Awesome Java Projects

This is a list of repositories sorted by GitHub stars.

Bean Mapping

Frameworks that ease bean mapping.

6561 Stars

MapStruct

Code generator that simplifies mappings between different bean types, based on a convention-over-configuration approach.

2186 Stars

ModelMapper

Intelligent object mapping library that automatically maps objects to each other.

1274 Stars

Orika

JavaBean-mapping framework that recursively copies (among other capabilities) data from one object to another.

214 Stars

JMapper

Uses byte code manipulation for lightning-fast mapping. Supports annotations and API or XML configuration.

210 Stars

Selma

Annotation processor-based bean mapper.

114 Stars

reMap

Lambda and method handle-based mapping which requires code and not annotations if objects have different names.

81 Stars

dOOv

Provides fluent API for typesafe domain model validation and mapping. It uses annotations, code generation and a type safe DSL to make bean validation and mapping fast and easy.

Build

Tools that handle the build cycle and dependencies of an application.

21697 Stars

Bazel

Tool from Google that builds code quickly and reliably.

15512 Stars

Gradle

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

8562 Stars

Buck

Encourages the creation of small, reusable modules consisting of code and resources.

3961 Stars

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

Libraries to manipulate bytecode programmatically.

14085 Stars

bytecode-viewer

Java 8 Jar & Android APK reverse engineering suite. (GPL-3.0-only)

5840 Stars

Byte Buddy

Further simplifies bytecode generation with a fluent API.

5338 Stars

Recaf

JVM reverse engineering toolkit, essentially an IDE for Java bytecode.

4689 Stars

cglib

Bytecode generation library.

3949 Stars

Javassist

Tries to simplify bytecode editing.

1258 Stars

Mixin

Manipulate bytecode at runtime using real Java code.

463 Stars

Byteman

Manipulate bytecode at runtime via DSL (rules); mainly for testing/troubleshooting. (LGPL-2.1-or-later)

65 Stars

Perses

Dynamically injects failure/latency at the bytecode level according to principles of chaos engineering.

41 Stars

Maker

Provides low level bytecode generation.

Caching

Libraries that provide caching facilities.

14571 Stars

Caffeine

High-performance, near-optimal caching library.

1922 Stars

Ehcache

Distributed general-purpose cache.

1090 Stars

Infinispan

Highly concurrent key/value datastore used for caching.

697 Stars

cache2k

In-memory high performance caching library.

CLI

Libraries for everything related to the CLI.

4512 Stars

picocli

ANSI colors and styles in usage help with annotation-based POSIX/GNU/any syntax, subcommands, strong typing for both options and positional args.

2129 Stars

Lanterna

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

1894 Stars

JCommander

Command-line argument-parsing framework with custom types and validation via implementing interfaces.

1322 Stars

JLine

Includes features from modern shells like completion or history.

1049 Stars

Jansi

ANSI escape codes to format console output.

849 Stars

Airline

Annotation-based framework for parsing Git-like command-line arguments.

762 Stars

args4j

Small library to parse command-line arguments.

461 Stars

ASCII Table

Library to draw tables in ASCII.

337 Stars

JOpt Simple

Fluent parser that uses the POSIX#getopt and GNU#getopt_long syntaxes.

316 Stars

Text-IO

Aids the creation of full console-based applications.

151 Stars

Java ASCII Render

Graphical primitives for the console.

78 Stars

jbock

Reflectionless command line parser.

Cluster Management

Frameworks that can dynamically manage applications inside of a cluster.

817 Stars

Singularity

Mesos framework that makes deployment and operations easy. It supports web services, background workers, scheduled jobs, and one-off tasks.

631 Stars

Apache Aurora

Mesos framework for long-running services and cron jobs.

Code Analysis

Tools that provide metrics and quality measurements.

29805 Stars

p3c

Provides Alibaba's coding guidelines for PMD, IDEA and Eclipse.

14481 Stars

Infer

Modern static analysis tool for verifying the correctness of code.

7952 Stars

Checkstyle

Static analysis of coding conventions and standards. (LGPL-2.1-or-later)

6623 Stars

Error Prone

Catches common programming mistakes as compile-time errors.

4495 Stars

PMD

Source code analysis for finding bad coding practices.

3446 Stars

NullAway

Eliminates NullPointerExceptions with low build-time overhead.

3231 Stars

Spotbugs

Static analysis of bytecode to find potential bugs. (LGPL-2.1-only)

1595 Stars

Spoon

Library for analyzing and transforming Java source code.

1053 Stars

SonarJava

Static analyzer for SonarQube & SonarLint. (LGPL-3.0-only)

320 Stars

RefactorFirst

Identifies and prioritizes God Classes and Highly Coupled classes.

184 Stars

jQAssistant

Static code analysis with Neo4J-based query language. (GPL-3.0-only)

151 Stars

Error Prone Support

Error Prone extensions: extra bug checkers and a large battery of Refaster templates.

Code Coverage

Frameworks and tools that enable code coverage metrics collection for test suites.

3872 Stars

JaCoCo

Framework that enables collection of code coverage metrics, using both offline and runtime bytecode instrumentation.

1001 Stars

Cobertura

Relies on offline (or static) bytecode instrumentation and class loading to collect code coverage metrics. (GPL-2.0-only)

53 Stars

Clover

Relies on source-code instrumentation instead of bytecode instrumentation.

Code Generators

Tools that generate patterns for repetitive code in order to reduce verbosity and error-proneness.

21009 Stars

JHipster

Yeoman source code generator for Spring Boot and AngularJS.

12362 Stars

Lombok

Code generator that aims to reduce verbosity.

10532 Stars

JavaPoet

API to generate source files.

10276 Stars

Auto

Generates factory, service, and value classes.

3342 Stars

Immutables

Annotation processors to generate simple, safe and consistent value objects.

815 Stars

FreeBuilder

Automatically generates the Builder pattern.

552 Stars

Record-Builder

Companion builder class, withers and templates for Java records.

147 Stars

Telosys

Simple and light code generator available as an Eclipse Plugin and also as a CLI.

138 Stars

Joda-Beans

Small framework that adds queryable properties to Java, enhancing JavaBeans.

137 Stars

ADT4J

JSR-269 code generator for algebraic data types.

125 Stars

Geci

Discovers files that need generated code, updates automatically and writes to the source with a convenient API.

56 Stars

Avaje Http Server

Generates Lightweight JAX-RS style http servers using Javalin or Helidon (Nima) SE.

0 Stars

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.

Compiler-compiler

Frameworks that help to create parsers, interpreters or compilers.

15650 Stars

ANTLR

Complex full-featured framework for top-down parsing.

1104 Stars

JavaCC

Parser generator that generates top-down parsers. Allows lexical state switching and permits extended BNF specifications.

553 Stars

JFlex

Lexical analyzer generator.

Computer Vision

Libraries which seek to gain high level information from images and videos.

7024 Stars

JavaCV

Java interface to OpenCV, FFmpeg, and much more.

1007 Stars

BoofCV

Library for image processing, camera calibration, tracking, SFM, MVS, 3D vision, QR Code and much more.

411 Stars

ImageJ

Medical image processing application with an API.

Configuration

Libraries that provide external configuration.

6030 Stars

config

Configuration library supporting Java properties, JSON or its human optimized superset HOCON.

3026 Stars

Curator Framework

High-level API for Apache ZooKeeper.

901 Stars

owner

Reduces boilerplate of properties.

561 Stars

centraldogma

Highly-available version-controlled service configuration repository based on Git, ZooKeeper and HTTP/2.

550 Stars

cfg4j

Modern configuration library for distributed apps written in Java.

317 Stars

Configurate

Configuration library with support for various configuration formats and transformations.

289 Stars

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.

59 Stars

KAConf

Annotation-based configuration system for Java and Kotlin.

44 Stars

dotenv

Twelve-factor configuration library which uses environment-specific files.

33 Stars

avaje config

Loads yaml and properties files, supports dynamic configuration, plugins, file-watching and config event listeners.

23 Stars

Externalized Properties

Lightweight yet powerful configuration library which supports resolution of properties from external sources and an extensible post-processing/conversion mechanism.

Constraint Satisfaction Problem Solver

Libraries that help with implementing optimization and satisfiability problems.

651 Stars

Choco

Off-the-shelf constraint satisfaction problem solver that uses constraint programming techniques.

429 Stars

Timefold

Flexible solver with Spring/Quarkus support and quickstarts for the Vehicle Routing Problem, Maintenance Scheduling, Employee Shift Scheduling and much more.

213 Stars

JaCoP

Includes an interface for the FlatZinc language, enabling it to execute MiniZinc models. (AGPL-3.0)

47 Stars

OptaPlanner

Business planning and resource scheduling optimization solver.

CSV

Frameworks and libraries that simplify reading/writing CSV data.

893 Stars

uniVocity-parsers

One of the fastest and most feature-complete parsers. Also comes with parsers for TSV and fixed-width records.

514 Stars

Super CSV

Powerful CSV parser with support for Dozer, Joda-Time and Java 8.

477 Stars

FastCSV

Performance-optimized, dependency-free and RFC 4180 compliant.

194 Stars

jackson-dataformat-csv

Jackson extension for reading and writing CSV.

Data Structures

Efficient and specific data structures.

62169 Stars

Protobuf

Google's data interchange format.

10004 Stars

Apache Thrift

Data interchange format that originated at Facebook.

4116 Stars

Wire

Clean, lightweight protocol buffers.

3268 Stars

RoaringBitmap

Fast and efficient compressed bitmap.

2946 Stars

SBE

Simple Binary Encoding, one of the fastest message formats around.

2644 Stars

Apache Avro

Data interchange format with dynamic typing, untagged data, and absence of manually assigned IDs.

2459 Stars

Tape

Lightning-fast, transactional, file-based FIFO.

2239 Stars

Apache Parquet

Columnar storage format based on assembly algorithms from Google's paper on Dremel.

734 Stars

Persistent Collection

Persistent and immutable analogue of the Java Collections Framework.

636 Stars

Apache Orc

Fast and efficient columnar storage format for Hadoop-based workloads.

541 Stars

Big Queue

Fast and persistent queue based on memory-mapped files.

49 Stars

HyperMinHash-java

Probabilistic data structure for computing union, intersection, and set cardinality in loglog space.

Database

Everything that simplifies interactions with the database.

22095 Stars

Redisson

Allows for distributed and scalable data structures on top of a Redis server.

18952 Stars

HikariCP

High-performance JDBC connection pool.

13055 Stars

QuestDB

High-performance SQL database for time series. Supports InfluxDB line protocol, PostgreSQL wire protocol, and REST.

12990 Stars

druid

High-performance, column-oriented, distributed data store.

11410 Stars

Realm

Mobile database to run directly inside phones, tablets or wearables.

11399 Stars

Jedis

Small client for interaction with Redis, with methods for commands.

9361 Stars

Debezium

Low latency data streaming platform for change data capture.

8906 Stars

Trino

Distributed SQL query engine for big data.

7537 Stars

Flyway

Simple database migration tool.

6164 Stars

Leaf

Distributed ID generate service.

5744 Stars

jOOQ

Generates typesafe code based on SQL schema.

5146 Stars

Lettuce

Lettuce is a scalable Redis client for building non-blocking Reactive applications.

4778 Stars

MapDB

Embedded database engine that provides concurrent collections backed on disk or in off-heap memory.

4459 Stars

Querydsl

Typesafe unified queries.

4180 Stars

Liquibase

Database-independent library for tracking, managing and applying database schema changes.

4131 Stars

Apache Calcite

Dynamic data management framework. It contains many of the pieces that comprise a typical database management system.

3942 Stars

H2

Small SQL database notable for its in-memory functionality.

3130 Stars

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.

2640 Stars

Chronicle Map

Efficient, in-memory (opt. persisted to disk), off-heap key-value store.

2116 Stars

Jest

Client for the Elasticsearch REST API.

2073 Stars

Speedment

Database access library that utilizes Java 8's Stream API for querying.

1855 Stars

JDBI

Convenient abstraction of JDBC.

1851 Stars

Apache Drill

Distributed, schema on-the-fly, ANSI SQL query engine for Big Data exploration.

1137 Stars

Xodus

Highly concurrent transactional schema-less and ACID-compliant embedded database.

1013 Stars

FlexyPool

Brings metrics and failover strategies to the most common connection pooling solutions.

1005 Stars

Apache Phoenix

High-performance relational database layer over HBase for low-latency applications.

658 Stars

Jinq

Typesafe database queries via symbolic execution of Java 8 Lambdas (on top of JPA or jOOQ).

398 Stars

eXist

NoSQL document database and application platform. (LGPL-2.1-only)

375 Stars

CosId

Universal, flexible, high-performance distributed ID generator.

321 Stars

OpenDJ

LDAPv3 compliant directory service, developed for the Java platform, providing a high performance, highly available, and secure store for the identities.

196 Stars

ArangoDB

ArangoDB Java driver.

137 Stars

jetcd

Client library for etcd.

96 Stars

Vibur DBCP

JDBC connection pool library with advanced performance monitoring capabilities.

89 Stars

Spring Data JPA MongoDB Expressions

Allows you to use MongoDB query language to query your relational database.

15 Stars

QueryStream

Build JPA Criteria queries using a Stream-like API.

12 Stars

Modality

Lightweight ORM with database reverse engineering features.

1 Stars

MariaDB4j

Launcher for MariaDB that requires no installation or external dependencies.

Date and Time

Libraries related to handling date and time.

686 Stars

iCal4j

Parse and build iCalendar [RFC 5545](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545) data models.

406 Stars

Time4J

Advanced date and time library. (LGPL-2.1-only)

381 Stars

ThreeTen-Extra

Additional date-time classes that complement those in JDK 8.

184 Stars

Jollyday

Determines the holidays for a given year, country/name and eventually state/region.

Dependency Injection

Libraries that help to realize the [Inversion of Control](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_of_control) paradigm.

17221 Stars

Dagger

Compile-time injection framework without reflection.

12233 Stars

Guice

Lightweight and opinionated framework that completes Dagger.

820 Stars

Governator

Extensions and utilities that enhance Google Guice.

351 Stars

Feather

Ultra-lightweight, JSR-330-compliant dependency injection library.

180 Stars

Avaje Inject

Microservice-focused compile-time injection framework without reflection.

147 Stars

Apache DeltaSpike

CDI extension framework.

110 Stars

HK2

Lightweight and dynamic dependency injection framework.

54 Stars

JayWire

Lightweight dependency injection framework. (LGPL-3.0-only)

Development

Augmentation of the development process at a fundamental level.

5000 Stars

JavaParser

Parse, modify and generate Java code.

2144 Stars

HotswapAgent

Unlimited runtime class and resource redefinition. (GPL-2.0-only)

2047 Stars

Manifold

Re-energizes Java with powerful features like type-safe metaprogramming, structural typing and extension methods.

1723 Stars

DCEVM

JVM modification that allows unlimited redefinition of loaded classes at runtime. (GPL-2.0-only)

291 Stars

JavaSymbolSolver

Symbol solver.

234 Stars

AspectJ

Seamless aspect-oriented programming extension.

128 Stars

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.

90 Stars

NoException

Allows checked exceptions in functional interfaces and converts exceptions to Optional return.

74 Stars

SneakyThrow

Ignores checked exceptions without bytecode manipulation. Can also be used inside Java 8 stream operations.

21 Stars

Tail

Enable infinite recursion using tail call optimization.

Distributed Applications

Libraries and frameworks for writing distributed and fault-tolerant applications.

12987 Stars

Zuul

Gateway service that provides dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, security, and more.

11676 Stars

Apache ZooKeeper

Coordination service with distributed configuration, synchronization, and naming registry for large distributed systems.

9155 Stars

resilience4j

Functional fault tolerance library.

6505 Stars

Apache Storm

Realtime computation system.

5657 Stars

Hazelcast

Highly scalable in-memory datagrid with a free open-source version.

4537 Stars

Quasar

Lightweight threads and actors for the JVM.

4021 Stars

Failsafe

Simple failure handling with retries and circuit breakers.

2341 Stars

Atomix

Fault-tolerant distributed coordination framework.

2246 Stars

Apache Geode

In-memory data management system that provides reliable asynchronous event notifications and guaranteed message delivery.

989 Stars

JGroups

Toolkit for reliable messaging and cluster creation.

594 Stars

ScaleCube Services

Embeddable Cluster-Membership library based on SWIM and gossip protocol.

53 Stars

OpenIG

High-performance reverse proxy server with specialized session management and credential replay functionality.

42 Stars

Dropwizard Circuit Breaker

Circuit breaker design pattern for Dropwizard. (GPL-2.0-only)

Distributed Transactions

Distributed transactions provide a mechanism for ensuring consistency of data updates in the presence of concurrent access and partial failures.

24557 Stars

Seata

Delivers high performance and easy to use distributed transaction services under a microservices architecture.

435 Stars

Atomikos

Provides transactions for REST, SOA and microservices with support for JTA and XA.

222 Stars

Narayana

Provides support for traditional ACID and compensation transactions, also complies with JTA, JTS and other standards. (LGPL-2.1-only)

0 Stars

Bitronix

Simple but complete implementation of the JTA 1.1 API.

Distribution

Tools that handle the distribution of applications in native formats.

2512 Stars

packr

Packs JARs, assets and the JVM for native distribution on Windows, Linux and macOS.

1150 Stars

Capsule

Simple and powerful packaging and deployment. A fat JAR on steroids, or a "Docker for Java" that supports JVM-optimized containers.

877 Stars

JavaPackager

Maven and Gradle plugin which provides an easy way to package Java applications in native Windows, Mac OS X or GNU/Linux executables, and generate installers for them.

490 Stars

Getdown

A system for deploying Java applications to end-user computers and keeping them up to date. Developed as an alternative to Java Web Start.

479 Stars

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.

422 Stars

Artipie

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

327 Stars

jDeploy

Deploy desktop apps as native Mac, Windows or Linux bundles.

316 Stars

IzPack

Setup authoring tool for cross-platform deployments.

124 Stars

really-executable-jars-maven-plugin

Maven plugin for making self-executing JARs.

46 Stars

jlink.online

Builds optimized runtimes over HTTP.

Document Processing

Libraries that assist with processing office document formats.

1969 Stars

docx4j

Create and manipulate Microsoft Open XML files.

1762 Stars

Apache POI

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

553 Stars

fastexcel

High performance library to read and write large Excel (XLSX) worksheets.

507 Stars

documents4j

API for document format conversion using third-party converters such as MS Word.

78 Stars

zerocell

Annotation-based API for reading data from Excel sheets into POJOs with focus on reduced overhead.

Financial

Libraries related to the financial domain.

1871 Stars

ta4j

Library for technical analysis.

713 Stars

Stripe

Integration with the Stripe API.

518 Stars

Cassandre

Trading bot framework.

502 Stars

Parity

Platform for trading venues.

301 Stars

Philadelphia

Low-latency financial information exchange.

40 Stars

Square

Integration with the Square API.

Formal Verification

Formal-methods tools: proof assistants, model checking, symbolic execution, etc.

951 Stars

Checker Framework

Pluggable type systems. Includes nullness types, physical units, immutability types and more. (GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0)

479 Stars

Java Path Finder (JPF)

JVM formal verification tool containing a model checker and more. Created by NASA.

187 Stars

Daikon

Detects likely program invariants and generates JML specs based on those invariants.

125 Stars

OpenJML

Translates JML specifications into SMT-LIB format and passes the proof problems implied by the program to backend solvers. (GPL-2.0-only)

97 Stars

CATG

Concolic unit testing engine. Automatically generates unit tests using formal methods.

31 Stars

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)

4 Stars

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)

Functional Programming

Libraries that facilitate functional programming.

5405 Stars

Vavr

Functional component library that provides persistent data types and functional control structures.

2109 Stars

StreamEx

Enhances Java 8 Streams.

2041 Stars

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.

1568 Stars

Functional Java

Implements numerous basic and advanced programming abstractions that assist composition-oriented development.

1288 Stars

Cyclops

Monad and stream utilities, comprehensions, pattern matching, functional extensions for all JDK collections, future streams, trampolines and much more.

559 Stars

derive4j

Java 8 annotation processor and framework for deriving algebraic data types constructors, pattern-matching and morphisms. (GPL-3.0-only)

474 Stars

protonpack

Collection of stream utilities.

Game Development

Frameworks that support the development of games.

22248 Stars

libGDX

All-round cross-platform, high-level framework.

4434 Stars

LWJGL

Robust framework that abstracts libraries like OpenGL/CL/AL.

3893 Stars

FXGL

JavaFX Game Development Framework.

3607 Stars

jMonkeyEngine

Game engine for modern 3D development.

1073 Stars

JBox2D

Port of the renowned C++ 2D physics engine.

666 Stars

Litiengine

AWT-based, lightweight 2D game engine.

500 Stars

Mini2Dx

Beginner-friendly, master-ready framework for rapidly prototyping and building 2D games.

25 Stars

Void2D

High-level 2D game engine with built-in physics based on Swing.

Geospatial

Libraries for working with geospatial data and algorithms.

4468 Stars

GraphHopper

Road-routing engine. Used as a Java library or standalone web service.

1576 Stars

GeoTools

Library that provides tools for geospatial data. (LGPL-2.1-only)

1110 Stars

Mapsforge

Map rendering based on OpenStreetMap data. (LGPL-3.0-only)

922 Stars

Spatial4j

General-purpose spatial/geospatial library.

401 Stars

Geo

GeoHash utilities in Java.

199 Stars

H2GIS

Spatial extension of the H2 database. (LGPL-3.0-only)

91 Stars

Apache SIS

Library for developing geospatial applications.

64 Stars

Jgeohash

Library for using the GeoHash algorithm.

GUI

Libraries to create modern graphical user interfaces.

2381 Stars

JavaFX

Successor of Swing.

663 Stars

Scene Builder

Visual layout tool for JavaFX applications.

77 Stars

SWT

Graphical widget toolkit.

High Performance

Everything about high-performance computation, from collections to specific libraries.

16638 Stars

Disruptor

Inter-thread messaging library.

3400 Stars

JCTools

Concurrency tools currently missing from the JDK.

2677 Stars

Agrona

Data structures and utility methods that are common in high-performance applications.

2287 Stars

Eclipse Collections

Collections framework inspired by Smalltalk.

1660 Stars

fastutil

Fast and compact type-specific collections.

986 Stars

Koloboke

Carefully designed extension of the Java Collections Framework with primitive specializations and more.

940 Stars

HPPC

Primitive collections.

HTTP Clients

Libraries that assist with creating HTTP requests and/or binding responses.

42224 Stars

Retrofit

Typesafe REST client.

9092 Stars

Feign

HTTP client binder inspired by Retrofit, JAXRS-2.0, and WebSocket.

6191 Stars

Async Http Client

Asynchronous HTTP and WebSocket client library.

4486 Stars

Ribbon

Client-side IPC library that is battle-tested in the cloud.

2511 Stars

unirest-java

Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library.

1378 Stars

Apache HttpComponents

A toolset of low-level Java components focused on HTTP and associated protocols.

1350 Stars

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.

274 Stars

Riptide

Client-side response routing for Spring's RestTemplate.

201 Stars

methanol

HTTP client extensions library.

56 Stars

Avaje Http Client

A wrapper on JDK 11's HttpClient that adds Feign-like interface among other enhancements.

Hypermedia Types

Libraries that handle serialization to hypermedia types.

369 Stars

JSON-LD

JSON-LD implementation.

25 Stars

Siren4J

Library for the Siren specification.

23 Stars

hate

Builds hypermedia-friendly objects according to HAL specification.

IDE

Integrated development environments that try to simplify several aspects of development.

153679 Stars

Visual Studio Code

Provides Java support for lightweight projects with a simple, modern workflow by using extensions from the internal marketplace.

2452 Stars

NetBeans

Provides integration for several Java SE and EE features, from database access to HTML5.

Imagery

Libraries that assist with the creation, evaluation or manipulation of graphical images.

31747 Stars

ZXing

Multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library.

4881 Stars

Thumbnailator

High-quality thumbnail generation library.

1729 Stars

TwelveMonkeys

Collection of plugins that extend the number of supported image file formats.

1432 Stars

Tess4J

JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR API.

1185 Stars

Imgscalr

Simple, efficient and hardware-accelerated image-scaling library implemented in pure Java 2D.

307 Stars

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.

Introspection

Libraries that help make the Java introspection and reflection API easier and faster to use.

4597 Stars

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.

2743 Stars

jOOR

jOOR stands for jOOR Object Oriented Reflection. It is a simple wrapper for the java.lang.reflect package.

2550 Stars

ClassGraph

ClassGraph (formerly FastClasspathScanner) is an uber-fast, ultra-lightweight, parallelized classpath scanner and module scanner for Java, Scala, Kotlin and other JVM languages.

1461 Stars

ReflectASM

ReflectASM is a very small Java library that provides high performance reflection by using code generation.

573 Stars

Objenesis

Allows dynamic instantiation without default constructor, e.g. constructors which have required arguments, side effects or throw exceptions.

104 Stars

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.

Job Scheduling

Libraries for scheduling background jobs.

5920 Stars

Quartz

Feature-rich, open source job scheduling library that can be integrated within virtually any Java application.

3234 Stars

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.

1986 Stars

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.

1023 Stars

db-scheduler

Persistent and cluster-friendly scheduler.

594 Stars

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.

265 Stars

Sundial

Lightweight framework to simply define jobs, define triggers and start the scheduler.

118 Stars

Wisp

Simple library with minimal footprint and straightforward API.

JSON

Libraries for serializing and deserializing JSON to and from Java objects.

25507 Stars

fastjson

Very fast processor with no additional dependencies and full data binding.

22621 Stars

Gson

Serializes objects to JSON and vice versa. Good performance with on-the-fly usage.

9292 Stars

Moshi

Modern JSON library, less opinionated and uses built-in types like List and Map.

8550 Stars

Jackson

Similar to GSON, but offers performance gains if you need to instantiate the library more often.

8357 Stars

JsonPath

Extract data from JSON using XPATH-like syntax.

3214 Stars

LoganSquare

JSON parsing and serializing library based on Jackson's streaming API. Outperforms GSON & Jackson's library.

1478 Stars

jsoniter

Fast and flexible library with iterator and lazy parsing API.

1433 Stars

Jolt

JSON to JSON transformation tool.

952 Stars

DSL-JSON

JSON library with advanced compile time databinding.

459 Stars

HikariJSON

High-performance JSON parser, 2x faster than Jackson.

391 Stars

jackson-modules-java8

Set of Jackson modules for Java 8 datatypes and features.

311 Stars

JSON-io

Convert Java to JSON. Convert JSON to Java. Pretty print JSON. Java JSON serializer.

277 Stars

JsonSurfer

Streaming JsonPath processor dedicated to processing big and complicated JSON data.

241 Stars

Jackson-datatype-money

Open-source Jackson module to support JSON serialization and deserialization of JavaMoney data types.

217 Stars

Genson

Powerful and easy-to-use Java-to-JSON conversion library.

192 Stars

Yasson

Binding layer between classes and JSON documents similar to JAXB.

37 Stars

Avaje Jsonb

Reflection-free Json binding via source code generation with Jackson-like annotations.

JVM and JDK

Current implementations of the JVM/JDK.

19284 Stars

Graal

Polyglot embeddable JVM. (GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0)

17378 Stars

Open JDK

Open JDK community home. (GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0)

4044 Stars

Dragonwell8

Downstream version of OpenJDK optimized for online e-commerce, financial, logistics applications.

3175 Stars

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.

2957 Stars

Adopt Open JDK

Community-driven OpenJDK builds, including both HotSpot and OpenJ9.

2077 Stars

Corretto

No-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK by Amazon. (GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0)

1581 Stars

ParparVM

VM with non-blocking, concurrent GC for iOS. (GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0)

1212 Stars

Avian

JVM with JIT, AOT modes and iOS port.

464 Stars

SAP Machine

SAP's no-cost, rigorously tested and JCK-verified OpenJDK friendly fork. (GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0)

251 Stars

Liberica JDK

Built from OpenJDK, thoroughly tested and passed the JCK. (GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0)

246 Stars

Zulu

OpenJDK builds for Windows, Linux, and macOS. (GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0)

Logging

Libraries that log the behavior of an application.

18952 Stars

Kibana

Analyzes and visualizes log files. Some features require payment.

13761 Stars

Logstash

Tool for managing log files.

6869 Stars

Graylog

Open-source aggregator suited for extended role and permission management. (GPL-3.0-only)

3205 Stars

Apache Log4j 2

Complete rewrite with a powerful plugin and configuration architecture.

2806 Stars

Logback

Robust logging library with interesting configuration options via Groovy.

2202 Stars

SLF4J

Abstraction layer/simple logging facade.

1935 Stars

p6spy

Enables logging for all JDBC transactions without changes to the code.

1614 Stars

Logbook

Extensible, open-source library for HTTP request and response logging.

635 Stars

tinylog

Lightweight logging framework with static logger class.

181 Stars

OpenTracing Toolbox

Collection of libraries that build on top of OpenTracing and provide extensions and plugins to existing instrumentations.

51 Stars

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.

Machine Learning

Tools that provide specific statistical algorithms for learning from data.

22370 Stars

Apache Flink

Fast, reliable, large-scale data processing engine.

13251 Stars

Deeplearning4j

Distributed and multi-threaded deep learning library.

8894 Stars

H2O ![c]

Analytics engine for statistics over big data.

5850 Stars

Smile

Statistical Machine Intelligence and Learning Engine provides a set of machine learning algorithms and a visualization library.

3603 Stars

DJL

High-level and engine-agnostic framework for deep learning.

2657 Stars

m2cgen

CLI tool to transpile models into native code.

2100 Stars

Apache Mahout

Scalable algorithms focused on collaborative filtering, clustering and classification.

1792 Stars

Oryx 2

Framework for building real-time, large-scale machine learning applications. Includes end-to-end applications for collaborative filtering, classification, regression, and clustering.

1484 Stars

Siddhi

Cloud native streaming and complex event processing engine.

1194 Stars

Tribuo

Provides tools for classification, regression, clustering, model development and interfaces with other libraries such as scikit-learn, pytorch and TensorFlow.

1089 Stars

DatumBox

Provides several algorithms and pre-trained models for natural language processing.

776 Stars

JSAT

Algorithms for pre-processing, classification, regression, and clustering with support for multi-threaded execution. (GPL-3.0-only)

443 Stars

oj! Algorithms

High-performance mathematics, linear algebra and optimisation needed for data science, machine learning and scientific computing.

176 Stars

Weka

Collection of algorithms for data mining tasks ranging from pre-processing to visualization. (GPL-3.0-only)

60 Stars

Intelligent java

Seamlessly integrate with remote deep learning and language models programmatically.

Messaging

Tools that help send messages between clients to ensure protocol independency.

26337 Stars

Apache Kafka

High-throughput distributed messaging system.

24489 Stars

EventBus

Simple publish/subscribe event bus.

20060 Stars

Apache RocketMQ

Fast, reliable, and scalable distributed messaging platform.

13364 Stars

Apache Pulsar

Distributed pub/sub-messaging system.

6830 Stars

Aeron

Efficient, reliable, unicast and multicast message transport.

5151 Stars

Apache Camel

Glues together different transport APIs via Enterprise Integration Patterns.

2356 Stars

Smack

Cross-platform XMPP client library.

2285 Stars

JeroMQ

Implementation of ZeroMQ.

2208 Stars

Apache ActiveMQ

Message broker that implements JMS and converts synchronous to asynchronous communication.

1190 Stars

RabbitMQ Java client

RabbitMQ client.

926 Stars

Nakadi

Provides a RESTful API on top of Kafka.

774 Stars

Hermes

Fast and reliable message broker built on top of Kafka.

511 Stars

NATS client

NATS client.

126 Stars

Apache Qpid

Apache Qpid makes messaging tools that speak AMQP and support many languages and platforms.

39 Stars

Deezpatch

Simple, lightweight, and performant dispatch library for decoupling messages (requests and events) and message handlers.

Microservice

Tools for creating and managing microservices.

28037 Stars

Nacos

Dynamic service discovery, configuration and service management platform for building cloud native applications.

21592 Stars

Sentinel

Flow control component enabling reliability, resilience and monitoring for microservices.

12593 Stars

Quarkus

Kubernetes stack tailored for the HotSpot and Graal VM.

12061 Stars

Eureka

REST-based service registry for resilient load balancing and failover.

5866 Stars

Micronaut

Modern full-stack framework with focus on modularity, minimal memory footprint and startup time.

4511 Stars

Armeria

Asynchronous RPC/REST client/server library built on top of Java 8, Netty, HTTP/2, Thrift and gRPC.

4079 Stars

OpenAI-Java

Java libraries for using OpenAI's GPT-3 API.

3961 Stars

JDA

Wrapping of the Discord REST API and its WebSocket events.

3250 Stars

Helidon

Two-style approach for writing microservices: Functional-reactive and as an implementation of MicroProfile.

3176 Stars

kubernetes-client

Client provides access to the full Kubernetes & OpenShift REST APIs via a fluent DSL.

1648 Stars

Apollo

Libraries for writing composable microservices.

742 Stars

ActiveRPC

Lightweight and fast library for complex high-load distributed applications and Memcached-like solutions.

416 Stars

consul-api

Client for the Consul API: a distributed, highly available and datacenter-aware registry/discovery service.

Miscellaneous

Everything else.

84786 Stars

Design Patterns

Implementation and explanation of the most common design patterns.

19889 Stars

FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition

No-nonsense implementation of FizzBuzz made by serious businessmen for serious business purposes. (No explicit license)

16515 Stars

Modern Java - A Guide to Java 8

Popular Java 8 guide.

10010 Stars

OpenRefine

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

5962 Stars

J2ObjC

Java-to-Objective-C translator for porting Android libraries to iOS.

5201 Stars

OctoLinker

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

2330 Stars

Jimfs

In-memory file system.

2003 Stars

LittleProxy

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

1945 Stars

AWS SDK for Java 2.0

Wrapper around AWS' API.

1782 Stars

Svix

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

1654 Stars

CQEngine

Ultra-fast, SQL-like queries on Java collections.

1586 Stars

Maven Wrapper

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

1406 Stars

jsweet

Source transpiler to TypeScript/JavaScript.

1326 Stars

FF4J

Feature Flags for Java.

1201 Stars

JBot

Framework for building chatbots. (GPL-3.0-only)

1140 Stars

Simple Java Mail

Mailing with a clean and fluent API.

1084 Stars

JBake

Static website generator.

883 Stars

Togglz

Implementation of the Feature Toggles pattern.

856 Stars

Polyglot for Maven

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

632 Stars

Joda-Money

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

599 Stars

TypeTools

Tools for resolving generic types.

484 Stars

jOOX

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

428 Stars

Membrane Service Proxy

Open-source, reverse-proxy framework.

376 Stars

Smooks

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

364 Stars

PipelinR

Small utility library for using handlers and commands with pipelines.

344 Stars

Modernizer

Detect uses of legacy Java APIs.

317 Stars

yGuard

Obfuscation via renaming and shrinking.

209 Stars

JCuda

JCuda offers Java bindings for CUDA and CUDA-related libraries.

149 Stars

MinimalFTP

Lightweight, small and customizable FTP server.

73 Stars

XMLBeam

Processes XML by using annotations or XPath within code.

21 Stars

RR4J

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

15 Stars

JObfuscator![c]

Source code obfuscator.

Mobile Development

Tools for creating or managing mobile applications.

1581 Stars

Codename One

Cross-platform solution for writing native mobile apps. (GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0)

571 Stars

Multi-OS Engine

Open-source, cross-platform engine to develop native mobile (iOS, Android, etc.) apps.

Monitoring

Tools that monitor applications in production.

16532 Stars

zipkin

Distributed tracing system which gathers timing data needed to troubleshoot latency problems in microservice architectures.

13062 Stars

Pinpoint

Open-source APM tool.

7774 Stars

Metrics

Expose metrics via JMX or HTTP and send them to a database.

4874 Stars

hippo4j

Dynamic and observable thread pool framework.

3835 Stars

HertzBeat

Real-time monitoring system with custom-monitor and agentless.

2880 Stars

JavaMelody

Performance monitoring and profiling.

2075 Stars

Prometheus

Provides a multi-dimensional data model, DSL, autonomous server nodes and much more.

1710 Stars

Stagemonitor

Open-source performance monitoring and transaction tracing for JVM apps.

1705 Stars

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.

1151 Stars

Glowroot

Open-source Java APM.

1046 Stars

Sentry ![c]

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

792 Stars

Jolokia

JMX over REST.

567 Stars

Automon

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

537 Stars

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.

497 Stars

Datadog ![c]

Modern monitoring & analytics.

490 Stars

Jaeger client

Jaeger client.

155 Stars

Sysmon

Lightweight platform monitoring tool for Java VMs.

154 Stars

nudge4j

Remote developer console from the browser for Java 8 via bytecode injection.

53 Stars

Failsafe Actuator

Out of the box monitoring of Failsafe Circuit Breaker in Spring-Boot environment.

21 Stars

SPM ![c]

Performance monitor with distributing transaction tracing for JVM apps.

Native

For working with platform-specific native libraries.

8107 Stars

JNA

Work with native libraries without writing JNI. Also provides interfaces to common system libraries.

4246 Stars

JavaCPP

Provides efficient and easy access to native C++.

1167 Stars

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).

450 Stars

Aparapi

Converts bytecode to OpenCL which allows execution on GPUs.

Natural Language Processing

Libraries that specialize in processing text.

9259 Stars

CoreNLP

Provides a set of fundamental tools for tasks like tagging, named entity recognition, and sentiment analysis. (GPL-3.0-or-later)

468 Stars

CogCompNLP

Provides common annotators for plain text input. (Research and Academic Use License)

197 Stars

DKPro

Collection of reusable NLP tools for linguistic pre-processing, machine learning, lexical resources, etc.

Networking

Libraries for building network servers.

39572 Stars

Dubbo

High-performance RPC framework.

32158 Stars

Netty

Framework for building high-performance network applications.

10936 Stars

gRPC

RPC framework based on protobuf and HTTP/2.

3468 Stars

Undertow

Web server providing both blocking and non-blocking APIs based on NIO. Used as a network layer in WildFly. (LGPL-2.1-only)

2391 Stars

sshj

Programmatically use SSH, SCP or SFTP.

1785 Stars

KryoNet

Provides a clean and simple API for efficient TCP and UDP client/server network communication using NIO and Kryo.

886 Stars

MINA

Abstract, event-driven async I/O API for network operations over TCP/IP and UDP/IP via Java NIO.

859 Stars

ServiceTalk

Framework built on Netty with APIs tailored to specific protocols and support for multiple programming paradigms.

600 Stars

Comsat

Integrates standard Java web-related APIs with Quasar fibers and actors.

232 Stars

Drift

Easy-to-use, annotation-based library for creating Thrift clients and serializable types.

164 Stars

TLS Channel

Implements a ByteChannel interface over SSLEngine, enabling easy-to-use (socket-like) TLS.

147 Stars

Fluency

High throughput data ingestion logger to Fluentd and Fluent Bit.

141 Stars

Grizzly

NIO framework. Used as a network layer in Glassfish.

28 Stars

urnlib

Represent, parse and encode URNs, as in RFC 2141. (GPL-3.0-only)

11 Stars

Commons-networking

Client for server-sent events (SSE).

ORM

APIs that handle the persistence of objects.

19098 Stars

MyBatis

Couples objects with stored procedures or SQL statements.

5612 Stars

Hibernate

Robust and widely used, with an active community. (LGPL-2.1-only)

1424 Stars

Ebean

Provides simple and fast data access.

1239 Stars

ObjectiveSql

ActiveRecord ORM for rapid development and convention over configuration.

423 Stars

SimpleFlatMapper

Simple database and CSV mapper.

396 Stars

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.

387 Stars

Permazen

Language-natural persistence layer.

298 Stars

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.

176 Stars

EclipseLink

Supports a number of persistence standards: JPA, JAXB, JCA and SDO.

PaaS

Java platform as a service.

PDF

Tools to help with PDF files.

2974 Stars

OpenPDF

Open-source iText fork. (LGPL-3.0-only & MPL-2.0)

2222 Stars

Apache PDFBox

Toolbox for creating and manipulating PDFs.

1859 Stars

flyingsaucer

XML/XHTML and CSS 2.1 renderer. (LGPL-2.1-or-later)

1766 Stars

Open HTML to PDF

Properly supports modern PDF standards based on flyingsaucer and Apache PDFBox.

1656 Stars

Tabula

Extracts tables from PDF files.

1540 Stars

iText ![c]

Creates PDF files programmatically.

867 Stars

JasperReports

Complex reporting engine. (LGPL-3.0-only)

391 Stars

Eclipse BIRT

Report engine for creating PDF and other formats (DOCX, XLSX, HTML, etc) using Eclipse-based visual editor.

237 Stars

Dynamic Jasper

Abstraction layer to JasperReports. (LGPL-3.0-only)

182 Stars

DynamicReports

Simplifies JasperReports. (LGPL-3.0-only)

161 Stars

Apache FOP

Creates PDFs from XSL-FO.

Performance analysis

Tools for performance analysis, profiling and benchmarking.

2957 Stars

JITWatch

Analyze the JIT compiler optimisations made by the HotSpot JVM.

1821 Stars

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)

1241 Stars

honest-profiler

Low-overhead, bias-free sampling profiler.

674 Stars

jHiccup

Logs and records platform JVM stalls.

448 Stars

LatencyUtils

Utilities for latency measurement and reporting.

Apache Commons

Reusable, open source Java software.

2575 Stars

Lang

Provides extra functionality for classes in java.lang.

955 Stars

IO

Collection of I/O utilities.

642 Stars

Collections

Extends or augments the Java Collections Framework.

541 Stars

Math

Lightweight, self-contained mathematics and statistics components.

492 Stars

Pool

Generic object pooling component.

425 Stars

Codec

General encoding/decoding algorithms, e.g. phonetic, base64 or URL.

385 Stars

Imaging

Image library.

351 Stars

DbUtils

JDBC helper library.

345 Stars

CSV

Component for reading and writing comma separated value files.

320 Stars

DBCP

Database connection pooling services.

312 Stars

CLI

Command-line arguments parser.

297 Stars

Compress

Defines an API for working with tar, zip and bzip2 files.

260 Stars

BeanUtils

Easy-to-use wrappers around the Java reflection and introspection APIs.

232 Stars

Net

Collection of network utilities and protocol implementations.

227 Stars

BCEL

Byte Code Engineering Library - analyze, create, and manipulate Java class files.

220 Stars

FileUpload

File upload capability for your servlets and web applications.

209 Stars

VFS

Virtual File System component for treating files, FTP, SMB, ZIP and such like as a single logical file system.

190 Stars

Validator

Framework to define validators and validation rules in an xml file.

186 Stars

Configuration

Reading of configuration/preferences files in various formats.

169 Stars

Jexl

Expression language which extends the Expression Language of the JSTL.

135 Stars

Logging

Wrapper around a variety of logging API implementations.

132 Stars

Email

Library for sending e-mail from Java.

128 Stars

Exec

API for dealing with external process execution and environment management in Java.

90 Stars

JCS

Java Caching System.

88 Stars

Daemon

Alternative invocation mechanism for unix-daemon-like java code.

81 Stars

OGNL

Object-graph navigation language.

67 Stars

Chain

Chain of Responsibility pattern implementation.

50 Stars

Digester

XML-to-Java-object mapping utility.

45 Stars

RNG

Commons Rng provides implementations of pseudo-random numbers generators.

43 Stars

SCXML

Implementation of the State Chart XML specification aimed at creating and maintaining a Java SCXML engine.

39 Stars

RDF

Common implementation of RDF 1.1 that could be implemented by systems on the JVM.

28 Stars

JXPath

Utilities for manipulating Java Beans using the XPath syntax.

25 Stars

Graph

General purpose graph APIs and algorithms.

25 Stars

Proxy

Library for creating dynamic proxies.

21 Stars

BSF

Bean Scripting Framework - interface to scripting languages, including JSR-223.

21 Stars

Functor

Function that can be manipulated as an object, or an object representing a single, generic function.

20 Stars

Weaver

Provides an easy way to enhance (weave) compiled bytecode.

15 Stars

Jelly

XML based scripting and processing engine.

13 Stars

JCI

Java Compiler Interface.

Other

Other kinds of platforms

3555 Stars

Light-4J

Fast, lightweight and productive microservices framework with built-in [security](https://github.com/networknt/light-oauth2/).

1333 Stars

CUBA Platform

High-level framework for developing enterprise applications with a rich web interface, based on Spring, EclipseLink and Vaadin.

212 Stars

Orienteer

Open-source business application platform for rapid configuration/development of CRM, ERP, LMS and other applications.

Processes

Libraries that help the management of operating system processes.

859 Stars

zt-exec

Provides a unified API to Apache Commons Exec and ProcessBuilder.

122 Stars

zt-process-killer

Stops processes started from Java or the system processes via PID.

29 Stars

ch.vorburger.exec

Convenient API around Apache Commons Exec.

Reactive libraries

Libraries for developing reactive applications.

47333 Stars

RxJava

Allows for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences.

13863 Stars

vert.x

Polyglot event-driven application framework.

12828 Stars

Akka

Toolkit and runtime for building concurrent, distributed, fault-tolerant and event-driven applications.

4715 Stars

Reactor

Library for building reactive fast-data applications.

4698 Stars

Reactive Streams

Provides a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non-blocking backpressure.

REST Frameworks

Frameworks specifically for creating RESTful services.

9557 Stars

Spark

Sinatra inspired framework.

8435 Stars

Dropwizard

Opinionated framework for setting up modern web applications with Jetty, Jackson, Jersey and Metrics.

2918 Stars

springdoc-openapi

Automates the generation of API documentation using Spring Boot projects.

2359 Stars

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.

1623 Stars

Rapidoid

Simple, secure and extremely fast framework consisting of an embedded HTTP server, GUI components and dependency injection.

1066 Stars

RESTEasy

Fully certified and portable implementation of the JAX-RS specification.

965 Stars

Elide

Opinionated framework for JSON- or GraphQL-APIs based on a JPA data model.

942 Stars

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.

938 Stars

RestExpress

Thin wrapper on the JBoss Netty HTTP stack that provides scaling and performance.

664 Stars

Jersey

JAX-RS reference implementation.

639 Stars

Restlet Framework

Pioneering framework with powerful routing and filtering capabilities, and a unified client and server API.

281 Stars

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.

Science

Libraries for scientific computing, analysis and visualization.

3369 Stars

Tablesaw

Includes a data-frame, an embedded column store, and hundreds of methods to transform, summarize, or filter data.

2441 Stars

JGraphT

Graph library that provides mathematical graph-theory objects and algorithms.

1426 Stars

XChart

Light-weight library for plotting data. Many customizable chart types are available.

1107 Stars

JFreeChart

2D chart library for Swing, JavaFX and server-side applications. (LGPL-2.1-only)

652 Stars

JGraphX

Library for visualizing (mainly Swing) and interacting with node-edge graphs.

559 Stars

BioJava

Facilitates processing biological data by providing algorithms, file format parsers, sequencing and 3D visualization commonly used in bioinformatics.

454 Stars

Chart-FX

Scientific charting library with focus on performance optimised real-time data visualisation at 25 Hz update rates for large data sets.

393 Stars

GraphStream

Library for modeling and analyzing dynamic graphs.

238 Stars

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.

125 Stars

Erdos

Modular, light and easy graph framework for theoretic algorithms.

120 Stars

LogicNG

Library for creating, manipulating and solving Boolean and Pseudo-Boolean formulas.

102 Stars

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)

69 Stars

Mines Java Toolkit

Library for geophysical scientific computation, visualization and digital signal analysis.

Search

Engines that index documents for search and analysis.

65989 Stars

Elasticsearch

Distributed, multitenant-capable, full-text search engine with a RESTful web interface and schema-free JSON documents.

2107 Stars

Apache Lucene

High-performance, full-featured, cross-platform, text search engine library.

905 Stars

Apache Solr

Enterprise search engine optimized for high-volume traffic.

49 Stars

Indexer4j

Simple and light full text indexing and searching library.

Security

Libraries that handle security, authentication, authorization or session management.

18219 Stars

Keycloak

Integrated SSO and IDM for browser apps and RESTful web services.

13371 Stars

Tink

Provides a simple and misuse-proof API for common cryptographic tasks.

10159 Stars

Cryptomator

Multiplatform, transparent, client-side encryption of files in the cloud. (GPL-3.0-only)

9502 Stars

jjwt

JSON web token for Java and Android.

5539 Stars

DependencyCheck

Detects publicly disclosed vulnerabilities contained within a project's dependencies.

4203 Stars

Apache Shiro

Performs authentication, authorization, cryptography and session management.

2615 Stars

Keywhiz

System for distributing and managing secrets.

2338 Stars

pac4j

Security engine.

2074 Stars

Bouncy Castle

All-purpose cryptographic library and JCA provider offering a wide range of functions, from basic helpers to PGP/SMIME operations.

1779 Stars

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.

887 Stars

Topaz

Fine-grained authorization for applications with support for RBAC, ABAC, and ReBAC.

670 Stars

OpenAM

Access management solution that includes authentication, SSO, authorization, federation, entitlements and web services security.

438 Stars

SSLContext-Kickstart

High-level SSL context builder for configuring HTTP clients with SSL/TLS.

303 Stars

Password4j

User-friendly cryptographic library that supports Argon2, Bcrypt, Scrypt, PBKDF2 and various other cryptographic hash functions.

276 Stars

Nbvcxz

Advanced password strength estimation.

259 Stars

Passay

Enforce password policy by validating candidate passwords against a configurable rule set.

211 Stars

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.

207 Stars

Kalium

Binding for the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library.

183 Stars

Jwks RSA

JSON Web Key Set parser.

149 Stars

OTP-Java

One-time password generator library according to RFC 4226 (HOTP) and RFC 6238 (TOTP).

105 Stars

OACC

Provides permission-based authorization services.

44 Stars

SecurityBuilder

Fluent Builder API for JCA and JSSE classes and especially X.509 certificates.

7 Stars

jwt-java

Easily create and parse JSON Web Tokens and create customized JWT validators using a fluent API.

Serialization

Libraries that handle serialization with high efficiency.

21450 Stars

FlatBuffers

Memory-efficient serialization library that can access serialized data without unpacking and parsing it.

5947 Stars

Kryo

Fast and efficient object graph serialization framework.

2125 Stars

Fury

A blazing fast multi-language serialization framework powered by jit and zero-copy.

1544 Stars

FST

JDK-compatible, high-performance object graph serialization.

1362 Stars

MessagePack

Efficient binary serialization format.

16 Stars

PHP Serializer

Serializing objects in the PHP serialization format.

Server

Servers specifically used to deploy applications.

7066 Stars

Apache Tomcat

Robust, all-round server for Servlet and JSP.

6728 Stars

nanohttpd

Tiny, easily embeddable HTTP server.

3689 Stars

Jetty

Provides a Web server and javax.servlet container, plus support for HTTP/2, WebSocket, OSGi, JMX, JNDI, JAAS and many other integrations.

2949 Stars

WildFly

Formerly known as JBoss and developed by Red Hat with extensive Java EE support. (LGPL-2.1-only)

428 Stars

Apache TomEE

Tomcat plus Java EE.

Template Engine

Tools that substitute expressions in a template.

2651 Stars

Thymeleaf

Aims to be a substitute for JSP and works for XML files.

1407 Stars

Handlebars.java

Logicless and semantic Mustache templates.

1038 Stars

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.

901 Stars

Freemarker

Library to generate text output (HTML web pages, e-mails, configuration files, source code, etc.) based on templates and changing data.

901 Stars

StringTemplate

Template engine for generating source code, web pages, emails, or any other formatted text output.

703 Stars

Jade4J

Implementation of Pug (formerly known as Jade).

703 Stars

Rocker

Optimized, memory efficient and speedy template engine producing statically typed, plain objects.

623 Stars

jte

Compiles to classes, and uses an easy syntax, several features to make development easier and provides fast execution and a small footprint.

298 Stars

Jtwig

Modular, configurable and fully tested template engine.

158 Stars

jstachio

Typesafe Mustache templating engine.

51 Stars

Jamal

Extendable template engine embedded into Maven/JavaDoc, supporting multiple extensions (Groovy, Ruby, JavaScript, JShell, PlantUml) with support for snippet handling.

Testing

Tools that test from model to the view.

BDD

Testing for the software development process that emerged from TDD and was heavily influenced by DDD and OOAD.

2632 Stars

Cucumber

Provides a way to describe features in a plain language which customers can understand.

697 Stars

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.

415 Stars

JGiven

Provides a fluent API which allows for simpler composition.

253 Stars

Lamdba Behave

Aims to provide a fluent API to write tests in long and descriptive sentences that read like plain English.

159 Stars

JBehave

Extensively configurable framework that describes stories.

106 Stars

Cukes-REST

Collection of Gherkin steps for REST-service testing using Cucumber.

46 Stars

J8Spec

Follows a Jasmine-like syntax.

Fixtures

Everything related to the creation and handling of random data.

4412 Stars

Java Faker

Port of Ruby's fake data generator.

732 Stars

jFairy

Fake data generator.

639 Stars

Instancio

Automates data setup in unit tests by generating fully-populated, reproducible objects. Includes JUnit 5 extension.

520 Stars

Mockneat

Another fake data generator.

438 Stars

Fixture Factory

Generates fake objects from a template.

170 Stars

Randomized Testing

JUnit test runner and plugins for running JUnit tests with pseudo-randomness.

112 Stars

Beanmother

Sets up beans from YAML fixtures.

Frameworks

Provide environments to run tests for a specific use case.

7546 Stars

Apache JMeter

Functional testing and performance measurements.

6131 Stars

Gatling

Load testing tool designed for ease of use, maintainability and high performance.

5994 Stars

JUnit

Common testing framework.

2925 Stars

ArchUnit

Test library for specifying and asserting architecture rules.

1589 Stars

PIT

Fast mutation-testing framework for evaluating fault-detection abilities of existing JUnit or TestNG test suites.

1031 Stars

Pact JVM

Consumer-driven contract testing.

486 Stars

jqwik

Engine for property-based testing built on JUnit 5.

424 Stars

Citrus

Integration testing framework that focuses on both client- and server-side messaging.

355 Stars

Arquillian

Integration and functional testing platform for Java EE containers.

Matchers

Libraries that provide custom matchers.

2660 Stars

Truth

Google's fluent assertion and proposition framework.

2457 Stars

AssertJ

Fluent assertions that improve readability.

2071 Stars

Hamcrest

Matchers that can be combined to create flexible expressions of intent.

947 Stars

JSONAssert

Simplifies testing JSON strings.

819 Stars

JsonUnit

Library that simplifies JSON comparison in tests.

285 Stars

XMLUnit

Simplifies testing for XML output.

Miscellaneous

Other stuff related to testing.

7471 Stars

TestContainers

Provides throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.

315 Stars

LogCaptor

Captures log entries for unit testing purposes.

241 Stars

junit-dataprovider

TestNG-like data provider/runner for JUnit.

237 Stars

Mutability Detector

Reports whether instances of a given class are immutable.

71 Stars

raml-tester

Tests if a request/response matches a given RAML definition.

52 Stars

pojo-tester

Automatically performs tests on basic POJO methods. (LGPL-3.0-only)

25 Stars

ConsoleCaptor

Captures console output for unit testing purposes.

10 Stars

log-capture

Captures log entries and provides assertions for unit and integration testing.

Mocking

Tools which mock collaborators to help testing single, isolated units.

14342 Stars

Mockito

Mocking framework that lets you write tests with a clean and simple API.

5874 Stars

WireMock

Stubs and mocks web services.

4326 Stars

MockServer

Allows mocking of systems integrated with HTTPS.

4267 Stars

Moco

Concise web services for stubs and mocks.

4096 Stars

PowerMock

Mocks static methods, constructors, final classes and methods, private methods, and removal of static initializers.

453 Stars

JMockit

Integration testing, API mocking and faking, and code coverage.

Utility

Libraries which provide general utility functions.

48731 Stars

Guava

Collections, caching, primitives support, concurrency libraries, common annotations, string processing, I/O, and more.

33862 Stars

Arthas

Allows to troubleshoot production issues for applications without modifying code or restarting servers.

5540 Stars

Gephi

Cross-platform for visualizing and manipulating large graph networks. (GPL-3.0-only)

2605 Stars

JavaVerbalExpressions

Library that helps with constructing difficult regular expressions.

2036 Stars

bucket4j

Rate limiting library based on token-bucket algorithm.

1704 Stars

Embulk

Bulk data loader that helps data transfer between various databases, storages, file formats, and cloud services.

1310 Stars

Dex

Java/JavaFX tool capable of powerful ETL and data visualization.

1129 Stars

Java Diff Utils

Utilities for text or data comparison and patching.

964 Stars

minio-java

Provides simple APIs to access any Amazon S3-compatible object storage server.

923 Stars

CRaSH

Provides a shell into a JVM that's running CRaSH. Used by Spring Boot and others. (LGPL-2.1-or-later)

895 Stars

Protégé

Provides an ontology editor and a framework to build knowledge-based systems.

716 Stars

cactoos

Collection of object-oriented primitives.

501 Stars

Underscore-java

Port of Underscore.js functions.

42 Stars

JGit

Lightweight, pure Java library implementing the Git version control system.

32 Stars

Chocotea

Generates postman collection, environment and integration tests from java code.

27 Stars

fswatch

Micro library to watch for directory file system changes, simplifying java.nio.file.WatchService.

Version Managers

Utilities that help create the development shell environment and switch between different Java versions.

5641 Stars

SDKMan

Java Version Manager inspired by RVM and rbenv. Supports UNIX-based platforms.

5244 Stars

jenv

Java Version Manager inspired by rbenv. Can configure globally or per project. Tested on Debian and macOS.

2770 Stars

jabba

Java Version Manager inspired by nvm. Supports macOS, Linux and Windows.

Web Crawling

Libraries that analyze the content of websites.

11027 Stars

webmagic

Scalable crawler with downloading, url management, content extraction and persistent.

10411 Stars

jsoup

Scrapes, parses, manipulates and cleans HTML.

4459 Stars

Crawler4j

Simple and lightweight web crawler.

2715 Stars

Apache Nutch

Highly extensible, highly scalable web crawler for production environments.

827 Stars

StormCrawler

SDK for building low-latency and scalable web crawlers.

Web Frameworks

Frameworks that handle the communication between the layers of a web application.

12472 Stars

Play

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

6867 Stars

Javalin

Microframework for web applications.

5819 Stars

Blade

Lightweight, modular framework that aims to be elegant and simple.

1928 Stars

Ratpack

Set of libraries that facilitate fast, efficient, evolvable and well-tested HTTP applications.

1908 Stars

Ninja

Full-stack web framework.

1762 Stars

Vaadin

Event-driven framework that uses standard web components. Server-side architecture with Ajax on the client side.

1680 Stars

PrimeFaces

JSF framework with both free and commercial/support versions and frontend components.

1616 Stars

Jooby

Scalable, fast and modular micro-framework that offers multiple programming models.

1406 Stars

Bootique

Minimally opinionated framework for runnable apps.

781 Stars

Pippo

Small, highly modularized, Sinatra-like framework.

780 Stars

Takes

Opinionated web framework which is built around the concepts of True Object-Oriented Programming and immutability.

742 Stars

ActiveJ

Lightweight asynchronous framework built from the ground up for developing high-performance web applications.

705 Stars

Apache Wicket

Component-based web application framework similar to Tapestry, with a stateful GUI.

289 Stars

Firefly

Asynchronous framework for rapid development of high-performance web application.

110 Stars

Apache Tapestry

Component-oriented framework for creating dynamic, robust, highly scalable web applications.

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