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Bean Mapping

  • Dozer - Mapper that copies data from one object to another using annotations and API or XML configuration.
  • MapStruct - Code generator that simplifies mappings between different bean types, based on a convention-over-configuration approach.

Build

  • Gradle - Incremental builds programmed via Groovy instead of declaring XML. Works well with Maven's dependency management.
  • 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.

Bytecode Manipulation

  • bytecode-viewer - Java 8 Jar & Android APK reverse engineering suite.
  • Javassist - Tries to simplify bytecode editing.
  • ASM - All-purpose, low-level bytecode manipulation and analysis.

CLI

  • iTerm2 - iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.12 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.
  • Oh My Zsh - Plugin-enabled framework for drastically more powerful zsh command line. Zsh is based on bash, but offers many improvements, oh-my-zsh is a popular, open-source project with active community support.
  • Homebrew - The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux).

Code Analysis

  • Checkstyle - Static analysis of coding conventions and standards.
  • Error Prone - Catches common programming mistakes as compile-time errors.
  • PMD - Source code analysis for finding bad coding practices.
  • SonarJava - Static analyzer for SonarQube & SonarLint.

Code Generators

  • Auto - Generates factory, service, and value classes.
  • Lombok - Code generator that aims to reduce verbosity.

Configuration

  • Typesafe Config - Powerful, yet simple, configuration library for JVM languages using HOCON (Human-Optimized Config Object Notation).
  • owner - Reduces boilerplate of properties.
  • config - Configuration library for JVM languages.

CSV

  • jackson-dataformat-csv - Jackson extension for reading and writing CSV.
  • uniVocity-parsers - One of the fastest and most feature-complete parsers. Also comes with parsers for TSV and fixed-width records.

Database

  • Querydsl - Typesafe unified queries.
  • Chronicle Map - Efficient, in-memory (opt. persisted to disk),
  • HikariCP - High-performance JDBC connection pool.
  • OrientDB - Embeddable distributed database written on top of Hazelcast.
  • H2 - Small SQL database notable for its in-memory functionality.
  • jOOQ - Generates typesafe code based on SQL schema.

Data Structures

  • Protobuf - Google's data interchange format.
  • SBE - Simple Binary Encoding, one of the fastest message formats around.
  • Apache Avro - Data interchange format with dynamic typing, untagged data, and absence of manually assigned IDs.
  • Apache Thrift - Data interchange format that originated at Facebook.

Dependency Injection

Development

  • Manifold - Re-energizes Java with powerful features like type-safe metaprogramming, structural typing and extension methods.
  • HotswapAgent - Unlimited runtime class and resource redefinition.
  • DCEVM - JVM modification that allows unlimited redefinition of loaded classes at runtime.

Distributed Applications

  • Quasar - Lightweight threads and actors for the JVM.
  • Atomix - Fault-tolerant distributed coordination framework.
  • Hystrix - Provides latency and fault tolerance.
  • JGroups - Toolkit for reliable messaging and cluster creation.
  • Apache Storm - Realtime computation system.
  • Apache ZooKeeper - Coordination service with distributed configuration, synchronization, and naming registry for large distributed systems.

Distribution

  • Bintray ![c - Version control for binaries that handle publishing. Compatible with Maven or Gradle, with a free plan for open-source software as well as several business plans.
  • packr - Packs JARs, assets and the JVM for native distribution on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
  • JitPack - Easy-to-use package repository for GitHub. Builds Maven/Gradle projects on demand and publishes ready-to-use packages.
  • 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.

Document Processing

  • Apache POI - Supports OOXML (XLSX, DOCX, PPTX) as well as OLE2 (XLS, DOC or PPT).

Functional Programming

  • 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.

Game Development

  • libGDX - All-round cross-platform, high-level framework.
  • LWJGL - Robust framework that abstracts libraries like OpenGL/CL/AL.

Geospatial

  • GraphHopper - Road-routing engine. Used as a Java library or standalone web service.
  • Spatial4j - General-purpose spatial/geospatial library.

GUI

  • JavaFX - The successor of Swing.

High Performance

HTTP Clients

  • Play WS - Typesafe client with reactive streams and caching.

IDE

  • Visual Studio Code - Provides Java support for lightweight projects with a simple, modern workflow by using extensions from the internal marketplace.
  • Eclipse - Established open-source project with support for lots of plugins and languages.
  • NetBeans - Provides integration for several Java SE and EE features, from database access to HTML5.

JSON

  • Gson - Serializes objects to JSON and vice versa. Good performance with on-the-fly usage.
  • Jackson - Similar to GSON, but offers performance gains if you need to instantiate the library more often.
  • Jackson-datatype-money - Open-source Jackson module to support JSON serialization and deserialization of JavaMoney data types.

JVM and JDK

Logging

  • Kibana - Analyzes and visualizes log files. Some features require payment.
  • Logstash - Tool for managing log files.
  • SLF4J - Abstraction layer/simple logging facade.
  • Logback - Robust logging library with interesting configuration options via Groovy.

Machine Learning

  • Apache Spark - Data analytics cluster-computing framework.

Messaging

  • Aeron - Efficient, reliable, unicast and multicast message transport.
  • EventBus - Simple publish/subscribe event bus.
  • JeroMQ - Implementation of ZeroMQ.
  • RabbitMQ Java client - RabbitMQ client.
  • Smack - Cross-platform XMPP client library.
  • 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.

Miscellaneous

  • JavaCV - Java interface to OpenCV, FFmpeg, and more.
  • Java Object Diff - Compare Java objects with a very usable out-of-the-box configuration.
  • Maven Wrapper - Analogue of Gradle Wrapper for Maven, allows building projects without installing maven.
  • Polyglot for Maven - Extensions for Maven 3.3.1+ that allows writing the POM model in dialects other than XML.
  • Codename One - Cross-platform solution for writing native mobile apps.

Native

  • 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 Project Panama.

Networking

  • Finagle - Extensible RPC system for constructing high-concurrency servers. It implements uniform client and server APIs for several protocols, and is protocol-agnostic to simplify implementation of new protocols.
  • 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.

ORM

PaaS

  • Jelastic ![c - Supports Tomcat, Jetty, GlassFish, JBoss, TomEE and WildFly.
  • Heroku ![c - Abstract computing environments.

Performance analysis

  • JMH - a Java harness for building, running, and analysing nano/micro/milli/macro benchmarks written in Java and other languages targeting the JVM.

Processes

  • zt-exec - Provides a unified API to Apache Commons Exec and ProcessBuilder.

Reactive libraries

  • RxJava - Allows for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences.
  • Akka - Toolkit and runtime for building concurrent, distributed, fault-tolerant and event-driven applications.
  • vert.x - Polyglot event-driven application framework.

REST Frameworks

  • Swagger - Standard, language-agnostic interface to REST APIs.

Science

  • XChart - A light-weight library for plotting data. Many customizable chart types are available.

Security

  • Bouncy Castle - All-purpose cryptographic library and JCA provider offering a wide range of functions, from basic helpers to PGP/SMIME operations.
  • Apache Shiro - Performs authentication, authorization, cryptography and session management.

Serialization

  • 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.

Server

Testing

  • Cucumber - Provides a way to describe features in a plain language which customers can understand.
  • Beanmother - Sets up beans from YAML fixtures.
  • Fixture Factory - Generates fake objects from a template.
  • JFairy - Fake data generator.
  • Randomized Testing - JUnit test runner and plugins for running JUnit tests with pseudo-randomness.
  • Java Faker - A port of Ruby's fake data generator.
  • JMockit - Integration testing, API mocking and faking, and code coverage.
  • Mockito - Mocking framework that lets you write tests with a clean and simple API.
  • Arquillian - Integration and functional testing platform for Java EE containers.

Utility

  • Guava - Collections, caching, primitives support, concurrency libraries, common annotations, string processing, I/O, and more.
  • Gephi - Cross-platform for visualizing and manipulating large graph networks.
  • JGit - A lightweight, pure Java library implementing the Git version control system.

Version Control

  • Tortoise HG - A free and functional client for Mercurial (Hg).
  • Fork - A cross-platform, powerful, and intuitive git GUI client that is FREE.

Version Managers

  • jabba - Java Version Manager inspired by nvm. Supports Mac OS X, Linux and Windows.

Web Crawling

  • jsoup - Scrapes, parses, manipulates and cleans HTML.

Web Frameworks

  • Play - Built on Akka, it provides predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) for highly-scalable applications in Java and Scala.