JavaToolbox Latest Additions

MT4J

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:42:56 GMT

MT4j (Multitouch for Java) is an open source development platform, created for rapid developement of graphically rich applications.
MT4j is designed to support different kinds of input devices with a special focus on multitouch support.

Features include:
- can be used for 2D, 3D or 2.5D (pseudo-3D) applications
- cross-platform (currently tested under Windows 7, XP, Vista and Ubuntu Linux)
- extensible, component based scene graph structure (similar to the Swing framework)
- input abstraction layer: support for all sorts of input devices can be added
- supports the Windows 7 touch features natively and all the compliant multi-touch hardware
- supports the TUIO protocol, which is provided by finger and object tracking software such as Reactivision, CCV or Touché
- flexible multitouch gesture system: you can define your own multitouch gestures
- the most common multitouch gestures are already included and can be registered modularly with any component for a pluggable behaviour changeable at runtime
- software or hardware accelerated graphics rendering (using OpenGL)
- includes many graphical objects e.g.: rectangles, round rectangles, ellipses, polygons, lines, triangle meshes, spheres, cubes, etc. with support for textures, gradients, fill and outline color
- includes prebuilt UI components: buttons, text, lists, sliders and a multitouch enabled keyboard
- support for loading and fast rendering of vector graphics from SVG files
- supports bitmap and vector fonts (SVG and True Type Fonts)
- imports 3D objects from .3ds and .obj files
- precise picking/selection of all geometric objects in 2D or 3D space
- animation support
- built on top of Processing, which allows you to use its many features and libraries
- test your multitouch application by using one or even multiple mice connected to your PC

Categories:

Rich client UI - Swing

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CXF

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:44:22 GMT

Open source services framework.
CXF helps you build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as HTTP, JMS or JBI.

CXF is primarily focused on the following areas:
- Web Services Standards Support: CXF supports a variety of web service standards including SOAP, the WSI Basic Profile, WSDL, WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Security, WS-SecurityPolicy, and WS-SecureConversation.
- Frontends: CXF supports a variety of "frontend" programming models. CXF implements the JAX-WS APIs (TCK compliant). It also includes a "simple frontend" which allows creation of clients and endpoints without annotations. CXF supports both contract first development with WSDL and code first development starting from Java. For REST, CXF also supports a JAX-RS (TCK compliant) frontend.
- Ease of use: There are simple APIs to quickly build code-first services, Maven plug-ins to make tooling integration easy, JAX-WS API support, Spring 2.x XML support to make configuration a snap, and more.
- Binary and Legacy Protocol Support: CXF has been designed to provide a pluggable architecture that supports not only XML but also non-XML type bindings, such as JSON and CORBA, in combination with any type of transport.

Categories:

Remote Invocation - RPC

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Axis2

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:43:10 GMT

Web Services / SOAP / WSDL engine, successor to the Apache Axis SOAP stack.
There are two implementations of the Apache Axis2 Web services engine: Apache Axis2/Java and Apache Axis2/C.

Apache Axis2 not only supports SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2, but it also has integrated support for the REST style of Web services . The same business logic implementation can offer both a WS-* style interface as well as a REST/POX style interface simultaneously.

Modules include:
- WS-ReliableMessaging, supported by Apache Sandesha2
- WS-Coordination and WS-AtomicTransaction, supported by Apache Kandula2
- WS-Security, supported by Apache Rampart
- WS-Addressing, included as part of Axis2 core

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Remote Invocation - RPC

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Hibernate Profiler

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:45:44 GMT

Hibernate Profiler (H Prof) is a real-time visual debugger for Hibernate.

Features include:
- Visual insight into the interaction between your database and application code
- Analysis and detection of common pitfalls when using Hibernate
- Analysis is delivered via SQL and linkable code execution
- Supports Hibernate 3.x and up
- Integration with Spring applications

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JRockit Mission Control

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:23:18 GMT

Tools suite that includes tools to monitor, manage, profile, and eliminate memory leaks in Java applications.
Integrates with Eclipse.

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JRockit JDK

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:18:00 GMT

The Oracle JRockit JDK provides tools, utilities, and a complete runtime environment for developing and running applications using the Java programming language. The JRockit JDK includes the Oracle JRockit Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

The JRockit JVM brings real time infrastructure capabilities with JRockit Real Time and JVM diagnostics with JRockit Mission Control.
The JRockit JVM is developed and optimized for 32 and 64-bit Intel architectures.

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GridGain

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:17:06 GMT

Cloud computing development platform.
GridGain provides developers with technology to develop and run applications on private or public clouds. It is developed in Java and for Java developers and it is a natural extension of the latest Java development methodologies including annotations, integration of Spring and AOP-based grid-enabling.

Features include:
- Hybrid cloud deployment
- Cloud aware communication and deployment
- Affinity map/reduce
- Annotation-based grid-enabling with AOP
- SPI-based integration and customization
- Load balancing and scheduling
- Pluggable fault-tolerance
- One compute grid - many data grids
- Zero deployment model
- JMX-based management and monitoring

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Miscellaneous

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Connector/J

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:40:36 GMT

Official JDBC driver for MySQL.

Connector/J 5.1 includes support for JDBC-4.0 functionality, including:
- Auto-registration with the DriverManager via the service provider mechanism
- Standardized connection validity checks
- Categorized SQLExceptions based on recoverability/retry-ability and class of the underlying error
- Unwrapping to interfaces that include vendor extensions
- Support for XML processing via JAXP interfaces to DOM, SAX and StAX
- Support for setting per-connection client information
- Support for JDBC-4.0 NCHAR, NVARCHAR and NCLOB types

Categories:

JDBC

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WindowsAzure4j

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:24:04 GMT

Windows Azure SDK for Java.
WindowsAzure4j is an open source project that provides a software development kit for Windows Azure and Windows Azure Storage - Blobs, tables and queues.
It enables Java developers to take advantage of the Microsoft Cloud Services Platform - Windows Azure.

Features include:
- Java classes for Windows Azure blobs, tables and queues (for CRUD operations)
- Helper classes for HTTP transport, AuthN/AuthZ, REST and error management
- Manageability, instrumentation and logging support
- Support for storing Java sessions in Azure Table Storage

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Miscellaneous

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Source Code Search Engine

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:07:55 GMT

Source code search engine.
Provides an interactive interface enabling one to search across a large source code base, using the language structure of each of the languages providing more precise answers than simple string searches can produce. For any query, the Search Engine offers a list of matches with surrounding context; the use can select a specific match and immediately inspect the source file.

Features include:
- Interactive search and inspection of source code
- Search across millions of lines of code, tens of thousands of source code files
- Query in terms of language lexical constructs such as identifiers, numbers, operators, string literals or comments to minimize false positives
- Generic queries can match identifiers or string literals across multiple programming languages
- Complex queries can match complex statements
- Queries can have patterns (or regular expressions) on character strings
- Numbers can compared to values or ranges
- Language elements are normalized so escape conventions do not confound searches
- Searches ignore language-specific intervening whitespace, linebreaks and comments, providing more accurate answers
- Optional GREP-like string (regular expression) search
- Scrollable list of search hits with context
- Can handle many computer languages (Java, C#, C++, etc.)
- Translates arbitrary characters sets into a uniform representation for indexing and display

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Miscellaneous

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Clone Doctor

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:03:32 GMT

Clone detection and removal tool.
Clone Doctor is a tool that detects and removes duplicate code ("clones"). It identifies not only exact, but near-miss duplicates in software systems and can be used on a variety of languages.

Categories:

Code analysis - Standards verifiers

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Java Source Code Browser

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:23:22 GMT

Java Source Code Browser.
This tool reads a designated set of Java source files and produces a JavaDoc equivalent extended with fully browsable source code containing hyperlinked cross-references within and across that set of files. Every identifier in the source code (public or local) acts as a link to its corresponding source definition, all uses of that identifier anywhere in the source files, and the corresponding JavaDoc information. This provides a convenient method for programmers to view the entire source of large application systems.

Features include:
- JavaDoc tag compatible
- Java 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 compatible
- Produces JavaDoc equivalent web pages
- Extracts full cross-reference and type information from both source and class files
- Can handle large systems of source code
- Optional specification of files via graphical project file chooser

Categories:

Documentation - Code commenting

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JavaFormatter

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:12:30 GMT

Java source code formatter.
This tool reorganizes Java source text files to indent code blocks according to their nesting level.

Features include:
- Formatted code compiles and executes exactly like unformatted code
- Handles Java 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5
- Specification of indentation step distance
- Specification of arbitrary input tab column positions
- Several styles of block ("curlybrace") indentation, including Sun standard
- Option to list separate logical conditions (&&,||) on separate lines
- A version with obfuscation capability can scramble the code to make it difficult to reverse-engineer
- Can process batches of files, specified either manually or through a Java-based file-selector GUI
- Output encoding in ASCII, European ASCII, or UNICODE (UTF-8 or UTF-16)

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Infinispan

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:44:18 GMT

Data grid platform.
The purpose of Infinispan is to expose a data structure that is highly concurrent, designed ground-up to make the most of multi-processor/multi-core architectures while at the same time providing distributed cache capabilities. At its core Infinispan exposes a JSR-107 (JCACHE) compatible Cache interface (which in turn extends java.util.Map). It is also optionally is backed by a peer-to-peer network architecture to distribute state efficiently around a data grid.
Offering high availability via making replicas of state across a network as well as optionally persisting state to configurable cache stores, Infinispan offers enterprise features such as efficient eviction algorithms to control memory usage as well as JTA compatibility.

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Caching

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Coldtags suite

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:35:02 GMT

Suite that provides over 380 JSP custom tags for common programming tasks.

Coldtags suite includes standard user interface components like buttons, lists, edits, grids, menus, tables, tree views, calendars, ajax, and more. With this suite developers and web designers don't need to worry about writing browser-specific HTML or JavaScript.

All controls are tested to operate on major Internet browsers as well as JEE servers.

Categories:

JSF - JSP - Tag libraries - AJAX

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