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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

  • ANTLR

    Complex full-featured framework for top-down parsing

  • JavaCC

    Parser generator that generates top-down parsers. Allows lexical state switching and permits extended BNF specifications

  • JFlex

    Lexical analyzer generator

Projects / Computer Vision

  • BoofCV

    Library for image processing, camera calibration, tracking, SFM, MVS, 3D vision, QR Code and much more

  • ImageJ

    Medical image processing application with an API

  • JavaCV

    Java interface to OpenCV, FFmpeg, and much more

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

  • Cassandre

    Trading bot framework

  • Parity

    Platform for trading venues

  • Philadelphia

    Low-latency financial information exchange

  • Square

    Integration with the Square API

  • Stripe

    Integration with the Stripe API

  • ta4j

    Library for technical analysis

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

  • hate

    Builds hypermedia-friendly objects according to HAL specification

  • JSON-LD

    JSON-LD implementation

  • Siren4J

    Library for the Siren specification

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

  • 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

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

  • 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

  • jabba

    Java Version Manager inspired by nvm. Supports macOS, Linux and Windows

  • jenv

    Java Version Manager inspired by rbenv. Can configure globally or per project. Tested on Debian and macOS

  • SDKMan

    Java Version Manager inspired by RVM and rbenv. Supports UNIX-based platforms and Windows

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

  • Cadence

    Stateful code platform from Uber

  • flowable

    Compact and efficient workflow and business process management platform

  • Temporal

    Microservice orchestration platform, forked from Cadence but gRPC based

Resources / Communities

Resources / Frontends

Resources / Influential Books

Resources / Podcasts and Screencasts

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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