Links

Annotations

Book

Common Java Cookbook

Cache

Ehcache is a widely used java distributed cache for general purpose caching.

Class Loading/Lifecycle

JavaRebel reloads changes to Java classes on-the-fly without redeploy or restart including new methods and fields.
OSGi Service Platform

Console

JLine is a Java library for handling console input.

Crawler

JoBo is a simple program to download complete websites to your local computer.
Smart and Simple Web Crawler
Heritrix is the Internet Archive’s open-source, extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler project.
HTTrack is a free and easy-to-use offline browser utility.

Cryptography

http://www.bouncycastle.org/ The Legion of the Bouncy Castle
Jasypt Java Simplified Encryption.
http://code.google.com/p/keyczar/ Toolkit for safe and simple cryptography (http://keyczar.org)..

Sample - Java and .NET interoperability

Crypto interop between .NET & Java (copy of blog entry by
Charles Prakash Dasari
- sample-bouncy-castle-aes
- sample-crypto-interop-java

Note: Both projects produce the same results using the Rijndael/AESalgorithm.

CSV

http://supercsv.sourceforge.net/
http://fixedformat4j.ancientprogramming.com/ Fixedformat4j is an easy to use Java framework for working with flat fixed formatted text files.

Database

JDBC
Refactoring, ../database/links
SQL Server, ../microsoft/sql-server
http://code.google.com/p/jlynx-persistence-framework/ jlynx-persistence-framework, Thin, lite, fast persistence.
The iBATIS Data Mapper provides a very simple and flexible means of moving data between your Java and .NET objects and a relational database.
DbVisualizer from Minq Software
jDBI is designed to provide convenient tabular data access.
http://schemaspy.sourceforge.net/ SchemaSpy, Graphical Database Schema Metadata Browser Also see SchemaSpyGUI.
LiquiBase, Getting Started
Database version and migration framework for Java inspired by Rails ActiveMigration
http://jailer.sourceforge.net/ Jailer is a tool for database subsetting and sampling, schema browsing, and rendering.

Date and Time

http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/ Joda-Time provides a quality replacement for the Java date and time classes.

email

http://james.apache.org/mime4j/ mime4j can also be used to build a tree representation of an e-mail message using the Message class.

Encryption

http://www.jasypt.org/ Java Simplified Encryption

File

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mime-util/ Detect file mime types based on file extension and magic numbers…

Game

http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/ jME (jMonkey Engine) is a high performance scene graph based graphics API.

IBM Tools

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/java
HeapAnalyzer A graphical tool for discovering possible Java heap leaks.
HeapRoots A tool for debugging memory leaks in Java applications through analysis of heap dumps.

Integration

Facebook

Getting Started with the Facebook Platform API

Google

Google Links, Links

JBI

Sun Java EE Engine: Bridging Java EE Web Services and JBI Components
https://fuji.dev.java.net/ Project Fuji forms the core component of Open ESB.

Installer

https://openinstaller.dev.java.net/
New Java Installer Framework: The Screenshots
See Maven Links, ../maven/links, Plugins, Installer for NSIS Plugin.
http://raproducts.org/wordpress/software JavaRa is a simple tool that does a simple job: it removes old and redundant versions of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE).

Imaging

Java Advanced Imaging For more information: Maven repository notes, ../../info/computers/slinky/maven-repository.

JSON

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format.
http://json-lib.sourceforge.net/ JSON-lib is a java library for transforming beans, maps, collections, java arrays and XML to JSON and back again to beans.
Processing, JSON & The New York Times

JSP

JSP - Create Custom Tags

LDAP

LDAP Basics With Java

Learning

Go Ahead: Next Generation Java Programming Style

Messaging

Metadata

Grunk (for GRammar UNderstanding Kernel) is a library for parsing and extracting structured metadata from semi-structured text formats.

Office

Aspose, The .NET and Java component publisher!
JODConverter, the Java OpenDocument Converter, converts documents between different office formats using OpenOffice.org.

Excel

OpenXLS Java Spreadsheet SDK
OpenOffice.org API - Spreadsheet Documents:
Generating Spreadsheets from Java using Open Office
ActiveXLS - spreadsheet component for .NET and Java
ExtenXLS Java Spreadsheet SDK
http://jxll.sourceforge.net/ JXLL Excel Addin Interaction Library

Monitoring

VisualVM is a visual tool that integrates several existing JDK software tools and lightweight memory and CPU profiling capabilities.
Java run-time monitoring, Part 1: Run-time performance and availability monitoring for Java systems.

PDF

footprint a set of tools for generating signed PDF documents.

Process

Quality

RSS

Sample Code

Security

Discovering Java Security Requirements.
http://juliusdavies.ca/commons-ssl/ Not-Yet-Commons-SSL.
http://jsecurity.org/ JSecurity is a powerful and flexible open-source Java security framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise session management and cryptography.
http://waffle.codeplex.com/ Windows Authentication Functional Framework (LE).

jBCrypt

Single Sign On

http://www.ja-sig.org/products/cas/ Central Authentication Service, Single Sign-On for the web. Also see Spring Security, ../spring/security

Serialization

Alternative to properties file: YAML beans Also see XStream (below).

Service

commons daemon can be used to run executables or java applications as windows service or UNIX daemon.
Java Service Wrapper, ../howto/java-service-wrapper/links

Spell Check

The Java Open Source Spell Checker For Maven instructions: Maven repository notes, ../../info/computers/slinky/maven-repository
http://jortho.sourceforge.net/ JOrtho (Java Orthography) is an Open Source spell-checker entirely written in Java.
jSpellCorrect - It’s a simple statistical spelling corrector.

Spider

See Crawler heading (above).

Standards

Swing

Components

MiG Calendar (Commercial)

Visualisation

JUNG - the Java Universal Network/Graph Framework
http://www.ubietylab.net/ubigraph/ UbiGraph is a tool for visualizing dynamic graphs.

Testing

http://code.google.com/p/mockito/ simpler & better mocking…
https://mock-javamail.dev.java.net/ Mock test infrastructure for Javamail code.
http://www.jmock.org/ (04/06/2008 Recommended by Eddie - “Good for business objects…”)
http://www.easymock.org/
- Easier testing with EasyMock
http://grinder.sourceforge.net/ Load Testing Framework (25/06/2008 Recommended by Eddie)
https://tcpmon.dev.java.net/ tcpmon: An open-source utility to Monitor A TCP Connection
http://mockftpserver.sourceforge.net/ MockFtpServer project provides a mock/dummy FTP server implementation.

Text Processing

http://www.stringtemplate.org/ StringTemplate is a java template engine (with ports for C# and Python) for generating source code, web pages, emails, or any other formatted text output.
http://velocity.apache.org/