Highlights of 110 well-known Java Projects

Project name				Project Description http://andyluo.blogjava.net
ASM				Java bytecode manipulation framework
Aspectwerkz				Aspectwerkz-dynamic AOP for Java
Axis				Axis-an implementation of the soap (Simple Object Access Protocol) Submission to W3C
Batik				Batik SVG toolkit-Toolkit using images in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Format
Bcel				Byte Code Engineering Library-analyze, create and manipulate Java class files
Beanutils				Beanutils-utilities for working with JavaBeans
Catalina				Catalina-Servlet and JSP based Web Server
Cayenne				Professional object relational mapping
Cglib				Cglib-dynamic byte code generatorhttp: // andyluo.blogjava.net
Chain				Chain-Implementation of the gof "chain of responsibility" Pattern
Checkstyle				Checkstyle-development tool to help writing Java code that adheres to a coding standard
CLI				Command Line library-Simple API for working with the command line arguments and options
Codec				Commons codec-encoders and decoders like base64, Hex, phonetic encodings and URLs
Collections				Collections-filling the holes left in Sun's collections API
Configuration				Commons configuration-generic API enabling configuration from a variety of sources
DBCP				DBCP-Connection Pooling implementations
Dbutils				Dbutils-set of classes designed to make working with JDBC easier
Digester				Struts Digester-Configure an XML/Java mapping with actions when patterns are recognized
Discovery				Discovery-Discovering, or finding, implementations for pluggable interfaces
DNSJava				DNS in Java-Supporting common record types, queries, zone transfers and dynamic updates
Doclet				JavaDoc Doclet-Custom output from the types methods and fields in a source tree.
Dom4j				DOM4J-XML, XPath and XSLT library
DTDParser				DTDParse DTD Library-You can use this library to parse a DTD
EL				EL-The JSPs 2.0 Expression Language Interpreter from Apache
Fastutil				FastUtil-Type-specific maps sets and lists with a small memory footprint and fast access
FileUpload				Http File Upload library-add robust, fast file upload capability to your web applications
Freemarker				HTML template enginehttp: // andyluo.blogjava.net
Gjt				Giant Java tree-Java library consisting entirely of open source components
GNU-RegEx				GNU regular expressions-implementation of a traditional (non-POSIX) NFA RegEx Engine
Groovy				Groovy-scripting language
Hibernate				Hibernate-relational persistence for idiomatic Java
Hivemind				Hivemind-a services and configuration microkernel
HSQLDB				HSQLDB-the Java SQL Relational Database
Htmlparser				HTML Parser-Java library used to parse HTML
Httpclient				HTTP Client-Fills holes left by the java.net package, including most recent HTTP standards
Informa				Informa-News aggregation library
IO				Commons-IO-Utility classes, stream implementations, file filters and endian classes for IO
IText				IText-Generates PDF on the fly
J2EE				Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
J2SE				Java2 Standard Edition v5
JAI				Java Advanced Imaging-Network-enabled, scalable, platform-independent image processing
Jalopy				Jalopy Source Formatter-Formats Java source code according to widely retriable rules
Jasper				Jasper-Tomcat JSP enginehttp: // andyluo.blogjava.net
JasperReports				JasperReports-Free Java reporting library
Java3d				Java3D-Object-oriented interfaces that support a simple, high-level programming mode
JavaComm				Java Communications-API for technologies such as voice mail, fax and smartcards
JavaGroups				JavaGroups-Reliable multicast communication enable processes to send messages to each other
Jaxen				Jaxen XPath Processor-Object model walker; evaluate XPath expressions in dom4j and JDOM
JAXME				JaxMe 2-Open source implementation of JAXB
JClassLib				JClassLib-Library for reading, modifing and writing Java class files and bytecode
JCommon				JCommon-Collection of useful classes used by JFreeChart, JFreeReport and other projects
JCrontab				JCronTab-Scheduler written in Java, provide a fully functional schedules for Java projects
JDIC				JDIC-jdesktop integration components
Jdnc				Jdnc-jdesktop network components
JDO				Java data objects-Direct storage of Java domain model instances into a database
JDOM				Jdom xml library-for accessing, manipulating and outputting XML data from Java code.
Jetspeed				Jetspeed-Java Portal Server
Jexl				Java Expression Language-is an embedable Expression Language Engine
Jfreechart				Jfreechart-free library for generating charts, including pie, bar, line and areas charts
Jgroups				Jgroups-Multicast Communication Toolkit
Jmeter				Jmeter-Load Testing applcation
JMF				Java media framework-library for audio, video and other time-based Media
Jmock				Jmock-testing Library
JSF	Assumerver faces-Web Framework
Jsword	Jsword-Bible software in Java, compatible with the sword project for C/C ++
Jtidy	Jtidy-HTML syntax checker
JUnit	JUnit-regression testing framework used by the developer who implements unit tests in Java
Jxpath	Jxpath library-simple interpreter of an expression language called xpath
Lang	Lang-utilities including enums, string manipulation, reflection, serialization and more
Log4j	Log4j-fast logging API that lets you configure logging at runtime
Logging	Commons logging-simple wrapper API around multiple logging APIs
Lucene	Lucene-high-performance, full-featured text search engine written entirely in Java
Math	Math-Library of lightweight, self-contained mathematics and statistics components
Net	Network Library-Support for Finger, Whois, TFTP, Telnet, FTP, NNTP, etc developed by ORO
OJB	OJB-O/R tool that allows transparent persistence
OpenJMS	Open source JMS server
ORO	ORO-Text processing library
OSCache	OSCache-A high performance J2EE caching framework
PJA	Pure Java AWT-Toolkit for drawing graphics without any native graphics resources
PMD	PMD-Scans Java source code for potential problems
POI	POI-Java OLE 2 Manipulator
Pool	Commons Pooling-provides an generic, retriable Object-pooling API
Primitives	Primitives-Collection of types and utilities optimized for working with Java primitives
Proxool	Java connection pool
Quartz	Quartz-J2EE open source job scheduler
Regexp	Jakarta Regular Expressions-Java RegEx library under BSD style license
Rhino	Mozilla JavaScript-open-source implementation of JavaScript written entirely in Java
Seraph	Seraph-Atlassian Security Framework
SiteMesh	A web-page layout and decoration framework
Slide	Slide-Content repository, can serve as a basis for CMS
SOAP	Apache Soap-implementation of the SOAP submission to W3C
Speedo	Oss jdo implementationhttp: // andyluo.blogjava.net
Spring	Server Side alternative to J2EE APIs
Struts	Jakarta Struts-open source framework for building web applications
Tapestry	Tapestry-Web Framework
Turbine	Turbine-Servlet based framework allowing developers to quickly build secure web applications
UDDI4J	UDDI4J-Library that provides an API to interact with a UDDI registry
Validator	Validtator-Validate data from user input
Velocity	Velocity-Support for clean, quick MVC web development and support for the Struts framework
Village	Village-API that sits on top of the JDBC to make it easier to interact with a JDBC
WebWork 2	Next generation of WebWork
Xalan	Xalan-XSLT processor for transforming XML documents into HTML, text, or XML
XDoclet	XDoclet-Code generation engine
Xerces	Xerces2-The next generation of high performance, XML parsers in the Apache Xerces family
XMLBeans	XMLBeans-XML-Java binding toolhttp: // andyluo.blogjava.net
XMLPull	XMLPull-Defines a simple pull parsing API that does pull XML parsing from J2EE to J2EE
XMLRPC	XML-RPC-Implementation of the XML-RPC, using XML over HTTP to implement remote procedure CILS
XNI	Xerces Native Interface-Framework for streaming a document and constructing generic parsers
XOM	XML Object Model-Tree-based API for processing XML that strives for correctness and simplicity.
XStream	XML serialization