managing Java applications
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Projects / Architecture
ArchUnit
Test library for specifying and asserting architecture rules
jMolecules
Annotations and interfaces to express design and architecture concepts in code
Projects / Bean Mapping
dOOv
Provides fluent API for typesafe domain model validation and mapping. It uses annotations, code generation and a type safe DSL to make bean validation and mapping fast and easy
JMapper
Uses byte code manipulation for lightning-fast mapping. Supports annotations and API or XML configuration
MapStruct
Code generator that simplifies mappings between different bean types, based on a convention-over-configuration approach
ModelMapper
Intelligent object mapping library that automatically maps objects to each other
Orika
JavaBean-mapping framework that recursively copies (among other capabilities) data from one object to another
reMap
Lambda and method handle-based mapping which requires code and not annotations if objects have different names
Selma
Annotation processor-based bean mapper
Projects / Build
- Apache Maven
Declarative build and dependency management that favors convention over configuration. It might be preferable to Apache Ant, which uses a rather procedural approach and can be difficult to maintain
- Bazel
Tool from Google that builds code quickly and reliably
Buck2
Encourages the creation of small, reusable modules consisting of code and resources
- Gradle
Incremental builds programmed via Groovy instead of declaring XML. Works well with Maven's dependency management
Projects / Bytecode Manipulation
- ASM
All-purpose, low-level bytecode manipulation and analysis
- Byte Buddy
Further simplifies bytecode generation with a fluent API
bytecode-viewer
Java 8 Jar & Android APK reverse engineering suite. (GPL-3.0-only)
- Byteman
Manipulate bytecode at runtime via DSL (rules); mainly for testing/troubleshooting. (LGPL-2.1-or-later)
cglib
Bytecode generation library
Javassist
Tries to simplify bytecode editing
Maker
Provides low level bytecode generation
Mixin
Manipulate bytecode at runtime using real Java code
Perses
Dynamically injects failure/latency at the bytecode level according to principles of chaos engineering
- Recaf
JVM reverse engineering toolkit, essentially an IDE for Java bytecode
Projects / Caching
- cache2k
In-memory high performance caching library
Caffeine
High-performance, near-optimal caching library
- Ehcache
Distributed general-purpose cache
- Infinispan
Highly concurrent key/value datastore used for caching
Projects / CLI
- Airline
Annotation-based framework for parsing Git-like command-line arguments
- JCommander
Command-line argument-parsing framework with custom types and validation via implementing interfaces
jbock
Reflectionless command line parser
JLine
Includes features from modern shells like completion or history
- picocli
ANSI colors and styles in usage help with annotation-based POSIX/GNU/any syntax, subcommands, strong typing for both options and positional args
Jansi
ANSI escape codes to format console output
- Jexer
Advanced console (and Swing) text user interface (TUI) library, with mouse-draggable windows, built-in terminal window manager, and sixel image support. Looks like
Text-IO
Aids the creation of full console-based applications
Lanterna
Easy console text-GUI library, similar to curses. (LGPL-3.0-only)
Projects / Code Analysis
Checkstyle
Static analysis of coding conventions and standards. (LGPL-2.1-or-later)
Error Prone
Catches common programming mistakes as compile-time errors
Error Prone Support
Error Prone extensions: extra bug checkers and a large battery of Refaster templates
Infer
Modern static analysis tool for verifying the correctness of code
- jQAssistant
Static code analysis with Neo4J-based query language. (GPL-3.0-only)
NullAway
Eliminates NullPointerExceptions with low build-time overhead
PMD
Source code analysis for finding bad coding practices
p3c
Provides Alibaba's coding guidelines for PMD, IDEA and Eclipse
RefactorFirst
Identifies and prioritizes God Classes and Highly Coupled classes
SonarJava
Static analyzer for SonarQube & SonarLint. (LGPL-3.0-only)
Spoon
Library for analyzing and transforming Java source code
Spotbugs
Static analysis of bytecode to find potential bugs. (LGPL-2.1-only)
Projects / Code Coverage
- Clover
Relies on source-code instrumentation instead of bytecode instrumentation
- Cobertura
Relies on offline (or static) bytecode instrumentation and class loading to collect code coverage metrics. (GPL-2.0-only)
- JaCoCo
Framework that enables collection of code coverage metrics, using both offline and runtime bytecode instrumentation
Projects / Code Generators
ADT4J
JSR-269 code generator for algebraic data types
Auto
Generates factory, service, and value classes
- Avaje Http Server
Generates Lightweight JAX-RS style http servers using Javalin or Helidon (Nima) SE
- Bootify
Browser-based Spring Boot app generation with JPA model and REST API
FreeBuilder
Automatically generates the Builder pattern
Geci
Discovers files that need generated code, updates automatically and writes to the source with a convenient API
- Immutables
Annotation processors to generate simple, safe and consistent value objects
JavaPoet
API to generate source files
JHipster
Yeoman source code generator for Spring Boot and AngularJS
- Joda-Beans
Small framework that adds queryable properties to Java, enhancing JavaBeans
- JPA Buddy
Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA. Provides visual tools for generating JPA entities, Spring Data JPA repositories, Liquibase changelogs and SQL scripts. Offers automatic Liquibase/Flyway script generation by comparing model to DB, and reverse engineering JPA entities from DB tables
- Lombok
Code generator that aims to reduce verbosity
Record-Builder
Companion builder class, withers and templates for Java records
- Telosys
Simple and light code generator available as an Eclipse Plugin and also as a CLI
Projects / Compiler-compiler
Projects / Computer Vision
Projects / Configuration
- avaje config
Loads yaml and properties files, supports dynamic configuration, plugins, file-watching and config event listeners
centraldogma
Highly-available version-controlled service configuration repository based on Git, ZooKeeper and HTTP/2
config
Configuration library supporting Java properties, JSON or its human optimized superset HOCON
Configurate
Configuration library with support for various configuration formats and transformations
- Curator Framework
High-level API for Apache ZooKeeper
dotenv
Twelve-factor configuration library which uses environment-specific files
Externalized Properties
Lightweight yet powerful configuration library which supports resolution of properties from external sources and an extensible post-processing/conversion mechanism
Gestalt
Gestalt offers a comprehensive solution to the challenges of configuration management. It allows you to source configuration data from multiple inputs, merge them intelligently, and present them in a structured, type-safe manner
- ini4j
Provides an API for handling Windows' INI files
KAConf
Annotation-based configuration system for Java and Kotlin
- microconfig
Configuration system designed for microservices which helps to separate configuration from code. The configuration for different services can have common and specific parts and can be dynamically distributed
owner
Reduces boilerplate of properties
Projects / Constraint Satisfaction Problem Solver
- Choco
Off-the-shelf constraint satisfaction problem solver that uses constraint programming techniques
JaCoP
Includes an interface for the FlatZinc language, enabling it to execute MiniZinc models. (AGPL-3.0)
- OptaPlanner
Business planning and resource scheduling optimization solver
- Timefold
Flexible solver with Spring/Quarkus support and quickstarts for the Vehicle Routing Problem, Maintenance Scheduling, Employee Shift Scheduling and much more
Projects / CSV
FastCSV
Performance-optimized, dependency-free and RFC 4180 compliant
jackson-dataformat-csv
Jackson extension for reading and writing CSV
- opencsv
Simple CSV parser
- Super CSV
Powerful CSV parser with support for Dozer, Joda-Time and Java 8
uniVocity-parsers
One of the fastest and most feature-complete parsers. Also comes with parsers for TSV and fixed-width records
Projects / Data Structures
- Apache Avro
Data interchange format with dynamic typing, untagged data, and absence of manually assigned IDs
- Apache Orc
Fast and efficient columnar storage format for Hadoop-based workloads
- Apache Parquet
Columnar storage format based on assembly algorithms from Google's paper on Dremel
- Apache Thrift
Data interchange format that originated at Facebook
Big Queue
Fast and persistent queue based on memory-mapped files
HyperMinHash-java
Probabilistic data structure for computing union, intersection, and set cardinality in loglog space
Persistent Collection
Persistent and immutable analogue of the Java Collections Framework
Protobuf
Google's data interchange format
RoaringBitmap
Fast and efficient compressed bitmap
SBE
Simple Binary Encoding, one of the fastest message formats around
Tape
Lightning-fast, transactional, file-based FIFO
Wire
Clean, lightweight protocol buffers
Projects / Database
- Apache Calcite
Dynamic data management framework. It contains many of the pieces that comprise a typical database management system
- Apache Drill
Distributed, schema on-the-fly, ANSI SQL query engine for Big Data exploration
- Apache Phoenix
High-performance relational database layer over HBase for low-latency applications
ArangoDB
ArangoDB Java driver
Chronicle Map
Efficient, in-memory (opt. persisted to disk), off-heap key-value store
- Debezium
Low latency data streaming platform for change data capture
- druid
High-performance, column-oriented, distributed data store
eXist
NoSQL document database and application platform. (LGPL-2.1-only)
FlexyPool
Brings metrics and failover strategies to the most common connection pooling solutions
- Flyway
Simple database migration tool
- H2
Small SQL database notable for its in-memory functionality
HikariCP
High-performance JDBC connection pool
- HSQLDB
HyperSQL 100% Java database
- JDBI
Convenient abstraction of JDBC
Jedis
Small client for interaction with Redis, with methods for commands
Jest
Client for the Elasticsearch REST API
jetcd
Client library for etcd
Jinq
Typesafe database queries via symbolic execution of Java 8 Lambdas (on top of JPA or jOOQ)
- jOOQ
Generates typesafe code based on SQL schema
Leaf
Distributed ID generate service
- Lettuce
Lettuce is a scalable Redis client for building non-blocking Reactive applications
- Liquibase
Database-independent library for tracking, managing and applying database schema changes
- MapDB
Embedded database engine that provides concurrent collections backed on disk or in off-heap memory
MariaDB4j
Launcher for MariaDB that requires no installation or external dependencies
Modality
Lightweight ORM with database reverse engineering features
OpenDJ
LDAPv3 compliant directory service, developed for the Java platform, providing a high performance, highly available, and secure store for the identities
- Querydsl
Typesafe unified queries
QueryStream
Build JPA Criteria queries using a Stream-like API
QuestDB
High-performance SQL database for time series. Supports InfluxDB line protocol, PostgreSQL wire protocol, and REST
Realm
Mobile database to run directly inside phones, tablets or wearables
Redisson
Allows for distributed and scalable data structures on top of a Redis server
requery
Modern, lightweight but powerful object mapping and SQL generator. Easily map to or create databases, or perform queries and updates from any Java-using platform
Speedment
Database access library that utilizes Java 8's Stream API for querying
Spring Data JPA MongoDB Expressions
Allows you to use MongoDB query language to query your relational database
- Trino
Distributed SQL query engine for big data
- Vibur DBCP
JDBC connection pool library with advanced performance monitoring capabilities
Xodus
Highly concurrent transactional schema-less and ACID-compliant embedded database
CosId
Universal, flexible, high-performance distributed ID generator
Projects / Date and Time
iCal4j
Parse and build iCalendar data models
Jollyday
Determines the holidays for a given year, country/name and eventually state/region
ThreeTen-Extra
Additional date-time classes that complement those in JDK 8
Time4J
Advanced date and time library. (LGPL-2.1-only)
Projects / Dependency Injection
- Apache DeltaSpike
CDI extension framework
- Avaje Inject
Microservice-focused compile-time injection framework without reflection
- Dagger
Compile-time injection framework without reflection
Feather
Ultra-lightweight, JSR-330-compliant dependency injection library
Governator
Extensions and utilities that enhance Google Guice
Guice
Lightweight and opinionated framework that completes Dagger
- HK2
Lightweight and dynamic dependency injection framework
JayWire
Lightweight dependency injection framework. (LGPL-3.0-only)
Projects / Development
- AspectJ
Seamless aspect-oriented programming extension
- DCEVM
JVM modification that allows unlimited redefinition of loaded classes at runtime. (GPL-2.0-only)
Faux Pas
Library that simplifies error handling by circumventing the issue that none of the functional interfaces in the Java Runtime is allowed by default to throw checked exceptions
HotswapAgent
Unlimited runtime class and resource redefinition. (GPL-2.0-only)
JavaParser
Parse, modify and generate Java code
JavaSymbolSolver
Symbol solver
Manifold
Re-energizes Java with powerful features like type-safe metaprogramming, structural typing and extension methods
- NoException
Allows checked exceptions in functional interfaces and converts exceptions to Optional return
SneakyThrow
Ignores checked exceptions without bytecode manipulation. Can also be used inside Java 8 stream operations
- Tail
Enable infinite recursion using tail call optimization
Projects / Distributed Applications
- Apache Geode
In-memory data management system that provides reliable asynchronous event notifications and guaranteed message delivery
- Apache Storm
Realtime computation system
- Apache ZooKeeper
Coordination service with distributed configuration, synchronization, and naming registry for large distributed systems
- Atomix
Fault-tolerant distributed coordination framework
- Axon
Framework for creating CQRS applications
Dropwizard Circuit Breaker
Circuit breaker design pattern for Dropwizard. (GPL-2.0-only)
Failsafe
Simple failure handling with retries and circuit breakers
Hazelcast
Highly scalable in-memory datagrid with a free open-source version
- JGroups
Toolkit for reliable messaging and cluster creation
- Quasar
Lightweight threads and actors for the JVM
resilience4j
Functional fault tolerance library
OpenIG
High-performance reverse proxy server with specialized session management and credential replay functionality
ScaleCube Services
Embeddable Cluster-Membership library based on SWIM and gossip protocol
Zuul
Gateway service that provides dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, security, and more
Projects / Distributed Transactions
- Atomikos
Provides transactions for REST, SOA and microservices with support for JTA and XA
Bitronix
Simple but complete implementation of the JTA 1.1 API
- Narayana
Provides support for traditional ACID and compensation transactions, also complies with JTA, JTS and other standards. (LGPL-2.1-only)
Seata
Delivers high performance and easy to use distributed transaction services under a microservices architecture
Projects / Distribution
Artipie
Binary artifact management toolkit which hosts them on the file system or S3
- Boxfuse
Deployment of JVM applications to AWS using the principles of immutable infrastructure
Capsule
Simple and powerful packaging and deployment. A fat JAR on steroids, or a "Docker for Java" that supports JVM-optimized containers
- Central Repository
Largest binary component repository available as a free service to the open-source community. Default used by Apache Maven, and available in all other build tools
- Cloudsmith
Fully managed package management SaaS with support for Maven/Gradle/SBT with a free tier
Getdown
System for deploying Java applications to end-user computers and keeping them up to date. Developed as an alternative to Java Web Start
- IzPack
Setup authoring tool for cross-platform deployments
JavaPackager
Maven and Gradle plugin which provides an easy way to package Java applications in native Windows, macOS or GNU/Linux executables, and generate installers for them
- jDeploy
Deploy desktop apps as native Mac, Windows or Linux bundles
jlink.online
Builds optimized runtimes over HTTP
- Nexus
Binary management with proxy and caching capabilities
packr
Packs JARs, assets and the JVM for native distribution on Windows, Linux and macOS
really-executable-jars-maven-plugin
Maven plugin for making self-executing JARs
Projects / Document Processing
- Apache POI
Supports OOXML (XLSX, DOCX, PPTX) as well as OLE2 (XLS, DOC or PPT)
- documents4j
API for document format conversion using third-party converters such as MS Word
- docx4j
Create and manipulate Microsoft Open XML files
fastexcel
High performance library to read and write large Excel (XLSX) worksheets
zerocell
Annotation-based API for reading data from Excel sheets into POJOs with focus on reduced overhead
Projects / Financial
Projects / Formal Verification
CATG
Concolic unit testing engine. Automatically generates unit tests using formal methods
- Checker Framework
Pluggable type systems. Includes nullness types, physical units, immutability types and more. (GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0)
- Daikon
Detects likely program invariants and generates JML specs based on those invariants
Java Path Finder (JPF)
JVM formal verification tool containing a model checker and more. Created by NASA
- JMLOK 2.0
Detects inconsistencies between code and JML specification through feedback-directed random tests generation, and suggests a likely cause for each nonconformance detected. (GPL-3.0-only)
- KeY
Formal software development tool that aims to integrate design, implementation, formal specification, and formal verification of object-oriented software as seamlessly as possible. Uses JML for specification and symbolic execution for verification. (GPL-2.0-or-later)
- OpenJML
Translates JML specifications into SMT-LIB format and passes the proof problems implied by the program to backend solvers. (GPL-2.0-only)
Projects / Functional Programming
Cyclops
Monad and stream utilities, comprehensions, pattern matching, functional extensions for all JDK collections, future streams, trampolines and much more
derive4j
Java 8 annotation processor and framework for deriving algebraic data types constructors, pattern-matching and morphisms. (GPL-3.0-only)
- Fugue
Functional extensions to Guava
- Functional Java
Implements numerous basic and advanced programming abstractions that assist composition-oriented development
jOOλ
Extension to Java 8 that aims to fix gaps in lambda by providing numerous missing types and a rich set of sequential Stream API additions
protonpack
Collection of stream utilities
StreamEx
Enhances Java 8 Streams
- Vavr
Functional component library that provides persistent data types and functional control structures
Projects / Game Development
- FXGL
JavaFX Game Development Framework
- JBox2D
Port of the renowned C++ 2D physics engine
- jMonkeyEngine
Game engine for modern 3D development
- libGDX
All-round cross-platform, high-level framework
- Litiengine
AWT-based, lightweight 2D game engine
- LWJGL
Robust framework that abstracts libraries like OpenGL/CL/AL
- Mini2Dx
Beginner-friendly, master-ready framework for rapidly prototyping and building 2D games
- Void2D
High-level 2D game engine with built-in physics based on Swing
Projects / Geospatial
- Apache SIS
Library for developing geospatial applications
ArcGIS Maps SDK for Java
JavaFX library for adding mapping and GIS functionality to desktop apps
Geo
GeoHash utilities in Java
- GeoTools
Library that provides tools for geospatial data. (LGPL-2.1-only)
GraphHopper
Road-routing engine. Used as a Java library or standalone web service
- H2GIS
Spatial extension of the H2 database. (LGPL-3.0-only)
- Jgeohash
Library for using the GeoHash algorithm
Mapsforge
Map rendering based on OpenStreetMap data. (LGPL-3.0-only)
Spatial4j
General-purpose spatial/geospatial library
Projects / GUI
- JavaFX
Successor of Swing
- Scene Builder
Visual layout tool for JavaFX applications
SnapKit
Modern Java UI library for both desktop and web
- SWT
Graphical widget toolkit
Projects / High Performance
Agrona
Data structures and utility methods that are common in high-performance applications
- Disruptor
Inter-thread messaging library
Eclipse Collections
Collections framework inspired by Smalltalk
- fastutil
Fast and compact type-specific collections
- HPPC
Primitive collections
JCTools
Concurrency tools currently missing from the JDK
Koloboke
Carefully designed extension of the Java Collections Framework with primitive specializations and more
Projects / HTTP Clients
- Apache HttpComponents
Toolset of low-level Java components focused on HTTP and associated protocols
Async Http Client
Asynchronous HTTP and WebSocket client library
- Avaje Http Client
Wrapper on JDK 11's HttpClient that adds Feign-like interface among other enhancements
Feign
HTTP client binder inspired by Retrofit, JAXRS-2.0, and WebSocket
Google HTTP Client
Pluggable HTTP transport abstraction with support for java.net.HttpURLConnection, Apache HTTP Client, Android, Google App Engine, XML, Gson, Jackson and Protobuf
methanol
HTTP client extensions library
- Retrofit
Typesafe REST client
Ribbon
Client-side IPC library that is battle-tested in the cloud
Riptide
Client-side response routing for Spring's RestTemplate
unirest-java
Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library
Projects / Hypermedia Types
Projects / IDE
- Eclipse
Established open-source project with support for lots of plugins and languages
- IntelliJ IDEA
Supports many JVM languages and provides good options for Android development. The commercial edition targets the enterprise sector
- jGRASP
Created to provide software visualizations that work in conjunction with the debugger such as Control Structure Diagrams, UML class diagrams and Object Viewer
- NetBeans
Provides integration for several Java SE and EE features, from database access to HTML5
- SnapCode
Modern IDE for Java running in the browser, focused on education
- Visual Studio Code
Provides Java support for lightweight projects with a simple, modern workflow by using extensions from the internal marketplace
Projects / Imagery
Imgscalr
Simple, efficient and hardware-accelerated image-scaling library implemented in pure Java 2D
Tess4J
JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR API
Thumbnailator
High-quality thumbnail generation library
TwelveMonkeys
Collection of plugins that extend the number of supported image file formats
ZXing
Multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library
image-comparison
Library that compares 2 images with the same sizes and shows the differences visually by drawing rectangles. Some parts of the image can be excluded from the comparison
Projects / Introspection
ClassGraph
ClassGraph (formerly FastClasspathScanner) is an uber-fast, ultra-lightweight, parallelized classpath scanner and module scanner for Java, Scala, Kotlin and other JVM languages
jOOR
jOOR stands for jOOR Object Oriented Reflection. It is a simple wrapper for the java.lang.reflect package
- Mirror
Mirror was created to bring light to a simple problem, usually named ReflectionUtil, which is on almost all projects that rely on reflection to do advanced tasks
- Objenesis
Allows dynamic instantiation without default constructor, e.g. constructors which have required arguments, side effects or throw exceptions
ReflectASM
ReflectASM is a very small Java library that provides high performance reflection by using code generation
Reflections
Reflections scans your classpath, indexes the metadata, allows you to query it on runtime and may save and collect that information for many modules within your project
Projects / Job Scheduling
JobRunr
Job scheduling library which utilizes lambdas for fire-and-forget, delayed and recurring jobs. Guarantees execution by single scheduler instance using optimistic locking. Has features for persistence, minimal dependencies and is embeddable
Quartz
Feature-rich, open source job scheduling library that can be integrated within virtually any Java application
Sundial
Lightweight framework to simply define jobs, define triggers and start the scheduler
Wisp
Simple library with minimal footprint and straightforward API
db-scheduler
Persistent and cluster-friendly scheduler
easy-batch
Set up batch jobs with simple processing pipelines. Records are read in sequence from a data source, processed in pipeline and written in batches to a data sink
shedlock
Makes sure that your scheduled tasks are executed at most once at the same time. If a task is being executed on one node, it acquires a lock which prevents execution of the same task from another node or thread
Projects / JSON
- Avaje Jsonb
Reflection-free Json binding via source code generation with Jackson-like annotations
DSL-JSON
JSON library with advanced compile time databinding
- Genson
Powerful and easy-to-use Java-to-JSON conversion library
Gson
Serializes objects to JSON and vice versa. Good performance with on-the-fly usage
HikariJSON
High-performance JSON parser, 2x faster than Jackson
jackson-modules-java8
Set of Jackson modules for Java 8 datatypes and features
Jackson-datatype-money
Open-source Jackson module to support JSON serialization and deserialization of JavaMoney data types
Jackson
Similar to GSON, but offers performance gains if you need to instantiate the library more often
JSON-io
Convert Java to JSON. Convert JSON to Java. Pretty print JSON. Java JSON serializer
- jsoniter
Fast and flexible library with iterator and lazy parsing API
LoganSquare
JSON parsing and serializing library based on Jackson's streaming API. Outperforms GSON & Jackson's library
Moshi
Modern JSON library, less opinionated and uses built-in types like List and Map
Yasson
Binding layer between classes and JSON documents similar to JAXB
fastjson
Very fast processor with no additional dependencies and full data binding
Jolt
JSON to JSON transformation tool
JsonPath
Extract data from JSON using XPATH-like syntax
JsonSurfer
Streaming JsonPath processor dedicated to processing big and complicated JSON data
Projects / JVM and JDK
- Adopt Open JDK
Community-driven OpenJDK builds, including both HotSpot and OpenJ9
- Corretto
No-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK by Amazon. (GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0)
Dragonwell8
Downstream version of OpenJDK optimized for online e-commerce, financial, logistics applications
Graal
Polyglot embeddable JVM. (GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0)
- Liberica JDK
Built from OpenJDK, thoroughly tested and passed the JCK. (GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0)
OpenJ9
High performance, enterprise-calibre, flexibly licensed, openly-governed cross-platform JVM extending and augmenting the runtime technology components from the Eclipse OMR and OpenJDK project
- Open JDK
Open JDK community home. (GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0)
ParparVM
VM with non-blocking, concurrent GC for iOS. (GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0)
- RedHat Open JDK
RedHat's OpenJDK distribution. (GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0)
- SAP Machine
SAP's no-cost, rigorously tested and JCK-verified OpenJDK friendly fork. (GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0)
- Zulu
OpenJDK builds for Windows, Linux, and macOS. (GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0)
Microsoft JDK
Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, Free, Open Source, Freshly Brewed!
Projects / Logging
- Apache Log4j 2
Complete rewrite with a powerful plugin and configuration architecture
Echopraxia
API designed around structured logging, rich context, and conditional logging. There are Logback and Log4J2 implementations, but Echopraxia's API is completely dependency-free, meaning it can be implemented with any logging API
- Graylog
Open-source aggregator suited for extended role and permission management. (GPL-3.0-only)
- Kibana
Analyzes and visualizes log files. Some features require payment
- Logback
Robust logging library with interesting configuration options via Groovy
Logbook
Extensible, open-source library for HTTP request and response logging
- Logstash
Tool for managing log files
p6spy
Enables logging for all JDBC transactions without changes to the code
- SLF4J
Abstraction layer/simple logging facade
- tinylog
Lightweight logging framework with static logger class
OpenTracing Toolbox
Collection of libraries that build on top of OpenTracing and provide extensions and plugins to existing instrumentations
- Flogger
Flogger is a fluent logging API for Java. It supports a wide variety of features, and has many benefits over existing logging APIs
Projects / Machine Learning
- Apache Flink
Fast, reliable, large-scale data processing engine
- Apache Mahout
Scalable algorithms focused on collaborative filtering, clustering and classification
- DatumBox
Provides several algorithms and pre-trained models for natural language processing
- Deeplearning4j
Distributed and multi-threaded deep learning library
- DJL
High-level and engine-agnostic framework for deep learning
- H2O
Analytics engine for statistics over big data
Intelligent java
Seamlessly integrate with remote deep learning and language models programmatically
JSAT
Algorithms for pre-processing, classification, regression, and clustering with support for multi-threaded execution. (GPL-3.0-only)
m2cgen
CLI tool to transpile models into native code
Neureka
A lightweight, platform independent, OpenCL accelerated nd-array/tensor library
- oj! Algorithms
High-performance mathematics, linear algebra and optimisation needed for data science, machine learning and scientific computing
Oryx 2
Framework for building real-time, large-scale machine learning applications. Includes end-to-end applications for collaborative filtering, classification, regression, and clustering
Siddhi
Cloud native streaming and complex event processing engine
Smile
Statistical Machine Intelligence and Learning Engine provides a set of machine learning algorithms and a visualization library
- Tribuo
Provides tools for classification, regression, clustering, model development and interfaces with other libraries such as scikit-learn, pytorch and TensorFlow
- Weka
Collection of algorithms for data mining tasks ranging from pre-processing to visualization. (GPL-3.0-only)
Projects / Messaging
Aeron
Efficient, reliable, unicast and multicast message transport
- Apache ActiveMQ
Message broker that implements JMS and converts synchronous to asynchronous communication
- Apache Camel
Glues together different transport APIs via Enterprise Integration Patterns
- Apache Kafka
High-throughput distributed messaging system
- Apache Pulsar
Distributed pub/sub-messaging system
- Apache RocketMQ
Fast, reliable, and scalable distributed messaging platform
- Apache Qpid
Apache Qpid makes messaging tools that speak AMQP and support many languages and platforms
AutoMQ
AutoMQ is a cloud-native, serverless reinvented Kafka that is easily scalable, manage-less and cost-effective
Deezpatch
Simple, lightweight, and performant dispatch library for decoupling messages (requests and events) and message handlers
EventBus
Simple publish/subscribe event bus
- Hermes
Fast and reliable message broker built on top of Kafka
JeroMQ
Implementation of ZeroMQ
Nakadi
Provides a RESTful API on top of Kafka
RabbitMQ Java client
RabbitMQ client
Smack
Cross-platform XMPP client library
NATS client
NATS client
Projects / Microservice
- ActiveRPC
Lightweight and fast library for complex high-load distributed applications and Memcached-like solutions
Armeria
Asynchronous RPC/REST client/server library built on top of Java 8, Netty, HTTP/2, Thrift and gRPC
consul-api
Client for the Consul API: a distributed, highly available and datacenter-aware registry/discovery service
Eureka
REST-based service registry for resilient load balancing and failover
- Helidon
Two-style approach for writing microservices: Functional-reactive and as an implementation of MicroProfile
JDA
Wrapping of the Discord REST API and its WebSocket events
- KeenType
Modernized version of a Java-based implementation of the New Typesetting System, which was heavily based on Donald E. Knuth's original TeX
kubernetes-client
Client provides access to the full Kubernetes & OpenShift REST APIs via a fluent DSL
- Micronaut
Modern full-stack framework with focus on modularity, minimal memory footprint and startup time
- Nacos
Dynamic service discovery, configuration and service management platform for building cloud native applications
OpenAI-Java
Java libraries for using OpenAI's GPT-3 API
- Quarkus
Kubernetes stack tailored for the HotSpot and Graal VM
Sentinel
Flow control component enabling reliability, resilience and monitoring for microservices
Projects / Miscellaneous
AWS SDK for Java 2.0
Wrapper around AWS' API
CQEngine
Ultra-fast, SQL-like queries on Java collections
Design Patterns
Implementation and explanation of the most common design patterns
FF4J
Feature Flags for Java
FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition
No-nonsense implementation of FizzBuzz made by serious businessmen for serious business purposes. (No explicit license)
IP2Location.io Java SDK
Wrapper for the IP2Location.io Geolocation API and the IP2WHOIS domain WHOIS API
ISBN core
A small library that contains a representation object of ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 and tools to parse, validate and format one
J2ObjC
Java-to-Objective-C translator for porting Android libraries to iOS
- JBake
Static website generator
JBot
Framework for building chatbots. (GPL-3.0-only)
- JCuda
JCuda offers Java bindings for CUDA and CUDA-related libraries
Jimfs
In-memory file system
- JObfuscator
Source code obfuscator
- Joda-Money
Basic currency and money classes and algorithms not provided by the JDK
jOOX
Simple wrapper for the org.w3c.dom package, to allow for fluent XML document creation and manipulation with an API inspired by jQuery
- JPad
Snippet runner
jsweet
Source transpiler to TypeScript/JavaScript
Maven Wrapper
Analogue of Gradle Wrapper for Maven, allows building projects without installing maven
Membrane Service Proxy
Open-source, reverse-proxy framework
MinimalFTP
Lightweight, small and customizable FTP server
LittleProxy
High performance HTTP proxy atop Netty's event-based networking library
Modern Java - A Guide to Java 8
Popular Java 8 guide
Modernizer
Detect uses of legacy Java APIs
OctoLinker
Browser extension which allows to navigate through code on GitHub more efficiently
- OpenRefine
Tool for working with messy data: cleaning, transforming, extending it with web services and linking it to databases
PipelinR
Small utility library for using handlers and commands with pipelines
Polyglot for Maven
Extensions for Maven 3.3.1+ that allows writing the POM model in dialects other than XML
RR4J
RR4J is a tool that records java bytecode execution and later allows developers to replay locally
Simple Java Mail
Mailing with a clean and fluent API
Smooks
Framework for fragment-based message processing. (Apache-2.0 OR LGPL-3.0-or-later)
Svix
Library for the Svix API to send webhooks and verify signatures
- Togglz
Implementation of the Feature Toggles pattern
TypeTools
Tools for resolving generic types
XMLBeam
Processes XML by using annotations or XPath within code
yGuard
Obfuscation via renaming and shrinking
Projects / Mobile Development
- Codename One
Cross-platform solution for writing native mobile apps. (GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0)
- MobileUI
Cross-platform framework for developing mobile apps with native UI in Java and Kotlin
- Multi-OS Engine
Open-source, cross-platform engine to develop native mobile (iOS, Android, etc.) apps
Projects / Monitoring
Automon
Combines the power of AOP with monitoring and/or logging tools
Datadog
Modern monitoring & analytics
Dropwizard Metrics
Expose metrics via JMX or HTTP and send them to a database
Failsafe Actuator
Out of the box monitoring of Failsafe Circuit Breaker in Spring-Boot environment
- Glowroot
Open-source Java APM
HertzBeat
Real-time monitoring system with custom-monitor and agentless
hippo4j
Dynamic and observable thread pool framework
- inspectIT
Captures detailed run-time information via hooks that can be changed on the fly. It supports tracing over multiple systems via the OpenTracing API and can correlate the data with end user monitoring
- Instrumental
Real-time Java application performance monitoring. A commercial service with free development accounts
Jaeger client
Jaeger client
JavaMelody
Performance monitoring and profiling
jmxtrans
Connect to multiple JVMs and query them for their attributes via JMX. Its query language is based on JSON, which allows non-Java programmers to access the JVM attributes. Supports different output writes, including Graphite, Ganglia, and StatsD
- Jolokia
JMX over REST
Micrometer
Vendor-neutral metrics/observability facade for the most popular metrics/observability libraries
Micrometer Tracing
Vendor-neutral distributed tracing facade for the most popular tracer libraries
nudge4j
Remote developer console from the browser for Java 8 via bytecode injection
OpenTelemetry
Instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data to help you analyze your software’s performance and behavior
Pinpoint
Open-source APM tool
Prometheus
Provides a multi-dimensional data model, DSL, autonomous server nodes and much more
Sentry
Integration with , an application error tracking and performance analysis platform
SPM
Performance monitor with distributing transaction tracing for JVM apps
Stagemonitor
Open-source performance monitoring and transaction tracing for JVM apps
Sysmon
Lightweight platform monitoring tool for Java VMs
- zipkin
Distributed tracing system which gathers timing data needed to troubleshoot latency problems in microservice architectures
Projects / Native
Aparapi
Converts bytecode to OpenCL which allows execution on GPUs
JavaCPP
Provides efficient and easy access to native C++
JNA
Work with native libraries without writing JNI. Also provides interfaces to common system libraries
JNR
Work with native libraries without writing JNI. Also provides interfaces to common system libraries. Same goals as JNA, but faster, and serves as the basis for the upcoming
native-lib-loader
Native library loader for extracting and loading native libraries from Java
Projects / Natural Language Processing
CogCompNLP
Provides common annotators for plain text input. (Research and Academic Use License)
- CoreNLP
Provides a set of fundamental tools for tasks like tagging, named entity recognition, and sentiment analysis. (GPL-3.0-or-later)
- DKPro
Collection of reusable NLP tools for linguistic pre-processing, machine learning, lexical resources, etc
- LingPipe
Toolkit for tasks ranging from POS tagging to sentiment analysis
Projects / Networking
Commons-networking
Client for server-sent events (SSE)
Comsat
Integrates standard Java web-related APIs with Quasar fibers and actors
Dubbo
High-performance RPC framework
- Grizzly
NIO framework. Used as a network layer in Glassfish
gRPC
RPC framework based on protobuf and HTTP/2
KryoNet
Provides a clean and simple API for efficient TCP and UDP client/server network communication using NIO and Kryo
- MINA
Abstract, event-driven async I/O API for network operations over TCP/IP and UDP/IP via Java NIO
- Netty
Framework for building high-performance network applications
Drift
Easy-to-use, annotation-based library for creating Thrift clients and serializable types
ServiceTalk
Framework built on Netty with APIs tailored to specific protocols and support for multiple programming paradigms
sshj
Programmatically use SSH, SCP or SFTP
TLS Channel
Implements a ByteChannel interface over SSLEngine, enabling easy-to-use (socket-like) TLS
- Undertow
Web server providing both blocking and non-blocking APIs based on NIO. Used as a network layer in WildFly. (LGPL-2.1-only)
urnlib
Represent, parse and encode URNs, as in RFC 2141. (GPL-3.0-only)
Fluency
High throughput data ingestion logger to Fluentd and Fluent Bit
Projects / ORM
- Apache Cayenne
Provides a clean, static API for data access. Also includes a GUI Modeler for working with database mappings, and DB reverse engineering and generation
Doma
Database access framework that verifies and generates source code at compile time using annotation processing as well as native SQL templates called two-way SQL
- Ebean
Provides simple and fast data access
- EclipseLink
Supports a number of persistence standards: JPA, JAXB, JCA and SDO
- Hibernate
Robust and widely used, with an active community. (LGPL-2.1-only)
MyBatis
Couples objects with stored procedures or SQL statements
ObjectiveSql
ActiveRecord ORM for rapid development and convention over configuration
Permazen
Language-natural persistence layer
SimpleFlatMapper
Simple database and CSV mapper
Projects / PaaS
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS-based, with support for Tomcat and Jetty
- AWS Lambda
Serverless computation
- Google Cloud
Google's cloud infrastructure
- Heroku
Abstract computing environments
- Microsoft Azure
Microsoft's cloud infrastructure
- OpenShift
Provides additionally an on-premise solution
Projects / PDF
- Apache FOP
Creates PDFs from XSL-FO
- Apache PDFBox
Toolbox for creating and manipulating PDFs
- Dynamic Jasper
Abstraction layer to JasperReports. (LGPL-3.0-only)
DynamicReports
Simplifies JasperReports. (LGPL-3.0-only)
- Eclipse BIRT
Report engine for creating PDF and other formats (DOCX, XLSX, HTML, etc) using Eclipse-based visual editor
flyingsaucer
XML/XHTML and CSS 2.1 renderer. (LGPL-2.1-or-later)
- iText
Creates PDF files programmatically
- JasperReports
Complex reporting engine. (LGPL-3.0-only)
Open HTML to PDF
Properly supports modern PDF standards based on flyingsaucer and Apache PDFBox
OpenPDF
Open-source iText fork. (LGPL-3.0-only & MPL-2.0)
Tabula
Extracts tables from PDF files
Projects / Performance analysis
- fastThread
Analyze and visualize thread dumps with a free cloud-based upload interface
- GCeasy
Tool to analyze and visualize GC logs. It provides a free cloud-based upload interface
honest-profiler
Low-overhead, bias-free sampling profiler
jHiccup
Logs and records platform JVM stalls
JITWatch
Analyze the JIT compiler optimisations made by the HotSpot JVM
- JMH
Harness for building, running, and analysing nano/micro/milli/macro benchmarks written in Java and other languages targeting the JVM. (GPL-2.0 only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0)
LatencyUtils
Utilities for latency measurement and reporting
Projects / Platform
- BCEL
Byte Code Engineering Library - analyze, create, and manipulate Java class files
- BeanUtils
Easy-to-use wrappers around the Java reflection and introspection APIs
- BeanUtils2
Redesign of Commons BeanUtils
- BSF
Bean Scripting Framework - interface to scripting languages, including JSR-223
- Chain
Chain of Responsibility pattern implementation
- ClassScan
Find Class interfaces, methods, fields, and annotations without loading
- CLI
Command-line arguments parser
- CLI2
Redesign of Commons CLI
- Codec
General encoding/decoding algorithms, e.g. phonetic, base64 or URL
- Collections
Extends or augments the Java Collections Framework
- Compress
Defines an API for working with tar, zip and bzip2 files
- Configuration
Reading of configuration/preferences files in various formats
- Convert
Commons-Convert aims to provide a single library dedicated to the task of converting an object of one type to another
- CSV
Component for reading and writing comma separated value files
- Daemon
Alternative invocation mechanism for unix-daemon-like java code
- DBCP
Database connection pooling services
- DbUtils
JDBC helper library
- Digester
XML-to-Java-object mapping utility
- Email
Library for sending e-mail from Java
- Exec
API for dealing with external process execution and environment management in Java
- FileUpload
File upload capability for your servlets and web applications
- Finder
Java library inspired by the UNIX find command
- Flatfile
Java library for working with flat data structures
- Functor
Function that can be manipulated as an object, or an object representing a single, generic function
- Graph
General purpose graph APIs and algorithms
- I18n
Adds the feature of localized message bundles that consist of one or many localized texts that belong together
- Id
Id is a component used to generate identifiers
- Imaging
Image library
- IO
Collection of I/O utilities
- Javaflow
Continuation implementation to capture the state of the application
- JCI
Java Compiler Interface
- JCS
Java Caching System
- Jelly
XML based scripting and processing engine
- Jexl
Expression language which extends the Expression Language of the JSTL
- JNet
JNet allows to use dynamically register url stream handlers through the java.net API
- JXPath
Utilities for manipulating Java Beans using the XPath syntax
- Lang
Provides extra functionality for classes in java.lang
- Logging
Wrapper around a variety of logging API implementations
- Math
Lightweight, self-contained mathematics and statistics components
- Monitoring
Monitoring aims to provide a simple but extensible monitoring solution for Java applications
- Nabla
Nabla provides automatic differentiation classes that can generate derivative of any function implemented in the Java language
- Net
Collection of network utilities and protocol implementations
- OGNL
Object-graph navigation language
- OpenPGP
Interface to signing and verifying data using OpenPGP
- Performance
Small framework for microbenchmark clients, with implementations for Commons DBCP and Pool
- Pipeline
Provides a set of pipeline utilities designed around work queues that run in parallel to sequentially process data objects
- Pool
Generic object pooling component
- Proxy
Library for creating dynamic proxies
- RDF
Common implementation of RDF 1.1 that could be implemented by systems on the JVM
- RNG
Commons Rng provides implementations of pseudo-random numbers generators
- SCXML
Implementation of the State Chart XML specification aimed at creating and maintaining a Java SCXML engine
- Validator
Framework to define validators and validation rules in an xml file
- VFS
Virtual File System component for treating files, FTP, SMB, ZIP and such like as a single logical file system
- Weaver
Provides an easy way to enhance (weave) compiled bytecode
- CUBA Platform
High-level framework for developing enterprise applications with a rich web interface, based on Spring, EclipseLink and Vaadin
Light-4J
Fast, lightweight and productive microservices framework with built-in
Orienteer
Open-source business application platform for rapid configuration/development of CRM, ERP, LMS and other applications
- Spring
Provides many packages for dependency injection, aspect-oriented programming, security, etc
Projects / Processes
ch.vorburger.exec
Convenient API around Apache Commons Exec
zt-exec
Provides a unified API to Apache Commons Exec and ProcessBuilder
zt-process-killer
Stops processes started from Java or the system processes via PID
Projects / Reactive libraries
- Akka
Toolkit and runtime for building concurrent, distributed, fault-tolerant and event-driven applications
Reactive Streams
Provides a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non-blocking backpressure
Reactor
Library for building reactive fast-data applications
RxJava
Allows for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences
- vert.x
Polyglot event-driven application framework
Projects / REST Frameworks
Dropwizard
Opinionated framework for setting up modern web applications with Jetty, Jackson, Jersey and Metrics
- Elide
Opinionated framework for JSON- or GraphQL-APIs based on a JPA data model
- Jersey
JAX-RS reference implementation
Microserver
Convenient, extensible microservices plugin system for Spring & Spring Boot. With more than 30 plugins and growing, it supports both micro-monolith and pure microservices styles
- Rapidoid
Simple, secure and extremely fast framework consisting of an embedded HTTP server, GUI components and dependency injection
rest.li
Framework for building robust, scalable RESTful architectures using typesafe bindings and asynchronous, non-blocking IO with an end-to-end developer workflow that promotes clean practices, uniform interface design and consistent data modeling
- RESTEasy
Fully certified and portable implementation of the JAX-RS specification
RestExpress
Thin wrapper on the JBoss Netty HTTP stack that provides scaling and performance
Restlet Framework
Pioneering framework with powerful routing and filtering capabilities, and a unified client and server API
- Spark
Sinatra inspired framework
- Crnk
Implementation of the JSON API specification to build resource-oriented REST endpoints with sorting, filtering, paging, linking, object graphs, type-safety, bulk updates, integrations and more
springdoc-openapi
Automates the generation of API documentation using Spring Boot projects
- Swagger
Standard, language-agnostic interface to REST APIs
Projects / Science
- BioJava
Facilitates processing biological data by providing algorithms, file format parsers, sequencing and 3D visualization commonly used in bioinformatics
Chart-FX
Scientific charting library with focus on performance optimised real-time data visualisation at 25 Hz update rates for large data sets
- DataMelt
Environment for scientific computation, data analysis and data visualization. (GPL-3.0-or-later)
Erdos
Modular, light and easy graph framework for theoretic algorithms
- GraphStream
Library for modeling and analyzing dynamic graphs
- JFreeChart
2D chart library for Swing, JavaFX and server-side applications. (LGPL-2.1-only)
JGraphT
Graph library that provides mathematical graph-theory objects and algorithms
JGraphX
Library for visualizing (mainly Swing) and interacting with node-edge graphs
LogicNG
Library for creating, manipulating and solving Boolean and Pseudo-Boolean formulas
Mines Java Toolkit
Library for geophysical scientific computation, visualization and digital signal analysis
Morpheus
Provides a versatile two-dimensional memory efficient tabular data structure called a DataFrame to enable efficient in-memory analytics for scientific computing on the JVM
- Orekit
A low level space flight dynamics library providing basic elements (orbits, dates, attitude, frames...) and various algorithms (conversions, propagations, pointing...) to handle them
Orson-Charts
Generates a wide variety of 3D charts that can be displayed with Swing and JavaFX or exported to PDF, SVG, PNG and JPEG. (GPL-3.0-only)
Tablesaw
Includes a data-frame, an embedded column store, and hundreds of methods to transform, summarize, or filter data
XChart
Light-weight library for plotting data. Many customizable chart types are available
Projects / Search
- Apache Lucene
High-performance, full-featured, cross-platform, text search engine library
- Apache Solr
Enterprise search engine optimized for high-volume traffic
- Elasticsearch
Distributed, multitenant-capable, full-text search engine with a RESTful web interface and schema-free JSON documents
Indexer4j
Simple and light full text indexing and searching library
Projects / Security
- Apache Shiro
Performs authentication, authorization, cryptography and session management
- Bouncy Castle
All-purpose cryptographic library and JCA provider offering a wide range of functions, from basic helpers to PGP/SMIME operations
DependencyCheck
Detects publicly disclosed vulnerabilities contained within a project's dependencies
- Cryptomator
Multiplatform, transparent, client-side encryption of files in the cloud. (GPL-3.0-only)
Hdiv
Runtime application that repels application security risks included in the OWASP Top 10, including SQL injection, cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery, data tampering, and brute force attacks
jjwt
JSON web token for Java and Android
jwt-java
Easily create and parse JSON Web Tokens and create customized JWT validators using a fluent API
Jwks RSA
JSON Web Key Set parser
Kalium
Binding for the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library
- Keycloak
Integrated SSO and IDM for browser apps and RESTful web services
Keywhiz
System for distributing and managing secrets
Nbvcxz
Advanced password strength estimation
- OACC
Provides permission-based authorization services
OpenAM
Access management solution that includes authentication, SSO, authorization, federation, entitlements and web services security
OTP-Java
One-time password generator library according to RFC 4226 (HOTP) and RFC 6238 (TOTP)
pac4j
Security engine
- Passay
Enforce password policy by validating candidate passwords against a configurable rule set
Password4j
User-friendly cryptographic library that supports Argon2, Bcrypt, Scrypt, PBKDF2 and various other cryptographic hash functions
SecurityBuilder
Fluent Builder API for JCA and JSSE classes and especially X.509 certificates
SSLContext-Kickstart
High-level SSL context builder for configuring HTTP clients with SSL/TLS
Themis
Multi-platform high-level cryptographic library provides easy-to-use encryption for protecting sensitive data: secure messaging with forward secrecy, secure data storage (AES256GCM); suits for building end-to-end encrypted applications
Tink
Provides a simple and misuse-proof API for common cryptographic tasks
- Topaz
Fine-grained authorization for applications with support for RBAC, ABAC, and ReBAC
Projects / Serialization
FlatBuffers
Memory-efficient serialization library that can access serialized data without unpacking and parsing it
FST
JDK-compatible, high-performance object graph serialization
Fury
Blazing fast object graph serialization framework powered by JIT and zero-copy
Kryo
Fast and efficient object graph serialization framework
MessagePack
Efficient binary serialization format
PHP Serializer
Serializing objects in the PHP serialization format
Projects / Server
- Apache Tomcat
Robust, all-round server for Servlet and JSP
- Apache TomEE
Tomcat plus Java EE
- Jetty
Provides a Web server and javax.servlet container, plus support for HTTP/2, WebSocket, OSGi, JMX, JNDI, JAAS and many other integrations
nanohttpd
Tiny, easily embeddable HTTP server
- WildFly
Formerly known as JBoss and developed by Red Hat with extensive Java EE support. (LGPL-2.1-only)
Projects / Template Engine
- Freemarker
Library to generate text output (HTML web pages, e-mails, configuration files, source code, etc.) based on templates and changing data
- Handlebars.java
Logicless and semantic Mustache templates
Jade4J
Implementation of Pug (formerly known as Jade)
Jamal
Extendable template engine embedded into Maven/JavaDoc, supporting multiple extensions (Groovy, Ruby, JavaScript, JShell, PlantUml) with support for snippet handling
jstachio
Typesafe Mustache templating engine
jte
Compiles to classes, and uses an easy syntax, several features to make development easier and provides fast execution and a small footprint
Jtwig
Modular, configurable and fully tested template engine
- Pebble
Inspired by Twig and separates itself with its inheritance feature and its easy-to-read syntax. It ships with built-in autoescaping for security and it includes integrated support for internationalization
Rocker
Optimized, memory efficient and speedy template engine producing statically typed, plain objects
StringTemplate
Template engine for generating source code, web pages, emails, or any other formatted text output
- Thymeleaf
Aims to be a substitute for JSP and works for XML files
Projects / Testing
Awaitility
DSL for synchronizing asynchronous operations
ConcurrentUnit
Toolkit for testing multi-threaded and asynchronous applications
- GreenMail
In-memory email server for integration testing. Supports SMTP, POP3 and IMAP including SSL. (GPL-2.0-only)
Hoverfly Java
Native bindings for Hoverfly, a proxy which allows you to simulate HTTP services
Karate
DSL that combines API test-automation, mocks and performance-testing making testing REST/HTTP services easy
REST Assured
DSL for easy testing of REST/HTTP services
WebTau
Test across REST-API, Graph QL, Browser, Database, CLI and Business Logic with consistent set of matchers and concepts
Cucumber
Provides a way to describe features in a plain language which customers can understand
Cukes-REST
Collection of Gherkin steps for REST-service testing using Cucumber
J8Spec
Follows a Jasmine-like syntax
- JBehave
Extensively configurable framework that describes stories
- JGiven
Provides a fluent API which allows for simpler composition
Lamdba Behave
Aims to provide a fluent API to write tests in long and descriptive sentences that read like plain English
Serenity BDD
Automated Acceptance testing and reporting library that works with Cucumber, JBehave and JUnit to make it easier to write high quality executable specifications
Beanmother
Sets up beans from YAML fixtures
Datafaker
Modern fake data generator forked from Java Faker
Fixture Factory
Generates fake objects from a template
jFairy
Fake data generator
Instancio
Automates data setup in unit tests by generating fully-populated, reproducible objects. Includes JUnit 5 extension
Randomized Testing
JUnit test runner and plugins for running JUnit tests with pseudo-randomness
Java Faker
Port of Ruby's fake data generator
Mockneat
Another fake data generator
- Apache JMeter
Functional testing and performance measurements
- Arquillian
Integration and functional testing platform for Java EE containers
cdi-test
JUnit extension for easy and efficient testing of CDI components
- Citrus
Integration testing framework that focuses on both client- and server-side messaging
- Gatling
Load testing tool designed for ease of use, maintainability and high performance
- JUnit
Common testing framework
- jqwik
Engine for property-based testing built on JUnit 5
Pact JVM
Consumer-driven contract testing
- PIT
Fast mutation-testing framework for evaluating fault-detection abilities of existing JUnit or TestNG test suites
weld-testing
Set of test framework extensions (JUnit 4, JUnit 5, Spock) to enhance the testing of CDI components via Weld. Supports Weld 5
- AssertJ
Fluent assertions that improve readability
- Hamcrest
Matchers that can be combined to create flexible expressions of intent
- JSONAssert
Simplifies testing JSON strings
JsonUnit
Library that simplifies JSON comparison in tests
- Truth
Google's fluent assertion and proposition framework
XMLUnit
Simplifies testing for XML output
ConsoleCaptor
Captures console output for unit testing purposes
junit-dataprovider
TestNG-like data provider/runner for JUnit
LogCaptor
Captures log entries for unit testing purposes
log-capture
Captures log entries and provides assertions for unit and integration testing
Mutability Detector
Reports whether instances of a given class are immutable
- pojo-tester
Automatically performs tests on basic POJO methods. (LGPL-3.0-only)
raml-tester
Tests if a request/response matches a given RAML definition
Selfie
Snapshot testing (inline and on disk)
Testcontainers
Provides throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container
- JMockit
Integration testing, API mocking and faking, and code coverage
Mockito
Mocking framework that lets you write tests with a clean and simple API
- MockServer
Allows mocking of systems integrated with HTTPS
Moco
Concise web services for stubs and mocks
PowerMock
Mocks static methods, constructors, final classes and methods, private methods, and removal of static initializers
- WireMock
Stubs and mocks web services
EasyMock
EasyMock is a Java library that provides an easy way to use Mock Objects in unit testing
Projects / Utility
Arthas
Allows to troubleshoot production issues for applications without modifying code or restarting servers
bucket4j
Rate limiting library based on token-bucket algorithm
cactoos
Collection of object-oriented primitives
Chocotea
Generates postman collection, environment and integration tests from java code
- CRaSH
Provides a shell into a JVM that's running CRaSH. Used by Spring Boot and others. (LGPL-2.1-or-later)
Dex
Java/JavaFX tool capable of powerful ETL and data visualization
dregex
Regular expression engine that uses deterministic finite automata. It supports some Perl-style features and yet retains linear matching time, and also offers set operations
Embulk
Bulk data loader that helps data transfer between various databases, storages, file formats, and cloud services
fswatch
Micro library to watch for directory file system changes, simplifying java.nio.file.WatchService
Gephi
Cross-platform for visualizing and manipulating large graph networks. (GPL-3.0-only)
Guava
Collections, caching, primitives support, concurrency libraries, common annotations, string processing, I/O, and more
- JADE
Framework and environment for building and debugging multi-agent systems. (LGPL-2.0-only)
- Java Diff Utils
Utilities for text or data comparison and patching
JavaVerbalExpressions
Library that helps with constructing difficult regular expressions
- JGit
Lightweight, pure Java library implementing the Git version control system
JKScope
Java scope functions inspired by Kotlin
minio-java
Provides simple APIs to access any Amazon S3-compatible object storage server
- Protégé
Provides an ontology editor and a framework to build knowledge-based systems
Semver4j
Lightweight library that helps you handling semantic versioning with different modes
Underscore-java
Port of Underscore.js functions
Projects / Version Managers
Projects / Web Crawling
- Apache Nutch
Highly extensible, highly scalable web crawler for production environments
Crawler4j
Simple and lightweight web crawler
- jsoup
Scrapes, parses, manipulates and cleans HTML
- StormCrawler
SDK for building low-latency and scalable web crawlers
webmagic
Scalable crawler with downloading, url management, content extraction and persistent
Projects / Web Frameworks
- ActiveJ
Lightweight asynchronous framework built from the ground up for developing high-performance web applications
- Apache Tapestry
Component-oriented framework for creating dynamic, robust, highly scalable web applications
- Apache Wicket
Component-based web application framework similar to Tapestry, with a stateful GUI
Blade
Lightweight, modular framework that aims to be elegant and simple
- Bootique
Minimally opinionated framework for runnable apps
- Firefly
Asynchronous framework for rapid development of high-performance web application
- Javalin
Microframework for web applications
- Jooby
Scalable, fast and modular micro-framework that offers multiple programming models
- Ninja
Full-stack web framework
- Pippo
Small, highly modularized, Sinatra-like framework
- Play
Built on Akka, it provides predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) for highly-scalable applications in Java and Scala
- PrimeFaces
JSF framework with both free and commercial/support versions and frontend components
- Ratpack
Set of libraries that facilitate fast, efficient, evolvable and well-tested HTTP applications
Takes
Opinionated web framework which is built around the concepts of True Object-Oriented Programming and immutability
- Vaadin
Full-stack open-source Java framework that simplifies web app development. Build complex, interactive applications with Java alone, and enhance with TypeScript and React components, without needing deep JavaScript, CSS, or HTML expertise
Projects / Workflow Orchestration Engines
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Resources / Communities
- r/java
Subreddit for the Java community
- Stack Overflow
Question/answer platform
Resources / Frontends
Resources / Influential Books
Resources / Podcasts and Screencasts
- 140 Second Ducklings
Short videos on Twitter explaining Java debugging in depth
- Inside Java
(Official)
- The Java Posse
Discontinued as of 02/2015
Resources / People
- Adam Bien
Freelance author, JavaOne Rockstar speaker, consultant, Java Champion
- Aleksey Shipilëv
Performance geek, benchmarking czar, concurrency bug hunter
- Antonio Goncalves
Java Champion, JUG Leader, Devoxx France, Java EE 6/7, JCP, Author
- Arun Gupta
Java Champion, JavaOne Rockstar, JUG Leader, Devoxx4Kids-er, VP of Developer Advocacy at Couchbase
- Brian Goetz
Java Language Architect at Oracle
- Bruno Borges
Product Manager/Java Jock at Oracle
- Chris Engelbert
Open Source Enthusiast, Speaker, Developer, Developer Advocacy at TimescaleDB
- Chris Richardson
Software architect, consultant, and serial entrepreneur, Java Champion, JavaOne Rock Star, *POJOs in Action- author
- Ed Burns
Consulting Member of the Technical Staff at Oracle
- Eugen Paraschiv
Author of the Spring Security Course
- Heinz Kabutz
Java Champion, speaker, author of The Java Specialists' Newsletter, concurrency performance expert
- Holly Cummins
Technical Lead of IBM London's Bluemix Garage, Java Champion, developer, author, JavaOne rockstar
- James Weaver
Java/JavaFX/IoT developer, author and speaker
- Java EE
Official Java EE Twitter account
- Java Magazine
Official Java Magazine account
- Java
Official Java Twitter account
- Javin Paul
Well-known Java blogger
- Josh Long
Spring Advocate at Pivotal, author of O'Reilly's Cloud Native Java- and Building Microservices with Spring Boot, JavaOne Rock Star
- Lukas Eder
Java Champion, speaker, Founder and CEO Data Geekery (jOOQ)
- Mani Sarkar
Java champion, Polyglot, Software Crafter involved with @graalvm, AI/ML/DL, Data Science, Developer communities, speaker & blogger. Creator of couple of awesome lists like this one
- Mario Fusco
RedHatter, JUG coordinator, frequent speaker and author
- Mark Heckler
Pivotal Principal Technologist and Developer Advocate, conference speaker, published author, and Java Champion, focusing on Internet of Things and the cloud
- Mark Reinhold
Chief Architect, Java Platform Group, Oracle
- Markus Eisele
Java EE evangelist, Red Hat
- Martijn Verburg
London JUG co-leader, speaker, author, Java Champion and much more
- Martin Thompson
Pasty faced performance gangster
- Monica Beckwith
Performance consultant, JavaOne Rock Star
- OpenJDK
Official OpenJDK account
- Peter Lawrey
Peter Lawrey, Java performance expert
- Randy Shoup
Stitch Fix VP Engineering, speaker, JavaOne Rock Star
- Reza Rahman
Java EE/GlassFish/WebLogic evangelist, author, speaker, open source hacker
- Sander Mak
Java Champion, author
- Simon Maple
Java Champion, VirtualJUG founder, LJC leader, RebelLabs author
- Spencer Gibb
Software Engineer, Dad, Geek, Co-founder and Lead of Spring Cloud Core @pivotal
- Stephen Colebourne
Java Champion, speaker
- Trisha Gee
Java Champion and speaker
- Venkat Subramaniam
Author, University of Houston professor, MicroSoft MVP award recipient, JavaOne Rock Star, Java Champion
- Vlad Mihalcea
Java Champion working on Hypersistence Optimizer, database aficionado, author of High-Performance Java Persistence book
- Groundbreakers
Oracle ACEs, Groundbreaker Ambassadors and Java Champions
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