awesome-java
A curated list of awesome frameworks, libraries and software for the Java programming language.
https://github.com/akullpp/awesome-java
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Resources
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Frontends
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Websites
- foojay.io
- InfoQ
- Java Algorithms and Clients
- Java, SQL, and jOOQ
- Javalobby
- JavaWorld
- JAXenter
- RebelLabs
- TheServerSide.com
- Vanilla Java
- Voxxed
- Baeldung
- Dzone
- Google Java Style
- foojay.io
- InfoQ
- Java, SQL, and jOOQ
- Javalobby
- Java Algorithms and Clients
- JavaWorld
- JAXenter
- Java.net
- OverOps Blog
- Voxxed
- Java Weekly
- RebelLabs
- Vanilla Java
- Baeldung
- Dzone
- TheServerSide.com
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Podcasts and Screencasts
- 140 Second Ducklings - Short videos on Twitter explaining Java debugging in depth.
- A Bootiful Podcast
- Inside Java
- Java Off Heap
- The Java Posse - Discontinued as of 02/2015.
- 140 Second Ducklings - Short videos on Twitter explaining Java debugging in depth.
- A Bootiful Podcast
- Inside Java
- Java Off Heap
- Foojay Podcast
- The Java Posse - Discontinued as of 02/2015.
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People
- 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 Magazine - Official Java Magazine 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.
- Sander Mak - Java Champion, author.
- Simon Maple - Java Champion, VirtualJUG founder, LJC leader, RebelLabs author.
- Chris Engelbert - Open Source Enthusiast, Speaker, Developer, Developer Advocacy at TimescaleDB.
- 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.
- Javin Paul - Well-known Java blogger.
- Mario Fusco - RedHatter, JUG coordinator, frequent speaker and author.
- Spencer Gibb - Software Engineer, Dad, Geek, Co-founder and Lead of Spring Cloud Core @pivotal.
- 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.
- Ed Burns - Consulting Member of the Technical Staff at Oracle.
- Eugen Paraschiv - Author of the Spring Security Course.
- Java - Official Java Twitter account.
- Monica Beckwith - Performance consultant, JavaOne Rock Star.
- OpenJDK - Official OpenJDK account.
- Randy Shoup - Stitch Fix VP Engineering, speaker, JavaOne Rock Star.
- Reza Rahman - Java EE/GlassFish/WebLogic evangelist, author, speaker, open source hacker.
- Trisha Gee - Java Champion and speaker.
- Venkat Subramaniam - Author, University of Houston professor, MicroSoft MVP award recipient, JavaOne Rock Star, Java Champion.
- Aleksey Shipilëv - Performance geek, benchmarking czar, concurrency bug hunter.
- Bruno Borges - Product Manager/Java Jock at Oracle.
- James Weaver - Java/JavaFX/IoT developer, author and speaker.
- Mark Heckler - Pivotal Principal Technologist and Developer Advocate, conference speaker, published author, and Java Champion, focusing on Internet of Things and the cloud.
- Arun Gupta - Java Champion, JavaOne Rockstar, JUG Leader, Devoxx4Kids-er, VP of Developer Advocacy at Couchbase.
- Brian Goetz - Java Language Architect at Oracle.
- Chris Richardson - Software architect, consultant, and serial entrepreneur, Java Champion, JavaOne Rock Star, \*POJOs in Action- author.
- Holly Cummins - Technical Lead of IBM London's Bluemix Garage, Java Champion, developer, author, JavaOne rockstar.
- 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).
- Markus Eisele - Java EE evangelist, Red Hat.
- Martin Thompson - Pasty faced performance gangster.
- Stephen Colebourne - Java Champion, speaker.
- Vlad Mihalcea - Java Champion working on Hypersistence Optimizer, database aficionado, author of High-Performance Java Persistence book.
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Related Awesome Lists
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Communities
- r/java - Subreddit for the Java community.
- Stack Overflow - Question/answer platform.
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Influential Books
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Projects
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Bytecode Manipulation
- ASM - All-purpose, low-level bytecode manipulation and analysis.
- Byte Buddy - Further simplifies bytecode generation with a fluent API.
- Perses - Dynamically injects failure/latency at the bytecode level according to principles of chaos engineering.
- 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.
- ASM - All-purpose, low-level bytecode manipulation and analysis.
- Byte Buddy - Further simplifies bytecode generation with a fluent API.
- Byteman - Manipulate bytecode at runtime via DSL (rules); mainly for testing/troubleshooting. (LGPL-2.1-or-later)
- bytecode-viewer - Java 8 Jar & Android APK reverse engineering suite. (GPL-3.0-only)
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Caching
- cache2k - In-memory high performance caching library.
- Ehcache - Distributed general-purpose cache.
- Infinispan - Highly concurrent key/value datastore used for caching.
- Caffeine - High-performance, near-optimal caching library.
- cache2k - In-memory high performance caching library.
- Infinispan - Highly concurrent key/value datastore used for caching.
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CLI
- JCommander - Command-line argument-parsing framework with custom types and validation via implementing interfaces.
- picocli - ANSI colors and styles in usage help with annotation-based POSIX/GNU/any syntax, subcommands, strong typing for both options and positional args.
- 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 [Turbo Vision](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision).
- Lanterna - Easy console text-GUI library, similar to curses. (LGPL-3.0-only)
- Airline - Annotation-based framework for parsing Git-like command-line arguments.
- JLine - Includes features from modern shells like completion or history.
- Jansi - ANSI escape codes to format console output.
- Text-IO - Aids the creation of full console-based applications.
- jbock - Reflectionless command line parser.
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Cluster Management
- Apache Aurora - Mesos framework for long-running services and cron jobs.
- Singularity - Mesos framework that makes deployment and operations easy. It supports web services, background workers, scheduled jobs, and one-off tasks.
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Code Analysis
- jQAssistant - Static code analysis with Neo4J-based query language. (GPL-3.0-only)
- PMD - Source code analysis for finding bad coding practices.
- 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.
- p3c - Provides Alibaba's coding guidelines for PMD, IDEA and Eclipse.
- SonarJava - Static analyzer for SonarQube & SonarLint. (LGPL-3.0-only)
- Spoon - Library for analyzing and transforming Java source code.
- RefactorFirst - Identifies and prioritizes God Classes and Highly Coupled classes.
- jQAssistant - Static code analysis with Neo4J-based query language. (GPL-3.0-only)
- NullAway - Eliminates NullPointerExceptions with low build-time overhead.
- Spotbugs - Static analysis of bytecode to find potential bugs. (LGPL-2.1-only)
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Code Generators
- Bootify , an application error tracking and performance analysis platform.
- SPM .
- Logging - Wrapper around a variety of logging API implementations.
- 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.
- Spring - Provides many packages for dependency injection, aspect-oriented programming, security, etc.
- CSV - Component for reading and writing comma separated value files.
- Email - Library for sending e-mail from Java.
- IO - Collection of I/O utilities.
- Lang - Provides extra functionality for classes in java.lang.
- 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.
- 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.
- Orienteer - Open-source business application platform for rapid configuration/development of CRM, ERP, LMS and other applications.
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REST Frameworks
- Jersey - JAX-RS reference implementation.
- Elide - Opinionated framework for JSON- or GraphQL-APIs based on a JPA data model.
- Rapidoid - Simple, secure and extremely fast framework consisting of an embedded HTTP server, GUI components and dependency injection.
- RESTEasy - Fully certified and portable implementation of the JAX-RS specification.
- 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.
- Swagger - Standard, language-agnostic interface to REST APIs.
- RestExpress - Thin wrapper on the JBoss Netty HTTP stack that provides scaling and performance.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Elide - Opinionated framework for JSON- or GraphQL-APIs based on a JPA data model.
- Jersey - JAX-RS reference implementation.
- Rapidoid - Simple, secure and extremely fast framework consisting of an embedded HTTP server, GUI components and dependency injection.
- RESTEasy - Fully certified and portable implementation of the JAX-RS specification.
- Spark - Sinatra inspired framework.
- Swagger - Standard, language-agnostic interface to REST APIs.
- Dropwizard - Opinionated framework for setting up modern web applications with Jetty, Jackson, Jersey and Metrics.
- 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.
- 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.
- Restlet Framework - Pioneering framework with powerful routing and filtering capabilities, and a unified client and server API.
- 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.
- openapi-generator - Allows generation of API client libraries, SDKs, server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec.
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Reactive libraries
- Akka - Toolkit and runtime for building concurrent, distributed, fault-tolerant and event-driven applications.
- RxJava - Allows for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences.
- vert.x - Polyglot event-driven application framework.
- 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 - A framework for building non-blocking applications on the JVM, providing support for reactive programming.
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Science
- 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.
- BioJava - Facilitates processing biological data by providing algorithms, file format parsers, sequencing and 3D visualization commonly used in bioinformatics.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- GraphStream - Library for modeling and analyzing dynamic graphs.
- JFreeChart - 2D chart library for Swing, JavaFX and server-side applications. (LGPL-2.1-only)
- 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.
- 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)
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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.
- Elasticsearch - Distributed, multitenant-capable, full-text search engine with a RESTful web interface and schema-free JSON documents.
- Apache Lucene - High-performance, full-featured, cross-platform, text search engine library.
- Apache Solr - Enterprise search engine optimized for high-volume traffic.
- Indexer4j - Simple and light full text indexing and searching library.
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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.
- Keycloak - Integrated SSO and IDM for browser apps and RESTful web services.
- OACC - Provides permission-based authorization services.
- Passay - Enforce password policy by validating candidate passwords against a configurable rule set.
- Topaz - Fine-grained authorization for applications with support for RBAC, ABAC, and ReBAC.
- Jwks RSA - JSON Web Key Set parser.
- Kalium - Binding for the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library.
- Keywhiz - System for distributing and managing secrets.
- Nbvcxz - Advanced password strength estimation.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tink - Provides a simple and misuse-proof API for common cryptographic tasks.
- OACC - Provides permission-based authorization services.
- 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.
- Keycloak - Integrated SSO and IDM for browser apps and RESTful web services.
- Apache Shiro - Performs authentication, authorization, cryptography and session management.
- Cryptomator - Multiplatform, transparent, client-side encryption of files in the cloud. (GPL-3.0-only)
- Passay - Enforce password policy by validating candidate passwords against a configurable rule set.
- Topaz - Fine-grained authorization for applications with support for RBAC, ABAC, and ReBAC.
- Ayza - High-level SSL configuration builder for configuring HTTP clients and servers with SSL/TLS.
- 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.
- jwt-java - Easily create and parse JSON Web Tokens and create customized JWT validators using a fluent API.
- 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.
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Server
- Apache Tomcat - Robust, all-round server for Servlet and JSP.
- Apache TomEE - Tomcat plus Java EE.
- WildFly - Formerly known as JBoss and developed by Red Hat with extensive Java EE support. (LGPL-2.1-only)
- nanohttpd - Tiny, easily embeddable HTTP 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.
- WildFly - Formerly known as JBoss and developed by Red Hat with extensive Java EE support. (LGPL-2.1-only)
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Template Engine
- Freemarker - Library to generate text output (HTML web pages, e-mails, configuration files, source code, etc.) based on templates and changing data.
- 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.
- Thymeleaf - Aims to be a substitute for JSP and works for XML files.
- Jade4J - Implementation of Pug (formerly known as Jade).
- jstachio - Typesafe Mustache templating engine.
- Handlebars.java - Logicless and semantic Mustache templates.
- 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.
- Rocker - Optimized, memory efficient and speedy template engine producing statically typed, plain objects.
- Freemarker - Library to generate text output (HTML web pages, e-mails, configuration files, source code, etc.) based on templates and changing data.
- 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.
- Thymeleaf - Aims to be a substitute for JSP and works for XML files.
- Jamal - Extendable template engine embedded into Maven/JavaDoc, supporting multiple extensions (Groovy, Ruby, JavaScript, JShell, PlantUml) with support for snippet handling.
- StringTemplate - Template engine for generating source code, web pages, emails, or any other formatted text output.
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Testing
- JGiven - Provides a fluent API which allows for simpler composition.
- Apache JMeter - Functional testing and performance measurements.
- Arquillian - Integration and functional testing platform for Java EE containers.
- Citrus - Integration testing framework that focuses on both client- and server-side messaging.
- JUnit - Common testing framework.
- jqwik - Engine for property-based testing built on JUnit 5.
- PIT - Fast mutation-testing framework for evaluating fault-detection abilities of existing JUnit or TestNG test suites.
- Hamcrest - Matchers that can be combined to create flexible expressions of intent.
- Truth - Google's fluent assertion and proposition framework.
- pojo-tester - Automatically performs tests on basic POJO methods. (LGPL-3.0-only)
- JMockit - Integration testing, API mocking and faking, and code coverage.
- MockServer - Allows mocking of systems integrated with HTTPS.
- WireMock - Stubs and mocks web services.
- REST Assured - DSL for easy testing of REST/HTTP services.
- EasyMock - EasyMock is a Java library that provides an easy way to use Mock Objects in unit testing.
- Pact JVM - Consumer-driven contract testing.
- Karate - DSL that combines API test-automation, mocks and performance-testing making testing REST/HTTP services easy.
- 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.
- cdi-test - JUnit extension for easy and efficient testing of CDI components.
- selenium - Browser automation framework and ecosystem.
- AssertJ - Fluent assertions that improve readability.
- 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.
- raml-tester - Tests if a request/response matches a given RAML definition.
- Selfie - Snapshot testing (inline and on disk).
- JMeter DSL.java - Load tests with JMeter as simple as a JUnit test.
- JMockit - Integration testing, API mocking and faking, and code coverage.
- Mockito - Mocking framework that lets you write tests with a clean and simple API.
- Moco - Concise web services for stubs and mocks.
- PowerMock - Mocks static methods, constructors, final classes and methods, private methods, and removal of static initializers.
- JSONAssert - Simplifies testing JSON strings.
- JUnit - Common testing framework.
- weld-testing - Set of test framework extensions (JUnit 4, JUnit 5, Spock) to enhance the testing of CDI components via Weld. Supports Weld 5.
- Awaitility - DSL for synchronizing asynchronous operations.
- 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.
- AutoParams - Supports generating test data or combining scenarios for parameterized tests.
- Beanmother - Sets up beans from YAML fixtures.
- JBehave - Extensively configurable framework that describes stories.
- JGiven - Provides a fluent API which allows for simpler composition.
- Apache JMeter - Functional testing and performance measurements.
- Arquillian - Integration and functional testing platform for Java EE containers.
- 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.
- jqwik - Engine for property-based testing built on JUnit 5.
- PIT - Fast mutation-testing framework for evaluating fault-detection abilities of existing JUnit or TestNG test suites.
- Hamcrest - Matchers that can be combined to create flexible expressions of intent.
- JSONAssert - Simplifies testing JSON strings.
- Truth - Google's fluent assertion and proposition framework.
- pojo-tester - Automatically performs tests on basic POJO methods. (LGPL-3.0-only)
- MockServer - Allows mocking of systems integrated with HTTPS.
- WireMock - Stubs and mocks web services.
- 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.
- 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.
- Lamdba Behave - Aims to provide a fluent API to write tests in long and descriptive sentences that read like plain English.
- Datafaker - Modern fake data generator forked from Java Faker.
- Fixture Factory - Generates fake objects from a template.
- JMock - JMock is a high-performance data generation and simulation component library implemented in Java.
- JsonUnit - Library that simplifies JSON comparison in tests.
- XMLUnit - Simplifies testing for XML output.
- ConsoleCaptor - Captures console output for unit testing purposes.
- junit-dataprovider - TestNG-like data provider/runner for JUnit.
- junit-pioneer - JUnit 5 extension pack, pushing the frontiers on Jupiter.
- Stebz - Multi-approach framework for test steps managing.
- Testcontainers - Provides throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.
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Utility
- Protégé - Provides an ontology editor and a framework to build knowledge-based systems.
- bucket4j - Rate limiting library based on token-bucket algorithm.
- 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.
- 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)
- Javadoc Publisher - Generate Javadoc from your maven/gradle project and deploy it automatically on GitHub Page.
- 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.
- Arthas - Allows to troubleshoot production issues for applications without modifying code or restarting servers.
- 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.
- Embulk - Bulk data loader that helps data transfer between various databases, storages, file formats, and cloud services.
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Web Crawling
- Apache Nutch - Highly extensible, highly scalable web crawler for production environments.
- jsoup - Scrapes, parses, manipulates and cleans HTML.
- webmagic - Scalable crawler with downloading, url management, content extraction and persistent.
- Apache Nutch - Highly extensible, highly scalable web crawler for production environments.
- StormCrawler - SDK for building low-latency and scalable web crawlers.
- Crawler4j - Simple and lightweight web crawler.
- jsoup - Scrapes, parses, manipulates and cleans HTML.
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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.
- Bootique - Minimally opinionated framework for runnable apps.
- Firefly - Asynchronous framework for rapid development of high-performance web application.
- 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.
- Vaadin - Event-driven framework that uses standard web components. Server-side architecture with Ajax on the client side.
- PrimeFaces - JSF framework with both free and commercial/support versions and frontend components.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bootique - Minimally opinionated framework for runnable apps.
- Firefly - Asynchronous framework for rapid development of high-performance web application.
- Javalin - Microframework for web applications.
- Pippo - Small, highly modularized, Sinatra-like framework.
- Jooby - Scalable, fast and modular micro-framework that offers multiple programming models.
- Ninja - Full-stack web framework.
- Play - Built on Akka, it provides predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) for highly-scalable applications in Java and Scala.
- Ratpack - Set of libraries that facilitate fast, efficient, evolvable and well-tested HTTP applications.
- Blade - Lightweight, modular framework that aims to be elegant and simple.
- Takes - Opinionated web framework which is built around the concepts of True Object-Oriented Programming and immutability.
- WebForms Core - A technology for managing HTML tags from the server.
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Workflow Orchestration Engines
- Cadence - Stateful code platform from Uber.
- Temporal - Microservice orchestration platform, forked from Cadence but gRPC based.
- 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.
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Artificial Intelligence
- LangChain4j - Simplifies integration of LLMs with unified APIs and a comprehensive toolbox.
- simple-openai - Library to use the OpenAI API (and compatible ones) in the simplest possible way.
- MCP Java SDK - Enables applications to interact with AI models and tools through a standardized interface (i.e. Model Context Protocol), supporting both synchronous and asynchronous communication patterns.
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Bean Mapping
- 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.
- 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.
- Selma - Annotation processor-based bean mapper.
- Orika - JavaBean-mapping framework that recursively copies (among other capabilities) data from one object to another.
- 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.
- reMap - Lambda and method handle-based mapping which requires code and not annotations if objects have different names.
- Selma - Annotation processor-based bean mapper.
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Build
- Buck - Encourages the creation of small, reusable modules consisting of code and resources.
- Bazel - Tool from Google that builds code quickly and reliably.
- Gradle - Incremental builds programmed via Groovy instead of declaring XML. Works well with Maven's dependency management.
- Buck2 - Encourages the creation of small, reusable modules consisting of code and resources.
- 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.
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High Performance
- Eclipse Collections - Collections framework inspired by Smalltalk.
- HPPC - Primitive collections.
- Disruptor - Inter-thread messaging library.
- JCTools - Concurrency tools currently missing from the JDK.
- Koloboke - Carefully designed extension of the Java Collections Framework with primitive specializations and more.
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Serialization
- Fury - Blazing fast object graph serialization framework powered by JIT and zero-copy.
- FlatBuffers - Memory-efficient serialization library that can access serialized data without unpacking and parsing it.
- Kryo - Fast and efficient object graph serialization framework.
- MessagePack - Efficient binary serialization format.
- Fury - Blazing fast object graph serialization framework powered by JIT and zero-copy.
- PHP Serializer - Serializing objects in the PHP serialization format.
- FST - JDK-compatible, high-performance object graph serialization.
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Architecture
- jMolecules - Annotations and interfaces to express design and architecture concepts in code.
- ArchUnit - Test library for specifying and asserting architecture rules.
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Cloud
- Google Cloud Client Libraries - Client libraries for accessing Google Cloud services from Java applications.
- AWS SDK for Java - Provides Java APIs for interacting with Amazon Web Services.
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Native
- Aparapi - Converts bytecode to OpenCL which allows execution on GPUs.
- JavaCPP - Provides efficient and easy access to native C++.
- native-lib-loader - Native library loader for extracting and loading native libraries from Java.
- 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 [Project Panama](http://openjdk.java.net/projects/panama).
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Date and Time
- iCal4j - Parse and build iCalendar [RFC 5545](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545) 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)
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Functional Programming
- Cyclops - Monad and stream utilities, comprehensions, pattern matching, functional extensions for all JDK collections, future streams, trampolines and much more.
- Functional Java - Implements numerous basic and advanced programming abstractions that assist composition-oriented development.
- 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.
- 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.
- Packrat - Gatherers library for Java Stream API. Gatherers can enhance streams with custom intermediate operations.
- protonpack - Collection of stream utilities.
- StreamEx - Enhances Java 8 Streams.
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Imagery
- 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.
- vips-ffm - Comprehensive bindings for libvips, using Java's "Foreign Function & Memory" API.
- scrimage - Immutable, functional, and performant JVM library for manipulation of images.
- Barcode-Lib4J - Generates QR Code, DataMatrix, and other 1D/2D barcodes as vector (PDF, EPS, SVG) and raster (PNG, BMP, JPG) images with DPI awareness, high precision, and CMYK color model support.
- 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.
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Job Scheduling
- Sundial - Lightweight framework to simply define jobs, define triggers and start the scheduler.
- 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.
- Wisp - Simple library with minimal footprint and straightforward API.
- 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.
- 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.
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Hypermedia Types
- Siren4J - Library for the Siren specification.
- hate - Builds hypermedia-friendly objects according to HAL specification.
- JSON-LD - JSON-LD implementation.
- Spring HATEOAS - Standalone and Spring support for building hypermedia-based APIs using HAL, HAL FORMS, Collection+JSON, ALPS and UBER.
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Pathfinding
- Pathetic - A highly configurable 3D A* pathfinding library that uses specific optimizations for high performance.
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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.
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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.
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