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Allatori

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:33:35 GMT

Java obfuscator and optimizer.

Features include:
- Protection methods: name obfuscation, flow obfuscation, debug info obfuscation, string encryption, watermarking.
- Stack trace utility: makes obfuscated debug information comprehensible and adequate.
- A program module: uses information about decompiler work faults for creating special insertions into an obfuscated code that lead to decompilation failure.
- J2ME support as a plug-in for the Sun Java Wireless Toolkit for CLDC
- Command line interface.
- Integration with Ant.

Categories:

Code protection - Obfuscation

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Terracotta

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:32:09 GMT

Java infrastructure software that allows you to scale your application to as many computers as needed, without expensive custom code or databases.
Terracotta is an open source clustering solution that provides transparent clustering and coordination services.

Features include:
- Heap-Level replication: selectively share object graphs across the cluster.
- Cross-JVM coordination.
- Large virtual heaps: manage heaps that are much bigger than what can be contained in a single JVM.
- Fine-grained changes: Terracotta does not use serialization, and therefore can push field-level changes to the cluster. This translates into better network efficiency for replication.
- Runtime management and control: view in real-time objects in the heap.
- No serialization: because Terracotta clusters at the JVM level, no serialization code is required.
- Cluster-wide locking semantics: distributed wait/notify and synchronized.

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Miscellaneous

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Lucene

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:26:30 GMT

Open source text search engine library written entirely in Java.
The Lucene API offers both indexing and searching features.

Features include:
- Indexes text and HTML, document classes available for XML, PDF and RTF
- Search supports phrase and boolean queries, plus, minus and quote marks, and parentheses
- Allows single and multiple character wildcards anywhere in the search words, fuzzy search, proximity
- Will search for punctuation such as + or ?
- Field searches for title, author, etc., and date-range searching
- Supports most European languages
- Option to store and display full text of indexed documents
- Search results in relevance order (ranking)
- APIs for file format conversion, languages and user interfaces
- Incremental indexing and batch indexing
- Multiple-index searching with merged results

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Miscellaneous

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Hibernate

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:21:18 GMT

Object/relational mapping solution.
Hibernate not only takes care of the mapping from Java classes to database tables (and from Java data types to SQL data types), but also provides data query and retrieval facilities and can reduce development time otherwise spent with manual data handling in SQL and JDBC.
Main features:
- Support for natural OO idiom: inheritance, polymorphism, composition and the Java collections framework
- Support for ultra-fine-grained object models: a variety of mappings for collections and dependent objects
- No build-time bytecode enhancement: there's no extra code generation or bytecode processing steps in your build procedure
- Scalability: dual-layer cache architecture, and may be used in a cluster
- The query language: addresses not only how to get objects into the database, but also how to get them out again
- Support for "application" transactions: supports both long-lived persistence contexts, and detach/reattach, and takes care of optimistic locking automatically
- Free / open source

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Object-relational mapping

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memcached

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:05:14 GMT

Distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.
Several client APIs are available, including one for .NET and one for Java.

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OpenXava

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:32:23 GMT

Framework for developing Java EE applications.
OpenXava allows you to define applications with POJOs, JPA and Java 5 annotations. It generates JSR-168 portlet applications.

Features include:
- Based on the concept of business component
- Although the User Interface is automatically generated (on fly) a front-end arrangement is possible
- Adapted to work with legacy database schemas
- Supports any application server (Tomcat, JBoss, WebSphere, etc)
- Supports JSR-168: All OpenXava modules are standard portlets too
- Persistence engine: EJB3 JPA, Hibernate or EJB2 CMP
- Tested with portals such as JetSpeed 2, WebSphere Portal, Liferay and Stringbeans
- Integration of reports made with JasperReports
- Licensed under LGPL. You can develop comercial application using OpenXava.
- All labels and messages are in English, Spanish, German, Polish, Indonesian, French and Catalan

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Web frameworks

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Google Web Toolkit

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:41:47 GMT

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language.

With GWT, you write your front end in the Java programming language, and the GWT compiler converts your Java classes to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.

Features include:
- Dynamic, reusable UI components.
- Simple RPC: To communicate from your web application to your web server, you just need to define serializable Java classes for your request and response.
- Browser history management: Handles the browser's back button history.
- Real debugging: In production, your code is compiled to JavaScript, but at development time it runs in the Java virtual machine. That means when your code performs an action like handling a mouse event, you get full-featured Java debugging, with exceptions and the advanced debugging features of IDEs like Eclipse.
- Browser compatible: Supports IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, and Opera with no browser detection or special-casing within your code in most cases.
- Interoperability and fine-grained control: If GWT's class library doesn't meet your needs, you can mix handwritten JavaScript in your Java source code using our JavaScript Native Interface (JSNI).

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Ehcache

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:26:34 GMT

Ehcache is a pure Java, in-process cache.

Features include:
- memory and disk stores
- scalable to hundreds of caches
- multiple CacheManagers per virtual machine
- supports Object or Serializable caching
- support cache-wide or element-based expiry policies
- provides LRU, LFU and FIFO cache eviction policies
- blocking cache to avoid duplicate processing for concurrent operations
- self-populating cache for pull through caching of expensive operations
- replicate by copy and invalidate
- listeners
- gzip caching servlet

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Caching

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JBoss Seam

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:58:46 GMT

Application framework for Java EE 5 that unifies the component models of JSF and EJB 3.0, providing a streamlined programming model for web-based enterprise applications.
Seam introduces the notion of declarative application state management for POJO components. Seam components are stateful and contextual, with a well-defined container-managed lifecycle. This approach helps solve a whole class of bugs and performance problems that plague web applications with non-linear or multi-window navigation. Seam also makes business process management a first class construct, by integrating JBoss jBPM into this state management architecture.
Seam helps testing Java EE 5 applications in unit test frameworks by leveraging the JBoss Embeddable EJB3 container.
Seam is compatible with any application server that supports the EJB 3.0 public draft, and with any JSF 1.2 implementation.

Even if you're not ready to plunge into Java EE 5 and EJB 3.0 today, you can still take advantage of Seam's approach to state management by using Seam with Hibernate 3 and the JBoss Microcontainer.

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Scala

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:58:06 GMT

Programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise and type-safe way.
Scala integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages including mixins, algebraic datatypes with pattern matching, genericity, and more. It is integrated with Java and .NET: the Scala compiler produces standard Java class files or .NET assemblies, and Java/.NET libraries and frameworks can be used without glue code or additional declarations.
A Scala Plugin extends the Eclipse platform with a new Scala perspective providing wizards to generate Scala code, syntax highlighting and integration of the Scala tools (currently compiler only).

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Languages

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AgileJ StructureViews

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:31:59 GMT

Plugin for Eclipse that creates reverse-engineered UML class diagrams.

Features include:
- The diagrams are filterable through custom rules
- If you rename or move a class to another package, all diagrams follow suit
- You can set rules as to what a diagram should show. eg. all members of package X or all subclasses of type Y
- There's no separate UML model, all diagram info is sourced from the Eclipse JDT as you view it
- Shows all Java related static model information. eg. synchronized, final, deprecated, exceptions, and inner classes on the diagrams
- Shows Eclipse markers on the diagrams: errors, warnings, // TODO
- Exports JPEG, SVG, GIF or PNG

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Modeling - Architecture - MDA - UML

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JExcel

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:22:05 GMT

Library for integrating Microsoft Excel into Swing applications.

The JExcel functionality can be divided into the following parts:
- Automation of an Excel application, workbooks, worksheets, etc. This is the core functionality of the JExcel library, which allows working with Excel applications, workbooks, worksheets, ranges and cells.
- Embedding a workbook in a Java Swing application. JExcel provides the JWorkbook component that allows embedding an Excel workbook in a Java Swing application as an ordinary Swing component.
- Handling Excel workbook or worksheet events. Workbook and Worksheet JExcel classes allow adding listeners for events generated by a workbook or worksheet and event handlers to affect the application behavior.
- Working with native peers. Native peers are provided to allow you to add custom functionality based on JExcel.

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Reporting

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Lattix LDM for Java

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:49:56 GMT

Enables you to analyze the architecture of your Java application in terms of the elements and their relationships (jars, packages, classes, methods, etc.).

Lattix LDM allows you to analyze your architecture, edit the structure to create what-if and should-be architectures, and then create design rules to formalize and communicate that architecture to your development organization. Lattix LDM uses a dependency-matrix approach to obtain information about an application. It displays the matrix and lets users conceptually reorganize the layers and packaging structure. Continual monitoring of an application for structural deterioration is also enabled; thereby allowing remedial action to be taken before the problem escalates to a major maintenance problem.
Lattix LDM offers a GUI as well as a command line options to facilitate integration with build tools or IDEs. Plugins for NetBeans and Eclipse are available. It also includes support for Hibernate and Spring Framework.

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Code analysis - Standards verifiers

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Velocity

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:38:23 GMT

Template engine permitting to use a template language to reference objects defined in Java code.
When Velocity is used for web development, Web designers can work in parallel with Java programmers to develop web sites according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) model, meaning that web page designers can focus solely on creating a site that looks good, and programmers can focus solely on writing top-notch code. Velocity separates Java code from the web pages, making the web site more maintainable over the long run and providing an alternative to Java Server Pages (JSPs) or PHP.
Velocity's capabilities reach beyond the realm of the web; for example, it can be used to generate SQL and PostScript and XML from templates. It can be used either as a standalone utility for generating source code and reports, or as an integrated component of other systems. For instance, Velocity provides template services for the Turbine web application framework, together providing a view engine facilitating development of web applications according to a true MVC model.

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Page templating

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Geronimo

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:45:47 GMT

Open-source certified J2EE server that:
- is licensed under the Apache License
- passes Sun's TCK for J2EE 1.4
- reuses ASF/BSD licensed code available today, with new ASF code to complete the J2EE stack.

Features include:
- complete J2EE 1.4 certification
- support for Java Business Integration (JBI)
- Tomcat or Jetty Web container deployment options
- a Web-enabled management console based on Java Portlets
- integration with the Eclipse Web Tools Project
- integration of Apache Derby and the Apache Directory Server

Categories:

Application servers

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