Awesome

Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics.

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Awesome Java

https://github.com/akullpp/awesome-java

A curated list of awesome frameworks, libraries and software for the Java programming language.

The meaning of curated is carefully chosen and thoughtfully organized or presented.

JVM and JDK

• Adopt Open JDK- Community-driven OpenJDK builds, including both HotSpot and OpenJ9.
• Graal - Polyglot embeddable JVM. (GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0)
• Open JDK - Open JDK community home. (GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0)
• Zulu - OpenJDK builds for Windows, Linux, and macOS. (GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0)
• ...

GUI

• JavaFX - Successor of Swing.
  • https://www.baeldung.com/javafx
• Scene Builder - Visual layout tool for JavaFX applications.
• SWT - Graphical widget toolkit (much better than AWT and Swing)

Game Development

• FXGL - JavaFX Game Development Framework.
  • https://github.com/AlmasB
  • https://www.youtube.com/c/AlmasB0
• JBox2D - Port of the renowned C++ 2D physics engine.
• jMonkeyEngine - Game engine for modern 3D development.
• libGDX - All-round cross-platform, high-level framework.
• LWJGL - Robust framework that abstracts libraries like OpenGL/CL/AL.

Web Frameworks

• Apache Tapestry - Component-oriented framework for creating dynamic, robust, highly scalable web applications.
  • https://www.baeldung.com/apache-tapestry
• Firefly - Asynchronous framework for rapid development of high-performance web application.
• Vaadin - Event-driven framework that uses standard web components. Server-side architecture with Ajax on the client side.
  • https://www.baeldung.com/vaadin

Workflow Orchestration Engines

• Cadence - Stateful code platform from Uber.
• flowable - Compact and efficient workflow and business process management platform.
  • https://www.baeldung.com/flowable
• Temporal - Microservice orchestration platform, forked from Cadence but gRPC based.

Database

• H2 - Small SQL database notable for its in-memory functionality.
  • https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-h2-database
• HikariCP - High-performance JDBC connection pool.
  • https://www.baeldung.com/hikaricp
• HSQLDB - 100% Java Database
• ...

ORM

• Hibernate - Robust and widely used, with an active community. (LGPL-2.1-only)
  • https://www.baeldung.com/learn-jpa-hibernate
• MyBatis - Couples objects with stored procedures or SQL statements.
  • https://www.baeldung.com/mybatis

Machine Learning

• Apache Flink - Fast, reliable, large-scale data processing engine.
  • https://www.baeldung.com/apache-flink
• Apache Mahout - Scalable algorithms focused on collaborative filtering, clustering and classification.
• Deeplearning4j - Distributed and multi-threaded deep learning library.
  • https://www.baeldung.com/deeplearning4j
• H2O - Analytics engine for statistics over big data.

Bytecode Manipulation

• ASM - All-purpose, low-level bytecode manipulation and analysis.
  • https://www.baeldung.com/java-asm
• Javassist - Tries to simplify bytecode editing.
  • https://www.baeldung.com/javassist

Code Generators

• Lombok - Code generator that aims to reduce verbosity.
  • https://www.baeldung.com/lombok-with-annotations
• JHipster - Yeoman source code generator for Spring Boot and AngularJS.
  • https://www.baeldung.com/jhipster

Compiler-compiler

• ANTLR - Complex full-featured framework for top-down parsing.

Terence Parr is the maniac behind ANTLR and has been working on language tools since 1989. He is a professor of computer science at the University of San Francisco.

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1n441137ex

Computer Vision

• BoofCV - Library for image processing, camera calibration, tracking, SFM, MVS, 3D vision, QR Code and much more.
• ImageJ - Medical image processing application with an API.
• JavaCV - Java interface to OpenCV, FFmpeg, and much more.
  • https://www.baeldung.com/java-capture-image-from-webcam

Constraint Satisfaction Problem Solver

• Choco - Off-the-shelf constraint satisfaction problem solver that uses constraint programming techniques.
• JaCoP - Includes an interface for the FlatZinc language, enabling it to execute MiniZinc models. (AGPL-3.0)
• OptaPlanner - Business planning and resource scheduling optimization solver.

Document Processing

• Apache POI - Supports OOXML (XLSX, DOCX, PPTX) as well as OLE2 (XLS, DOC or PPT).
  • https://www.baeldung.com/java-microsoft-word-with-apache-poi
• documents4j - API for document format conversion using third-party converters such as MS Word.
• docx4j - Create and manipulate Microsoft Open XML files.
• fastexcel - High performance library to read and write large Excel (XLSX) worksheets.

Others

• Apache Lucene - High-performance, full-featured, cross-platform, text search engine library.
  • https://www.baeldung.com/lucene
• Akka - Toolkit and runtime for building concurrent, distributed, fault-tolerant and event-driven applications.
  • https://www.baeldung.com/akka-actors-java
• Spring - Provides many packages for dependency injection, aspect-oriented programming, security, etc.