Java EE Resources

A collection of useful Java EE based resources, websites, libraries, etc.

IDE's

• IntelliJ https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/
• Eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/
• Apache NetBeans https://netbeans.apache.org/
• Visual Studio Code https://code.visualstudio.com/

Project management tool

• Maven http://maven.apache.org/
• Gradle https://gradle.org/
• Ant http://ant.apache.org/

Useful libraries & Open source projects

• Apache Foundation's https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?language#Java
• Google Guava https://github.com/google/guava

Dependency Injection

• Google Guice https://github.com/google/guice
• Google Tiger https://github.com/google/tiger

Persistence

• Hibernate http://hibernate.org/
• EclipseLink http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/
• OpenJPA http://openjpa.apache.org/
• Spring Data https://spring.io/projects/spring-data
• MyBatis https://mybatis.org

Job scheduler

• Quartz http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/
• Obsidian https://obsidianscheduler.com/
• Spring Scheduler https://spring.io/guides/gs/scheduling-tasks/

Authentication & authorization

• Apache Shiro https://shiro.apache.org
• JAAS (not an implementation) https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Authentication_and_Authorization_Service

Caching & clusters

• Cache2k https://cache2k.org/
• Google EhCache https://www.ehcache.org/
• Google Guava Cache https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/CachesExplained
• Caffeine https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine
• Redis(?) https://redis.io/
• JGroups
• Zookeeper
• Terracotta
• Akka

JAX-WS

• Metro(reference implementation) https://javaee.github.io/metro-jax-ws/
• Apache CXF http://cxf.apache.org
• Axis 2 http://axis.apache.org/axis2/java/core/

JAX-RS

• Jersey(reference implementation) https://jersey.github.io/
• RestEasy http://resteasy.jboss.org/
• Apache CXF http://cxf.apache.org

REST clients

• OpenFeign
• Retrofit2 (for Android)

Circuit breaker

• Hystrix
• Resilience4j

Object mapping

• Jackson https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson
• Gson https://github.com/google/gson
• Moshi https://github.com/square/moshi
• org.json

GUI & UI frameworks

• Vaadin https://vaadin.com/
• ZK https://www.zkoss.org/
• Zurb Foundations https://foundation.zurb.com/
• Grails https://grails.org/
• Play 2 https://www.playframework.com/
• JSF http://www.javaserverfaces.org/

Web frameworks

• GWT http://www.gwtproject.org/
• Struts https://struts.apache.org/

Document generation

• Apache FOP https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/
• Jasper Reports https://community.jaspersoft.com/
• BIRT https://www.eclipse.org/birt/

Utility

• Google Guava https://github.com/google/guava
• Apache Commons https://commons.apache.org/

Testing

• JUnit https://junit.org/junit5/
• Test NG http://testng.org/doc/
• Mockito http://site.mockito.org/
• EasyMock http://easymock.org/
• PowerMock https://github.com/powermock/powermock
• Arquillian (IT testing) http://arquillian.org/
• DBUnit http://dbunit.sourceforge.net/

Database migration

• Liquibase http://www.liquibase.org/
• FlyWay https://flywaydb.org/

Logging

• Log4J https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Log4j
• Commons Logging https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-logging/
• LogBack https://logback.qos.ch/
• SLF4J (only an API) https://www.slf4j.org/

Continous Integration

• Jenkins https://jenkins.io/
• Travis CI https://travis-ci.org/

Websites && Online tutorials

• DZone https://dzone.com
• JavaWorld http://www.javaworld.com
• Baeldung http://www.baeldung.com/
• MyKong https://www.mkyong.com/
• Vogella https://www.vogella.com/tutorials/java.html
• TutorialsPoint https://www.tutorialspoint.com/java_technology_tutorials.htm
• W3Schools https://www.w3schools.com/java/

Spring Framework && Spring Boot

• Guides https://spring.io/guides

Enterprise Edition

• Jakarta EE https://jakarta.ee/

Application and web containers

• GlassFish https://javaee.github.io/glassfish/
• WebLogic https://www.oracle.com/middleware/weblogic/
• Jboss http://www.jboss.org/
• WildFly https://wildfly.org/
• Tom EE https://tomee.apache.org/
• Tomcat http://tomcat.apache.org/
• Jetty https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/

Microservices

• Quarkus
• Micronaut
• Helidon
• Eclipse Microprofile

Cloud

• Spring Cloud Function https://spring.io/projects/spring-cloud-function
• Kubernetes Java client https://github.com/kubernetes-client/java

Big tech company libs

• Netflix OSS https://netflix.github.io/