List of Java software and tools

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 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 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 natural language processing of 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

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.

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

Online IDEs

Eclipse Che GitHub Codespaces JDoodle Replit

Text editors with Java support Atom gedit GNU Emacs jEdit Kate Notepad++ Sublime Text TextMate Vim Visual Studio Code

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 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

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 developmenthttps://kotlinlang.org/docs/android-overview.html Renjin – R implementation Scala

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

Debugging and profiling tools jdb – Java debugger bundled with the JDK JConsole – JMX-compliant monitoring tool JDK Flight Recorder – method profiling, allocation profiling, and garbage collection related events. JProfiler – commercial Java profiler 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

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

See also Apache Commons – Apache Software Foundation maintaining of open-source Java software of formerly the Jakarta Project Google Guava – open-source set of common libraries for Java, mainly developed by Google engineers. Java code coverage tools Java Enterprise Edition (Jakarta EE) – extending Java SE for enterprise features such as distributed computing and web services Java Management Extensions – managing and monitoring applications, devices (such as printers) and service-oriented networks. List of Kotlin software and tools OpenJDK – open-source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) Outline of the Java programming language

External links OpenJDK Oracle Java Maven Central Repository

References