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

Main article: List of Java frameworks

Libraries

See also: Category:Java (programming language) 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

See also: List of numerical libraries for Java and List of arbitrary-precision arithmetic software

• 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

Main article: Comparison of IDEs for Java

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

See also: List of online integrated development environments

• 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^[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

See also: Comparison of Java virtual machines, List of Java virtual machines, and List of Java compilers

• 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

See also: List of JVM languages

• Clojure — Lisp dialect
• Groovy
• JRuby — Ruby implementation
• Jython — Python implementation
• Kotlin
• Renjin – R implementation
• Scala^[6]

Application servers and containers

See also: List of application servers for Java

• 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^[7]

Debugging and profiling tools

• jdb — Java debugger bundled with the JDK^[8]
• JConsole — JMX-compliant monitoring tool
• JDK Flight Recorder — method profiling, allocation profiling, and garbage collection related events.
• JProfiler — commercial Java profiler^[9]
• VisualVM — visual tool integrating commandline JDK tools for profiling and monitoring

Testing and quality assurance

See also: List of unit testing frameworks for Java

• 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^[10]

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.
• OpenJDK — open-source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE)

External links

• OpenJDK
• Oracle Java
• Maven Central Repository