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## Build Tool
*Tools which handle the buildcycle of an application*
*Tools which handle the buildcycle of an application.*
* [Apache Maven](http://maven.apache.org/) - Declarative lifecycle and dependency managment which favors convention over configuration. It's regarded as spiritual successor to [Apache Ant](http://ant.apache.org/).
* [Gradle](http://www.gradle.org/) - Incremental builds which are programmed via Groovy.
* [Apache Maven](http://maven.apache.org/) - Declarative build and dependency managment which favors convention over configuration. It's preferable to [Apache Ant](http://ant.apache.org/) which uses a rather procedural approach which can be difficult to maintain.
* [Gradle](http://www.gradle.org/) - Incremental builds which are programmed via Groovy instead of declaring XML. Works well with Maven's dependency management and treats Ant scripts as first-class citizens.
## Code Analysis
*Tools that provide metrics and quality measurements of static code*
*Tools that provide metrics and quality measurements of static code.*
* [SonarQube](http://www.sonarqube.org/) - Inspection tool for code quality.
* [FindBugs](http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/) - Static analysis to find potential bugs.
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## Compiler-compiler
*Tools that create parsers, interpreters or compilers*
*Tools that create parsers, interpreters or compilers.*
* [ANTLR](http://www.antlr.org/) - Complex full-featured framework.
* [JavaCC](https://javacc.java.net/) - More specific and slightly easier to learn.
## Continuous Integration
*Tools which support continuously building, testing and releasing applications*
*Tools which support continuously building, testing and releasing applications.*
* [Jenkins](http://jenkins-ci.org/) - Provides server-based CI services, often seen as the successor to [Hudson](http://hudson-ci.org/).
## Database
*Everything which simplifies interactions with the database*
*Everything which simplifies interactions with the database.*
* [jOOQ](http://www.jooq.org/) - Generates typesafe code based on SQL schema.
* [Liquibase](http://www.liquibase.org/) - Source control for your database which can be embedded.
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## Dependency Injection
*Libraries that help to realize the [Inversion Of Control](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_of_control) paradigm*
*Libraries that help to realize the [Inversion Of Control](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_of_control) paradigm.*
* [Dagger](http://square.github.io/dagger/) - Compile-time injection framework without reflection, mainly for Android.
* [Google Guice](http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Guice) - Lightweight DI framework.
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## Development
*Tools with augment the process of development at a fundamental level*
*Tools with augment the process of development at a fundamental level.*
* [DCEVM](http://ssw.jku.at/dcevm/) - Modification of the JVM that allows unlimited redefinition of loaded classes at runtime.
* [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*
*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.
* [JGroups](http://www.jgroups.org/) - Toolkit for reliable messaging and creating clusters whose nodes can send messages to each other.
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## GUI
*Libraries to create modern graphical user interfaces*
*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.
## Game Development
*Frameworks that support the development of games*
*Frameworks that support the development of games.*
* [LWJGL](http://lwjgl.org/) - Robust framework that abstracts libraries like OpenGL/CL/AL.
* [libGDX](http://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/) - Allround cross-plattform, high-level framework.
## High Performance
*Everything about high performance computation, from collections to specific libraries*
*Everything about high performance computation, from collections to specific libraries.*
* [Trove](http://trove.starlight-systems.com/) - Primitive collections.
* [HPPC](http://labs.carrotsearch.com/hppc.html) - Primitive collections.
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## IDE
*Integrated development environments that try to simplify several aspects of development*
*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.
* [Eclipse](http://www.eclipse.org/) - Does a lot of things in the background. Noteworthy are its large amount of plugins.
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## JVM and JDK
*Various implementations of the JVM/JDK*
*Various implementations of the JVM/JDK.*
* [HotSpot](http://openjdk.java.net/groups/hotspot/) - Official JVM.
* [JDK 9](https://jdk9.java.net/) - Early access releases of JDK 9.
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## JSON
*Libraries that simplify JSON processing*
*Libraries that simplify JSON processing.*
* [Google Gson](https://code.google.com/p/google-gson/) - Serializes Java objects to JSON and vice versa. Good performance with on-the-fly usage.
* [Jackson](http://wiki.fasterxml.com/JacksonHome) - Similar to GSON but has performance gains if you need to instantiate the library more often.
## Logging
*Libraries that log the behavior of an application*
*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.
* [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.
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## Machine Learning
*Tools that allow to learn from data via a set of specific algorithms*
*Tools that allow to learn from data via a set of specific algorithms.*
* [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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## Messaging
*Tools that help sending messages between clients to ensure protocol independency*
*Tools that help sending messages between clients to ensure protocol independency.*
* [Apache ActiveMQ](http://activemq.apache.org/) - Open-source message broker that implements JMS and converts synchronous to asynchronous communication
* [JBoss HornetQ](http://hornetq.jboss.org/) - Clear, concise, modular and made to be embedded.
## Miscellaneous
*Everything else*
*Everything else.*
* [Jimfs](https://github.com/google/jimfs) - In-memory file system.
* [Lombok](http://projectlombok.org/) - Code-generator which aims to reduce the verbosity of Java.
## Natural Language Processing
*Libraries that are specialized on processing text*
*Libraries that are specialized 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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## ORM
*APIs which handle the persistence of objects*
*APIs which handle the persistence of objects.*
* [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
*Everything that helps with the creation of PDF files*
*Everything that helps with the creation of PDF files.*
* [Apache FOP](http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/) - Creates PDF from XSL-FO.
* [Apache PDFBox](http://pdfbox.apache.org/) - Toolbox for creating and manipulating PDF.
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## Security
*Libraries that handle security, authentication, authorization or session management*
*Libraries that handle security, authentication, authorization or session management.*
* [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.
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## Science
*Libraries for scientific computing and analysis*
*Libraries for scientific computing and analysis.*
* [JScience](http://www.jscience.org/) - Comprehensive framework of science related libraries.
* [JTransforms](https://sites.google.com/site/piotrwendykier/software/jtransforms) - Multithread FFT library.
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## Server
*Servers which are specifically used to deploy applications*
*Servers which are specifically used to deploy applications.*
* [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.
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## Template Engine
*Tools which substitute expressions in a template*
*Tools which substitute expressions in a template.*
* [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.
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## Testing
*Tools that test from object to interface level including performance and other benchmarks*
*Tools that test from object to interface level including performance and other benchmarks.*
* [AssertJ](http://joel-costigliola.github.io/assertj/) - Fluent assertions.
* [Apache JMeter](http://jmeter.apache.org/) - Functional testing and performance measurements.
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## Utility
*Libraries which provide unspecific functionality, e.g. optimized datastructures*
*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.
* [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*
*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*
*Libraries that analyze the content of websites.*
* [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.
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## Web Frameworks
*Frameworks that handle the communication between the layers of an web application*
*Frameworks that handle the communication between the layers of an web application.*
* [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.
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## REST Frameworks
*Frameworks specifically for creating RESTful services*
*Frameworks specifically for creating RESTful services.*
* [Dropwizard](https://dropwizard.github.io/dropwizard/) - Opinionated framework for setting up modern web applications, includes Jetty, Jackson, Jersey and Metrics.
* [Jersey](https://jersey.java.net/) - JAX-RS reference implementation.
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## Communities
*Active discussions*
*Active discussions.*
* [r/java](http://www.reddit.com/r/java) - Subreddit for the Java community.
* [stackoverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java)
## Influental Books
*Books about Java that had a high impact and are still worth reading*
*Books about Java that had a high impact and are still worth reading.*
* [Effective Java (2nd Edition)](http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Java-Edition-Joshua-Bloch/dp/0321356683)
* [Java Concurrency in Practice](http://www.amazon.com/Java-Concurrency-Practice-Brian-Goetz/dp/0321349601)
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## Podcasts
*Something to listen to while programming*
*Something to listen to while programming.*
* [The Java Posse](http://www.javaposse.com/)
## Twitter
*People to follow*
*People to follow.*
* [Adam Bien](https://twitter.com/AdamBien/)
* [Antonio Goncalves](https://twitter.com/agoncal/)
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## Websites
*Sites to read*
*Sites to read.*
* [Java.net](http://java.net/)
* [JavaWorld](http://www.javaworld.com/)