List of Java software and tools

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This is a list of software and programming tools for the Java programming language, which includes frameworks, libraries, IDEs, build tools, application servers, and related projects.

Java frameworks

Libraries

Apache Ant — build automation tool
Apache Batik — SVG processing
Apache Cayenne — object-relational mapping
Apache Xerces – collection of software libraries for parsing, validating, serializing and manipulating XML.
Applet — applet API
Ardor3D — 3D graphics engine
Bonita BPM — workflow engine
Cassowary — constraint solving
Checkstyle — static code analysis
GNU Classpath — standard library implementation
Colt — scientific computing and technical computing
Commons Daemon — manages applications as daemons
DESMO-J — discrete event simulation
Diagrams.net — diagramming
Disruptor — high-performance messaging
Dom4j — XML processing
Dynamic Languages Toolkit — support for dynamic programming languages on the JVM
Echo — GUI
Flying Saucer — XHTML/CSS rendering
Formatting Objects Processor — XSL-FO to PDF
H2 Database Engine — relational database
IAIK-JCE — cryptography
Internet Foundation Classes — legacy GUI
JavaBeans – reusable component architecture for enabling encapsulation, events, and properties for software components
JavaCC – open-source parser generator and lexical analyzer
Java Class Library — standard library of Java and other JVM languages
Java Native Access – provides Java programs easy access to native shared libraries without using the Java Native Interface
Javolution — real-time computing
Jblas — linear algebra
JDBCFacade — simplifies JDBC usage
JExcel — Excel API
JFugue — music programming
JMusic — music programming
Joget Workflow — workflow engine
JOOQ Object Oriented Querying — fluent API for SQL
JPOS — financial messaging
JUNG — open-source graph modeling and visualization
LanguageWare — language processing
LibGDX — game development
Modular Audio Recognition Framework — collection of voice, sound, speech, text and natural language processing algorithms.
ASM — bytecode manipulation
Open Inventor — 3D graphics
OpenPDF — PDF
Parallel Colt — parallel computing
Parboiled — parser
PlayN — game development
QOCA — constraint solving
QtJambi — Qt bindings
SLF4J — logging
StableUpdate — update management
SWT — GUI
SuanShu — numerical computing
SwingLabs — GUI extensions
UBY — natural language processing
Undecimber — calendar
XDoclet — attribute-oriented programming
XINS — XML network services
XStream — object serialization

Machine learning and AI

Apache Mahout — scalable machine learning library focused on clustering, classification, and collaborative filtering
Apache MXNet — deep learning framework with Java API support
Apache OpenNLP – machine learning based toolkit for the processing of natural language text
Deeplearning4j — distributed deep learning library
Deep Java Library – open-source deep learning framework developed by Amazon Web Services
Encog — framework for neural networks, genetic algorithms, Hidden Markov model, and Bayesian networks.
LIBSVM — Support Vector Machine implementation
Mallet — machine learning toolkit for classification, clustering, and topic modeling.
MLlib – distributed machine-learning framework on top of Apache Spark Core
Neuroph — lightweight neural network framework
Weka — collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining
Yooreeka — machine learning^[1]

Data mining

Java Data Mining (JDM) — standard Java API for data mining
Massive Online Analysis (MOA) – data stream mining with concept drift

Math and scientific libraries

Apache Commons Math — general-purpose mathematics library including statistics, linear algebra, and optimization.
Colt — high-performance scientific computing, including linear algebra and random numbers.
Efficient Java Matrix Library (EJML) — dense and sparse matrix computations and linear algebra
Easy Java Simulations – Open Source Physics project designed to create discrete computer simulations
Exp4j — evaluates mathematical expressions at runtime
GroovyLab – numerical computational environment
Hipparchus — fork of Apache Commons Math with updated algorithms for statistics, linear algebra, and optimization.
JAMA – numerical linear algebra library
Jblas: Linear Algebra for Java (Jblas) — linear algebra library using native BLAS/LAPACK bindings
Java Astrodynamics Toolkit – numerical library of software components for use in spaceflight applications for Java or MATLAB
Matrix Toolkit Java (MTJ) — linear algebra library with BLAS and LAPACK support
OjAlgo — optimization, linear algebra, and financial calculations.
OptimJ — extension for mathematical optimization and constraint programming
Parallel Colt – A parallel extension of Colt
SuanShu — numerical analysis, linear algebra, statistics, and optimization.^[2]

Integrated development environments

See also: Java IDEs on Wikibooks

Android Studio — IDE for Google's Android operating system
BlueJ — educational IDE for teaching Java
DrJava — lightweight Java IDE for beginners
Eclipse IDE — open-source IDE with extensive plugin ecosystem
Greenfoot – educational IDE
IntelliJ IDEA — commercial and community editions from JetBrains
JDeveloper – freeware IDE supplied by Oracle Corporation
jGRASP – software visualizations
MyEclipse – Java EE IDE
NetBeans IDE — Apache NetBeans
Visual Studio Code — general-purpose editor with Java extensions^[3]

Online IDEs

Text editors with Java support

Build tools and package managers

Apache Ant – automating software build
Apache Ivy — subproject of Apache Ant
Apache Maven — build automation and dependency management
Boot — build automation for Clojure
CMake — build tool with limited support for java^[4]
Gradle — modern build automation tool
Go continuous delivery (GoCD) — continuous delivery and build automation server
Jenkins – automation server continuous delivery
JitPack — package repository for Git projects
Leiningen — build automation for Clojure
Simple build tool (sbt) – open-source build tool
Spring Roo – rapid application development of Java-based enterprise software
WaveMaker – low-code development platform^[5]

Java runtimes, compilers and virtual machines

Android Runtime — runtime environment
javac — Java programming language compiler
Java Virtual Machine (JVM) — virtual machine that executes Java bytecode
JD Decompiler
JEB decompiler – disassembler and decompiler software for Android applications
GraalVM — Just-in-time compilation
HotSpot — JVM implementation included in OpenJDK

JVM languages and dialects

Clojure — Lisp dialect
Groovy
JRuby — Ruby implementation
Jython — Python implementation
Kotlin — popular for Android app development^[6]
Renjin — R implementation
Scala^[7]

Application servers and containers

Apache Geronimo — open source application server
Apache MINA — event-driven asynchronous network application framework
Apache Tomcat — web container and web server
Apache TomEE — Apache Tomcat with Java EE features
Borland Enterprise Server — discontinued application server by Borland
ColdFusion — commercial application server by Adobe Systems
GlassFish — application server for Jakarta EE
IBM WebSphere Application Server — enterprise application server by IBM
IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition — open source edition of WebSphere (discontinued)
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform — Red Hat’s supported distribution of JBoss/WildFly
JEUS — commercial Java EE application server from TmaxSoft
Jetty — HTTP server and web container
Lucee (formerly Railo) — open source CFML application server
Netty — non-blocking I/O client–server framework for network applications
Oracle Containers for J2EE — discontinued application server by Oracle
Oracle WebLogic Server — enterprise application server by Oracle
Orion Application Server — early commercial Java EE server by IronFlare
Payara Server — fork of GlassFish for production use
Resin — Java application server by Caucho (open source and professional editions)
SAP NetWeaver Application Server — enterprise application server by SAP
WildFly — application server^[8]

Debugging and profiling tools

jdb — Java debugger bundled with the JDK^[9]
JConsole — JMX-compliant monitoring tool
JDK Flight Recorder — method profiling, allocation profiling, and garbage collection related events.
JProfiler — commercial Java profiler^[10]
VisualVM — visual tool integrating commandline JDK tools for profiling and monitoring

Testing and quality assurance

Apache JMeter – load testing tool
JaCoCo — Java code coverage library
JArchitect — analyzes code quality, architecture, and dependencies.
Jtest – software testing and static analysis
JUnit — unit testing framework
Mockito – open-source testing framework for Java
PMD – static program analysis source code analyzer
Selenium — browser automation for web app testing
Spock – test framework
SpotBugs (formerly FindBugs) — static analysis tool
TestNG — testing framework inspired by JUnit and NUnit^[11]

Other

Apache XMLBeans – Java-to-XML binding framework
DashO — code obfuscator, compactor, optimizer, watermarker.
Java (software platform) — software platform for developing application software
Java KeyStore – repository for TLS encryption
JRipples – change impact analysis
ProGuard — open-source obfuscator and optimizer
SableCC – open-source compiler generator
Semmle – code analysis
SofCheck Inspector – static analysis tool

External links

References

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