List of Java frameworks

Below is a list of notable Java programming language technologies (frameworks, libraries).

Name Details
Apache Nutch Nutch is a well matured, production ready Web crawler.
AppFuse open-source Java EE web application framework.
Drools Business rule management system (BRMS) with a forward and backward chaining inference based rules engine, using an enhanced implementation of the Rete algorithm.
jBPM Flexible Business Process Management (BPM) Suite
Activiti Workflow engine written in Java that can execute business processes described in BPMN 2.0.
Akka Toolkit and runtime simplifying the construction of concurrent and distributed applications on the JVM.
Apache Accumulo Distributed key/value store that provides robust, scalable data storage and retrieval.
Apache ActiveMQ Messaging and Integration Patterns server.
Apache Avro Remote procedure call and data serialization framework developed within Apache's Hadoop project.
Apache Axis Implementation of the SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) submission to W3C
Apache Camel Rule-based routing and mediation engine that provides a Java object-based implementation of the Enterprise Integration Patterns using an API to configure routing and mediation rules.
Apache Click Component oriented web application framework for the Java language and is built on top of the Java Servlet API
Apache Cocoon Web application framework built around the concepts of pipeline, separation of concerns and component-based web development.
Apache Commons Collection of open source reusable Java components from the Apache/Jakarta community
Apache CXF Services framework. CXF helps to build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS.
Apache Empire DB Relational database abstraction layer and data persistence component that allows developers to take a much more SQL-centric approach in application development than traditional Object-relational mapping frameworks.
Apache Felix Apache Felix is a community effort to implement the OSGi Framework and Service platform and other interesting OSGi-related technologies under the Apache license.
Apache Flume Distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data.
Apache Geronimo Open source server runtime that integrates the best open source projects to create Java/OSGi server runtimes that meet the needs of enterprise developers and system administrators
Apache Giraph Iterative graph processing system built for high scalability.
Apache Hadoop Framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models.
Apache HBase Non-relational, distributed database modeled after Google's BigTable
Apache Hive Component of Hortonworks Data Platform(HDP). Hive provides a SQL-like interface to data stored in HDP.
Apache JackRabbit Content repository for the Java platform.
Apache Jena Web framework for building Semantic web apps in Java. It provides an API to extract data from and write to RDF graphs
Apache Kafka Stream processing platform
Apache Log4j Java logging framework - Log4j 2 is the enhanced version of the popular Log4j project.
Apache Lucene High-performance, full-featured text search engine library.
Apache Mahout Project of the Apache Software Foundation to produce free implementations of distributed or otherwise scalable machine learning algorithms focused primarily in the areas of collaborative filtering, clustering and classification.
Apache Mesos Apache Mesos abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute resources away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be built and run effectively.
Apache Mina Java network application framework. MINA can be used to create scalable, high performance network applications.
Apache OODT Data management system framework
Apache Oozie Server-based workflow scheduling system to manage Hadoop jobs.
Apache OpenNLP Java machine learning toolkit for natural language processing (NLP).
Apache PDFBox Java tool for working with PDF documents.
Apache Pig High-level platform for creating programs that run on Apache Hadoop.
Apache Pivot Platform for building rich web applications in Java or any JVM-compatible language.
Apache POI APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format.
Apache Qpid Messaging system, implements the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol.
Apache River (Jini) Apache River is a project furthering the development and advancement of Jini technology. River is the implementation of Jini service oriented architecture.
Apache Samza Distributed stream processing framework.
Apache Shiro Java security framework that performs authentication, authorization, cryptography, and session management.
Apache Sling Web framework for the Java platform designed to create content-centric applications on top of a JSR-170-compliant (a.k.a. JCR) content repository such as Apache Jackrabbit.
Apache Solr Enterprise search platform
Apache Spark Fast and general engine for big data processing, with built-in modules for streaming, SQL, machine learning and graph processing.
Apache Storm Distributed realtime computation system.
Apache Struts Framework for building Servlet/JSP based web applications based on the MVC design paradigm
Apache Tapestry Component-oriented Java web application framework
Apache Tika Content detection and analysis framework.
Apache Tomcat Tomcat Server, is an open-source Java Servlet Container
Apache Uima Unstructured Information Management Architecture, is an OASIS standard for content analytics. It provides a component software architecture for the development, discovery, composition, and deployment of multi-modal analytics for the analysis of unstructured information and integration with search technologies.
Apache Velocity Java-based template engine that provides a template language to reference objects defined in Java code
Apache Wicket Component-oriented Java web application framework.
Apache Xerces Collection of software libraries for parsing, validating, serializing and manipulating XML.
Apache Zookeeper Centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services.
Barracuda MVC web application framework for developing Java EE web applications.
Birt Reporting and business intelligence tool for rich client and web applications
BioJava Java framework for processing biological data.
BlueCove Java library for Bluetooth (JSR-82 implementation)
Bouncy Castle Cryptographic Collection of APIs used in cryptography. It includes APIs for both the Java and the C# programming languages.
Burningwave Core Java library to build frameworks.
Cascading Abstraction layer for Apache Hadoop and Apache Flink. Cascading is used to create and execute complex data processing workflows on a Hadoop cluster using any JVM-based language.
CodeName One Set of software development tools aiming to provide ›Write Once, Run Anywhere‹ code for various desktop and mobile operating systems (like Windows, macOS, Android, Blackberry, iOS and others).
Deeplearning4j Open-Source Deep-Learning Software for Java and Scala on Hadoop and Spark.
Direct Web Remoting library that enables Java on the server and JavaScript in a browser to interact and call each other as simply as possible.
EclipseLink Java persistence solution addressing relational, XML, and database web services.
EHCache Ehcache is an open source, standards-based cache that boosts performance, offloads your database, and simplifies scalability.
Ejml (Efficient Java Matrix Library) Java linear algebra library for manipulating dense matrices.
Elasticsearch Multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents.
FreeMarker Template Java-based Template Engine, originally focusing on dynamic web page generation with MVC software architecture
GeoApi Set of Java language programming interfaces for geospatial applications.
GeoTools Java library that provides tools for geospatial data.
GlassFish Application server and official reference implementation for Servlets 3.0.
Google Gson Library to serialize and deserialize Java objects to (and from) JSON.
Google Guava Set of common libraries, it facilitates best coding practices and helps reduce coding errors. It provides utility methods for collections, caching, primitives support, concurrency, common annotations, string processing, I/O, and validations.
Google Guice Lightweight dependency injection framework for Java 6 and above
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) Set of tools that allows web developers to create and maintain complex JavaScript front-end applications in Java.
Hibernate Object-relational mapping tool for the Java programming language. It provides a framework for mapping an object-oriented domain model to a relational database.
HSQLDB RDBMS with JDBC interface, client-server version, query tool, grid, tree, performance test class, servlet, and self-test program.
iBatis Persistence framework which automates the mapping between SQL databases and objects in Java, .NET, and Ruby on Rails.
Infinispan Distributed in-memory key/value data store with optional schema
IText Dynamic PDF generation and manipulation for web- and other applications (Java, C#).
Jackson High-performance JSON processor for Java.
Java Astrodynamics Toolkit Libraries of components to assist software makers create their own applications to solve problems in Astrodynamics, mission design, spacecraft navigation, guidance and control
Java Collections Framework The Java Collections Framework (JCF) is a set of classes and interfaces that implement commonly reusable collection data structures.
Java Media Framework The Java Media Framework (JMF) is a Java library that enables audio, video and other time-based media to be added to Java applications and applets.
Java Topology suite Java Topology Suite (JTS) is an open-source Java software library that provides an object model for Euclidean planar linear geometry together with a set of fundamental geometric functions.
JaxP Java XML Application programming interfaces (API)s, provides the capability of validating and parsing XML documents.
JBoss Seam Web application framework developed by JBoss
JDom Java-based document object model for XML
Jersey Jersey RESTful Web Services framework, implementation of JAX-RS
Jetty Java HTTP (Web) server and Java Servlet container.
JFreeChart Java chart library
JHipster JHipster is a development platform to generate, develop and deploy Spring Boot + Angular Web applications and Spring microservices.
JMonkeyEngine Game engine made especially for modern 3D development, as it uses shader technology extensively.
JProfiler Java profiling tool for performance Tuning
JRockit Java profiling tool for performance Tuning
JSF Java specification for building component-based user interfaces for web applications.
JSoup Java HTML parser library. Supports extracting and manipulating data using DOM, CSS, and JQuery methods.
JUnit Unit testing framework
Keycloak Single sign-on and identity and access management framework.
LiquiBase Liquibase is an open source database-independent library for tracking, managing and applying database schema changes.
LWJGL Java library that enables cross-platform access to popular native APIs such as OpenGL, OpenAL, and OpenCL.
Micronaut A modern, JVM-based, full-stack framework for building modular, easily testable microservice and serverless applications
Mockito Unit testing framework for Java, framework allows the creation of test double objects (mock objects) in automated unit tests for the purpose of Test-driven Development (TDD) or Behavior Driven Development (BDD).
MyBatis First class persistence framework with support for custom SQL, stored procedures and advanced mappings.
Netty Netty is a non-blocking I/O (NIO) client-server framework for the development of Java network applications such as protocol servers and clients.
Neuroph Java neural network framework which supports common neural network architectures and learning rules.
OpenCV Library of programming functions mainly aimed at real-time computer vision.
Oracle WebLogic Java EE application server
OrientDB NoSQL database management system written in Java. It is a multi-model database, supporting graph, document, key/value, and object models but the relationships are managed as in graph databases with direct connections between records.
ORMLite Object Relational Mapping Lite (ORM Lite) provides some functionality for persisting Java objects to SQL databases while avoiding the complexity and overhead of more standard ORM packages.
Play Play Framework is used to build web applications with Java & Scala.
PrimeFaces User interface (UI) component library for JavaServer Faces (JSF) based applications.
Quarkus SUPERSONIC / SUBATOMIC / JAVA
Quartz Job scheduling library that can be integrated into a wide variety of Java applications.
Sax Event-driven online algorithm for parsing XML documents, with an API developed by the XML-DEV mailing list.
Selenium Library that provides automated control for web-browser, widely used in web applications testing
SLF4J Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J) serves as a simple facade or abstraction for various logging frameworks.
SonarQube Platform for continuous inspection of code quality.
Jasper Reports Java reporting tool that can write to a variety of targets, such as: screen, a printer, into PDF, HTML, Microsoft Excel, RTF, ODT, Comma-separated values or XML files.
Spock Testing and specification framework for Java and Groovy applications.
Spring Integration Framework for enterprise application integration.
Spring Roo Spring Roo is an open source software tool that uses convention-over-configuration principles to provide rapid application development of Java-based enterprise software
Spring Security Authentication and access-control framework
TestNG JUnit-inspired test framework with extra functionality.
Thymeleaf Java XML/XHTML/HTML5 template engine that can work both in web (Servlet-based) and non-web environments
Vaadin Web framework for rich Internet applications. In contrast to JavaScript libraries and browser-plugin based solutions
Vertx Polyglot event-driven application framework that runs on the Java Virtual Machine.
Wildfly Application server framework that implements the Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE) specification.
ZKoss Ajax Web application framework, written in Java