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Architecture 2

Bean Mapping 7

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.

Build 4

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.

Bytecode Manipulation 10

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.

Caching 4

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.

CLI 9

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 [Turbo Vision](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision).

Text-IO

Aids the creation of full console-based applications.

Lanterna

Easy console text-GUI library, similar to curses. (LGPL-3.0-only)

Code Analysis 12

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)

Code Coverage 3

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.

Code Generators 14

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 ![c

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 ![c

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.

Compiler-compiler 3

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.

Computer Vision 3

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.

Configuration 12

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.

Constraint Satisfaction Problem Solver 4

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.

CSV 5

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.

Data Structures 12

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.

Database 38

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.

Date and Time 4

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)

Dependency Injection 8

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)

Development 10

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.

Distributed Applications 14

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.

Distributed Transactions 4

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.

Distribution 13

Artipie

Binary artifact management toolkit which hosts them on the file system or S3.

Boxfuse ![c

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 ![c

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 ![c

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.

Document Processing 5

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.

Financial 6

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.

Formal Verification 7

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)

Functional Programming 8

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.

Game Development 9

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.

vulkan4j

Vulkan, OpenGL ES2 and GLFW Memory Allocator bindings.

Geospatial 9

Apache SIS

Library for developing geospatial applications.

ArcGIS Maps SDK for Java ![c

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.

GUI 4

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.

High Performance 7

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.

HTTP Clients 10

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.

Hypermedia Types 4

hate

Builds hypermedia-friendly objects according to HAL specification.

JSON-LD

JSON-LD implementation.

Siren4J

Library for the Siren specification.

Spring HATEOAS

Standalone and Spring support for building hypermedia-based APIs using HAL, HAL FORMS, Collection+JSON, ALPS and UBER.

IDE 6

Eclipse

Established open-source project with support for lots of plugins and languages.

IntelliJ IDEA ![c

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.

Imagery 8

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.

vips-ffm

Comprehensive bindings for libvips, using Java's "Foreign Function & Memory" API.

scrimage

Immutable, functional, and performant JVM library for manipulation of images.

Introspection 6

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.

Job Scheduling 7

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.

JSON 17

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

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.

JVM and JDK 13

Which JDK

Overview of common JVMs with pros and cons.

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!

Logging 12

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.

Machine Learning 16

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 ![c

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)

Messaging 16

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.

Microservice 13

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.

Miscellaneous 36

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![c

Source code obfuscator.

Joda-Money

Basic currency and money classes and algorithms not provided by the JDK.

jOOX

Simple wrapper for the org.w3c.dom package, to allow for fluent XML document creation and manipulation with an API inspired by jQuery.

JPad

Snippet runner.

jsweet

Source transpiler to TypeScript/JavaScript.

Maven Wrapper

Analogue of Gradle Wrapper for Maven, allows building projects without installing maven.

Membrane Service Proxy

Open-source, reverse-proxy framework.

MinimalFTP

Lightweight, small and customizable FTP server.

LittleProxy

High performance HTTP proxy atop Netty's event-based networking library.

Modern Java - A Guide to Java 8

Popular Java 8 guide.

Modernizer

Detect uses of legacy Java APIs.

OctoLinker

Browser extension which allows to navigate through code on GitHub more efficiently.

OpenRefine

Tool for working with messy data: cleaning, transforming, extending it with web services and linking it to databases.

PipelinR

Small utility library for using handlers and commands with pipelines.

Polyglot for Maven

Extensions for Maven 3.3.1+ that allows writing the POM model in dialects other than XML.

RR4J

RR4J is a tool that records java bytecode execution and later allows developers to replay locally.

Simple Java Mail

Mailing with a clean and fluent API.

Smooks

Framework for fragment-based message processing. (Apache-2.0 OR LGPL-3.0-or-later)

Svix

Library for the Svix API to send webhooks and verify signatures.

Togglz

Implementation of the Feature Toggles pattern.

TypeTools

Tools for resolving generic types.

webcam-capture

Library for using built-in and external webcams directly in Java.

XMLBeam

Processes XML by using annotations or XPath within code.

yGuard

Obfuscation via renaming and shrinking.

Mobile Development 3

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.

Monitoring 24

Automon

Combines the power of AOP with monitoring and/or logging tools.

Datadog ![c

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 ![c

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 ![c

Integration with [Sentry](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry), an application error tracking and performance analysis platform.

SPM ![c

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.

Native 5

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 [Project Panama](http://openjdk.java.net/projects/panama).

native-lib-loader

Native library loader for extracting and loading native libraries from Java.

Natural Language Processing 4

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.

Networking 15

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.

ORM 10

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.

MyBatis-Plus

An powerful enhanced toolkit of MyBatis for simplify development.

ObjectiveSql

ActiveRecord ORM for rapid development and convention over configuration.

Permazen

Language-natural persistence layer.

SimpleFlatMapper

Simple database and CSV mapper.

PaaS 6

AWS Elastic Beanstalk ![c

AWS-based, with support for Tomcat and Jetty.

AWS Lambda ![c

Serverless computation.

Google Cloud ![c

Google's cloud infrastructure.

Heroku ![c

Abstract computing environments.

Microsoft Azure ![c

Microsoft's cloud infrastructure.

OpenShift ![c

Provides additionally an on-premise solution.

PDF 11

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 ![c

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.

Performance analysis 7

fastThread ![c

Analyze and visualize thread dumps with a free cloud-based upload interface.

GCeasy ![c

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.

Platform 58

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 [security](https://github.com/networknt/light-oauth2/).

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.

Processes 3

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.

Reactive libraries 5

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.

REST Frameworks 13

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.

Science 15

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.

Search 4

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.

Security 23

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.

Serialization 6

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.

Server 5

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)

Template Engine 11

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.

Testing 55

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.

AutoParams

Supports generating test data or combining scenarios for parameterized tests.

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.

Utility 20

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.

Version Managers 3

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.

Web Crawling 5

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.

Web Frameworks 15

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.

Awesome Annotation Processing

Awesome Graal

Awesome Gradle Plugins

Awesome J2ME

AwesomeJavaFX

Awesome JVM

Awesome Microservices

Useful Java Links

Java Concurrency Checklist

Java Developer Roadmap

Communities 2

r/java

Subreddit for the Java community.

Stack Overflow

Question/answer platform.

Frontends 1

java.libhunt.com

Influential Books 7

Core Java Volume I--Fundamentals

Core Java, Volume II--Advanced Features

Effective Java (3rd Edition)

Head First Java (3rd Edition)

Java Concurrency in Practice

The Well-Grounded Java Developer (2nd Edition)

Thinking in Java

Podcasts and Screencasts 6

140 Second Ducklings

Short videos on Twitter explaining Java debugging in depth.

A Bootiful Podcast

Discontinued as of 02/2015.

People 35

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

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.

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.

Awesome Java Navigator

Architecture 2

Bean Mapping 7

Build 4

Bytecode Manipulation 10

Caching 4

CLI 9

Code Analysis 12

Code Coverage 3

Code Generators 14

Compiler-compiler 3

Computer Vision 3

Configuration 12

Constraint Satisfaction Problem Solver 4

CSV 5

Data Structures 12

Database 38

Date and Time 4

Dependency Injection 8

Development 10

Distributed Applications 14

Distributed Transactions 4

Distribution 13

Document Processing 5

Financial 6

Formal Verification 7

Functional Programming 8

Game Development 9

Geospatial 9

GUI 4

High Performance 7

HTTP Clients 10

Hypermedia Types 4

IDE 6

Imagery 8

Introspection 6

Job Scheduling 7

JSON 17

JVM and JDK 13

Logging 12

Machine Learning 16

Messaging 16

Microservice 13

Miscellaneous 36

Mobile Development 3

Monitoring 24

Native 5

Natural Language Processing 4

Networking 15

ORM 10

PaaS 6

PDF 11

Performance analysis 7

Platform 58

Processes 3

Reactive libraries 5

REST Frameworks 13

Science 15

Search 4

Security 23

Serialization 6

Server 5

Template Engine 11

Testing 55

Utility 20

Version Managers 3

Web Crawling 5

Web Frameworks 15

Related Awesome Lists 14

Communities 2

Frontends 1

Influential Books 7

Podcasts and Screencasts 6

People 35