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DataNucleus Access Platform

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:14:18 GMT

Java persistence product.
DataNucleus Access Platform is fully compliant with the JDO1, JDO2, JDO2.1, JDO2.2 and JPA1 Java standards. It also complies with the OGC Simple Feature Specification for persistence of geospatial Java types. It utilises an OSGi-based plugin mechanism meaning that it is extensible.

Features include:
- supports access to the vast majority of RDBMS available today
- supports db4o
- also choice of LDAP, Excel spreadsheets, OpenDocument format spreadsheets as well as XML documents, NeoDatis ODB and JSON (RESTful)
- Query languages: JDOQL, JPQL, SQL, db4o Native, NeoDatis Criteria, NeoDatis Native
- allows you to use JDO XML/Annotations/API or JPA XML/Annotations with either JDO or JPA APIs, with your choice of datastore, and also your choice of query language

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Persistence - Data-tier

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jPDFFields

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:59:47 GMT

Java library to work with interactive PDF forms in both AcroForm and XFA formats.
jPDFFields allows your application to get and set field values and can also import and export to FDF, XFDF and XDP formats.

Features include:
- Load PDF documents from files, network drives, URLs or input streams
- Work with PDF forms in both AcroForm or XFA formats
- Export/import fields data as FDF, XML (XFDF) or XDP files
- Flatten form fields (paint the fields content directly in the page and remove fields themselves from the PDF document)
- Reset fields to their default value
- Save updated PDF file as file, an OutputStream or a ServletOutputStream
- 100% Java

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Reporting

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jPDFWriter

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:57:12 GMT

Java library that allows you to generate PDF documents directly from your Java programs.

jPDFWriter can create PDF files in two ways:
- PDF files can be created directly using jPDFWriter's API.
- jPDFWriter also extends the standard Java PrinterJob so that you can create PDF files in the same way that you would print to a physical printer.

Features include:
- Emulates the java graphics and printing classes, thus minimizing code changes and training
- No need to install or configure additional drivers or software when deploying your application
- 100% Java
- Supports PDF compression
- Support for PDF encryption and permissions
- Support for embedding fonts
- Support for JBIG2 images with optional module
- Allows run-time decision to go to a printer or to a PDF file

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jPDFText

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:53:46 GMT

Java library to extract text from PDF documents.
With jPDFText you can process PDF documents to extract the textual content for archiving, storage, searching or indexing.

Features include:
- Load PDF documents from files, network drives, URLs or input streams
- Extract text
- Extract words as a vector of Strings
- 100% Java
- No need to install or configure additional drivers or software when deploying

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Reporting

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jPDFSecure

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:49:51 GMT

Java library that can change security settings on PDF Documents.
With jPDFSecure, your application can encrypt and decrypt PDF documents as well as set permissions on the documents.

Features include:
- Encrypt/decrypt PDF documents
- 128-bit RC4 encryption security level
- Set/remove permissions
- Set/remove passwords
- Password to open PDF documents
- Master password to change permissions

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jPDFProcess

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:42:24 GMT

Java library to manipulate PDF documents.

Features include:
- Create new PDF documents or work with existing PDF documents
- Draw onto existing or new pages
- Split and merge documents
- Remove / add / rotate / resize pages
- Encrypt and protect your documents
- Import, export and fill interactive form data
- Export pages as images
- Apply and verify digital signatures
- Extract Text Content
- Print PDF documents
- Add file attachments
- Add and edit bookmarks
- Edit document properties such as title, keywords, subject
- Create PDF layers and draw onto them
- 100% Java

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jPDFImages

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:38:48 GMT

Java library to export images from PDF files and to import images into PDF files.
jPDFImages can create images from pages in a PDF document and export them as JPEG, TIFF or PNG images. Additionally, it can return the image of any page in the document to the host Java application as a BufferedImage for further processing or to save in different formats.

Features include:
- Export PDF document pages as JPEG, TIFF or PNG images
- Import images into new or existing documents
- Support for PDF 1.7 (latest PDF format)
- Save to the file system or to Java output streams
- 100% Java
- No need to install or configure additional drivers or software when deploying your application

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Reporting

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jPDFNotes

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:35:20 GMT

Java bean that integrates into your application to display PDF documents and forms and allow your users to annotate the documents and fill the forms.
After editing documents, the library can save them to a local file or the host application can override the save function to save the file to any location locally or on a network.

Features include:
- Read and display PDF files on any platform that supports Java
- Print PDF files
- Navigation with thumbnail, bookmark and annotation views
- Fill and save PDF forms (acroforms)
- Annotation toolbar to let your users insert notes and comments into PDF documents
- Validate and apply signatures
- Text search, selection and highlight
- Support for PDF 1.7 file format (latest PDF format) including layers
- Support for all image types, including JBIG2 and JPEG 2000
- Available in English, French, German and Spanish
- No need to install or configure additional drivers or software when deploying

Categories:

Rich client UI - Swing

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Play!

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:22:26 GMT

Framework for building Web applications with Java that targets RESTfull architectures.

Features include:
- No need to compile, deploy or restart the server. Edit your Java files, save, refresh your browser and see the results.
- Stateless model: Play! is a "Share nothing" system. Ready for REST and scalable by running the same application on several servers.
- Template system: Based on Groovy as expression language, it provides template inheritance, includes and tags.
- Integration with Hibernate, OpenID, Memcached, ... and a plugin system.
- When an error occurs, Play! shows you the source code and the source code line. Even in templates.
- Pure Java code: Use any Java library and develop with your preferred IDE. It integrates with Eclipse or NetBeans.

Categories:

Web frameworks

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JUnit Max

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:53:24 GMT

Eclipse plug-in that helps programmers stay focused on coding by running tests and reporting results unobtrusively.
Every time you save a Java file, Max will run your tests and report errors like compile errors. In addition, Max runs the tests most likely to fail first, so you only have to pay close attention to test results for a second before getting back to coding, even if you have a long-running test suite.

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Testing

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XDepend

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:03:41 GMT

Code base analyzer.

Features include:
- Analyze code structure
- Assess components given different metrics (Number of Lines of Code, Cyclomatic Complexity)
- Apprehend dependencies and navigate through artifacts
- Specify design rules
- Plan massive refactoring
- Code reviews
- Compare versions of code
- Query your code with a SQL-Like Code Query Language (CQL) with autocompletion support
- Anti-patterns detection
- Graphical dynamic displays
- Quality control rules extracted from best practices and customizable

Java version of the NDepend product.

Categories:

Code analysis - Standards verifiers

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findinsite-js

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:56:23 GMT

Java servlet search engine for web sites.

Features include:
- Java servlet for Tomcat, WebSphere, and other app-servers
- Customisable to integrate with your site
- Doesn't show ads from your competitors
- Online configuration screen
- Schedule regular indexing runs to update the search databases
- Searches HTML, PDF, DOC, XLS, PPT, TXT, JPEG and TIFF files
- Search words highlighted in web pages
- International support; User interface in 15 languages

Categories:

JSF - JSP - Tag libraries - AJAX

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WEB4J

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:45:33 GMT

Web application framework.

Features include:
- let's you build a browser front-end to a relational database
- lets you put SQL in plain .sql text files
- lets you implement forms with plain old HTML
- allows package-by-feature, where closely related items are placed in the same directory
- has no reliance on javascript
- has no custom annotations
- has no custom .xml files (only web.xml is used)
- has no object-relational mapping
- can be used with any relational database that has a JDBC driver
- lets your Model Objects be immutable
- lets your Model Objects be responsible for their own validation
- lets your Model Objects avoid the Java Beans anti-pattern
- uses convention over configuration
- lets your apps assist in their own translation
- lets you place translations in the database

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Web frameworks

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Usemon

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:56:46 GMT

Monitoring system for usage trends, response time and dependency analysis of plain Java applications or big multi-clustered Java Enterprise applications running in production.

The Usemon system consists of three separate components:
- Usemon Agent: performs byte code manipulation of interesting classes, injecting statistics gathering code in all public methods of classes like EJBs, MDBs, SQL statements, Queue senders or configured POJOs for that matter.
- Usemon Collector: receives the data from the Usemon Agents, transforms the observations and stores them into the SQL database.
- Usemon GWT: UI web app.
- Usemon Live: standalone Java app that displays the dependency graph as soon as it arrives from the Collectors and animates traffic in your system.

Categories:

Tracing - Logging - Monitoring

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Java Gems

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:50:23 GMT

General purpose utilities for Java.

Features include:
- Filtering: General purpose filtering interface, with null implementation and and, or and not operations for putting filters together.
- Command Line arguments parsing: CLI library implementation separating options as designed from options as typed.
- Logging library.

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