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*Tools that create parsers, interpreters or compilers.*
* [ANTLR](http://www.antlr.org/) - Complex full-featured framework for top-down parsing.
* [JavaCC](https://javacc.java.net/) - More specific and slightly easier to learn with syntactic lookahead.
* [JavaCC](https://javacc.java.net/) - More specific and slightly easier to learn. Has syntactic lookahead.
## Continuous Integration
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* [JRebel](http://zeroturnaround.com/software/jrebel/) - Instantly reloads code and configuration changes without redeploys.
## Distributed Applications
*Libraries and frameworks used to ease writing distributed and fault-tolerant applications.*
* [Akka](http://akka.io) - Toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and fault tolerant event-driven applications on the JVM.
* [Akka](http://akka.io) - Toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and fault tolerant event-driven applications.
* [JGroups](http://www.jgroups.org/) - Toolkit for reliable messaging and creating clusters whose nodes can send messages to each other.
* [Apache ZooKeeper](http://zookeeper.apache.org/) - Coordination service with distributed configuration, synchronization, and naming registry for large distributed systems.
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*Libraries to create modern graphical user interfaces.*
* [JavaFX](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/overview/javafx-overview-2158620.html) - Considered the successor of [Swing](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/architecture-142923.html).
* [Scene Builder](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/javafxscenebuilder-info-2157684.html) - Visual Layout Tool for JavaFX Applications.
* [JavaFX](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/overview/javafx-overview-2158620.html) - The successor of Swing.
* [Scene Builder](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/javafxscenebuilder-info-2157684.html) - Visual layout tool for JavaFX applications.
## Game Development
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*Integrated development environments that try to simplify several aspects of development.*
* [NetBeans](https://netbeans.org/) - Integrates a lot of features and provides tools ranging from Java SE to EE starting with database access and servers to HTML5 and AngularJS.
* [NetBeans](https://netbeans.org/) - Provides integration for several Java SE and EE features starting with database access and servers to HTML5 and AngularJS.
* [Eclipse](http://www.eclipse.org/) - Does a lot of things in the background. Noteworthy are its large amount of plugins.
* [IntelliJ IDEA](http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/) - Supports a lot of JVM languages and provides good options for Android development. The commercial edition targets the enterprise sector.
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*Libraries that log the behavior of an application.*
* [Apache Log4j 2](http://logging.apache.org/log4j/) - Complete rewrite of the previous software. Now has a powerful plugin and configuration architecture.
* [Apache Log4j 2](http://logging.apache.org/log4j/) - Complete rewrite of the previous version. Now has a powerful plugin and configuration architecture.
* [Logback](http://logback.qos.ch/) - Founded by the same developer as Log4j and proves to be a robust logging library with interesting configuration options via Groovy.
* [SLF4J](http://www.slf4j.org/) - Abstraction layer which is to be used with an implementation.
## Machine Learning
*Tools that allow to learn from data via a set of specific algorithms.*
*Tools that provide specific statistical algorithms which allow to learn from data.*
* [Apache Hadoop](http://hadoop.apache.org/) - Open-source software framework for storage and large-scale processing of data-sets on clusters of commodity hardware.
* [Apache Mahout](https://mahout.apache.org/) - Scalable algorithms focused on collaborative filtering, clustering and classification.
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## Natural Language Processing
*Libraries that are specialized on processing text.*
*Libraries that specialize on processing text.*
* [Apache OpenNLP](https://opennlp.apache.org/) - Toolkit for common tasks like tokenization.
* [LingPipe](http://alias-i.com/lingpipe/) - Toolkit for a variety of tasks ranging from POS tagging to sentiment analysis.
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*APIs which handle the persistence of objects.*
* [EclipseLink](https://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/) - Supports a number of persistence standards: JPA, JAXB, JCA and SDO
* [EclipseLink](https://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/) - Supports a number of persistence standards: JPA, JAXB, JCA and SDO.
* [Hibernate](http://hibernate.org/orm/) - Robust and widely used with an active community.
## PDF
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* [Apache Shiro](http://shiro.apache.org/) - Performs authentication, authorization, cryptography and session management.
* [Keycloak](http://keycloak.jboss.org/) - Integrated SSO and IDM for browser apps and RESTful web services. Currently in beta but looks very promising.
* [PicketLink](http://picketlink.org/) - PicketLink is an umbrella project for security and identity management for Java Applications.
* [Spring Security](http://projects.spring.io/spring-security/) - Focuses on authentication and authorization and protects against several attack vectors.
* [PicketLink](http://picketlink.org/) - PicketLink is an umbrella project for security and identity management for Java applications.
* [Spring Security](http://projects.spring.io/spring-security/) - Focuses on authentication/authorization and protects against several attack vectors.
## Science
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* [GlassFish](https://glassfish.java.net/) - Open source reference implementation for Java EE sponsored by Oracle.
* [WildFly](http://www.wildfly.org/) - Formerly known as JBoss and developed by Red Hat with extensive Java EE support.
* [Jetty](http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/) - Lightweight, small server often embedded in projects. Part of the Eclipse Foundation.
* [Jetty](http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/) - Lightweight, small server, often embedded in projects.
* [Apache Tomcat](http://tomcat.apache.org/) - Robust all-round server for Servlet and JSP.
* [Apache TomEE](http://tomee.apache.org/) - Tomcat plus Java EE.
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* [Mockito](http://code.google.com/p/mockito/) - Creation of test double objects in automated unit tests for the purpose of TDD or BDD.
* [Selenium](http://docs.seleniumhq.org/) - Portable software testing framework for web applications.
* [TestNG](http://testng.org/) - Testing framework.
* [VisualVM](http://visualvm.java.net/) - Visual interface for viewing detailed information about Java applications while they are running on a JVM
* [VisualVM](http://visualvm.java.net/) - Visual interface for viewing detailed information about Java applications while they are running on a JVM.
## Utility
*Libraries which provide unspecific functionality, e.g. optimized datastructures.*
* [Apache Commons](http://commons.apache.org/) - Several libraries which provide different general purpose functions like configuration, validation, collections, file upload or XML processing.
* [Apache Commons](http://commons.apache.org/) - Provides 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
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* [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.
* [jsoup](http://jsoup.org/) - Scrapes, parses, manipulates and cleans HTML.
## Web Frameworks
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* [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.
* [Spark](http://www.sparkjava.com/why.html) - Unique framework which focuses not on complex MVC patterns but on rapid development.
## REST Frameworks
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*Active discussions.*
* [r/java](http://www.reddit.com/r/java) - Subreddit for the Java community.
* [stackoverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java)
* [stackoverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java) - Question/answer platform.
## Influential Books