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Added Processing to Visualization attended a talk at DWX today about data visualization with Processing.
Removed Grails since it is for Groovy... too bad somebody should do an Awesome Groovy list!
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- [Template Engine](#template-engine)
- [Testing](#testing)
- [Utility](#utility)
- [Visualization](#visualization)
- [Web Crawling](#web-crawling)
- [Web Frameworks](#web-frameworks)
- [REST Frameworks](#rest-frameworks)
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*Tools which substitute expressions in a template*
* [Apache Velocity](http://velocity.apache.org/)
* [FreeMarker](http://freemarker.org/)
* [JavaServer Pages](https://jsp.java.net/)
* [Thymeleaf](http://www.thymeleaf.org/)
* [Apache Velocity](http://velocity.apache.org/) - Templates for HTML pages, emails or source code generation in general.
* [FreeMarker](http://freemarker.org/) - General templating engine without any heavyweight or opinionated dependencies.
* [JavaServer Pages](https://jsp.java.net/) - Aged templating for websites with custom tag libraries.
* [Thymeleaf](http://www.thymeleaf.org/) - Aims to be a substitute for JSP and works for XML files in general.
## Testing
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*Libraries which provide unspecific functionality, e.g. optimized datastructures*
* [Apache Commons](http://commons.apache.org/)
* [Google Guava](http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/)
* [Apache Commons](http://commons.apache.org/) - Several libraries which provide different general purpose functions like configuration, validation, collections, file upload or XML processing.
* [Google Guava](http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/) - Collections, caching, primitives support, concurrency libraries, common annotations, string processing, I/O, and so forth.
## Visualization
*Libraries or frameworks which allow you to visualize data*
* [Processing](https://www.processing.org/) - A project deeply rooted in visual art which allows you to program the visualization of data.
## Web Crawling
*Libraries that analyze the content of websites*
* [Apache Nutch](http://nutch.apache.org/)
* [Crawler4j](https://code.google.com/p/crawler4j/)
* [Apache Nutch](http://nutch.apache.org/) - Highly extensible, highly scalable Web crawler for production environment.
* [Crawler4j](https://code.google.com/p/crawler4j/) - Simple lightweight alternative.
* [jsoup](http://jsoup.org/) - Jsoup is a Java library for working with real-world HTML.
## Web Frameworks
*Frameworks that handle the communication between the layers of an web application*
* [Apache Tapestry](http://tapestry.apache.org/)
* [Spring](http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/)
* [Grails](https://grails.org/)
* [Vaadin](https://vaadin.com/)
* [GWT](http://www.gwtproject.org/)
* [Apache Wicket](http://wicket.apache.org/)
* [Play](http://www.playframework.com/)
* [PrimeFaces](http://primefaces.org/)
* [Spark](http://www.sparkjava.com/why.html)
* [Apache Tapestry](http://tapestry.apache.org/) - Component oriented framework for creating dynamic, robust, highly scalable web applications in Java.
* [Spring](http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/) - Aims to simplify the development with Java EE and provides packages for dependency injection and aspect-oriented programming.
* [Vaadin](https://vaadin.com/) - Event-driven framework build on top of GWT. Uses server-side architecture with Ajax on the client-side.
* [Google Web Toolkit](http://www.gwtproject.org/) - Toolbox which includes a Java-to-JavaScript compiler for client-side code, XML parser, API for RPC, JUnit integration, internationalization support and widgets for the GUI.
* [Apache Wicket](http://wicket.apache.org/) - Component-based web application framework similar to Tapestry with a stateful GUI.
* [Play](http://www.playframework.com/) - Uses convention over configuration, hot code reloading and display of errors in the browser.
* [PrimeFaces](http://primefaces.org/) - JSF framework which has a free and a commercial version with support. Provides several frontend components.
* [Spark](http://www.sparkjava.com/why.html) - Unique framework which focuses not on MVC but on rapid development.
## REST Frameworks