What's Your Favorite java.net Project?
java.net
seems to be a little bit underestimated. It is actually a great platform
for open source projects—and very easy to set up. You get SVN or CVS
access with mailing lists, project homepage, etc—the full
infrastructure. However, there are already some really interesting
java.net projects out there:
Published at DZone with permission of its author, adam bien.- http://beansbinding.dev.java.net: the JSR-295, databinding framework which will be probably used in JDK 1.7. You can already test it in netbeans.org
- http://nimbus.dev.java.net: the starting resource to the new l&f. It is already available in JDK 1.6u10
- http://substance.dev.java.net: an alternative look and feel for Swing. Great as well!
- http://hudson.dev.java.net: the ultimate and really easy to set up (actually nothing to do) continuous integration tool. You have really check it out
- http://opends.dev.java.net: a scalable and easy to use and install (even via webstart!) directory service—it works well with glassfish
- http://wonderland.dev.java.net: this one is awesome. It is easy to install and setup—second life like—virtual reality application. I use it to demostrate Java's visual capabilities
- http://openmq.dev.java.net: a scalable, clusterable JMS provider. Can be used standalone or in glassfish. Really active community. There was even a BOF at the JavaONE.
- http://openjdk.dev.java.net: this is the home of the next generation JDK. It is already used in some linux distros.
- http://glassfish.dev.java.net: the "killer" Java EE 5 server. Even embeddable!
- http://jsr-310.dev.java.net: this is the future of java.util.Date and java.util.GregorianCalendar (R.I.P to both :-))
- http://openjfx.dev.java.net: the Java FX resource with demos, source and doc.
- http://shoal.dev.java.net: easy to use and install clustering and broadcasting solution (uses JXTA or JGroups as SPI). Is used inside glassfish
- http://visualvm.dev.java.net: the "killer" monitoring, profiling console. Allows you local and remote monitoring of JVM processes
I surely forgot to mention some projects—but what's your favorite?
From http://blog.adam-bien.com/
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Comments
Alex Ruiz replied on Mon, 2008/06/02 - 2:14am
Substance, Hudson and Swing Explorer.
Cheers,
-Alex
Geertjan Wielenga replied on Mon, 2008/06/02 - 2:19am
Naiden Gochev replied on Mon, 2008/06/02 - 3:23am
Meera Subbarao replied on Mon, 2008/06/02 - 7:26am
JS Bournival replied on Mon, 2008/06/02 - 7:27am
Ronald Miura replied on Mon, 2008/06/02 - 8:39am
Cay Horstmann replied on Mon, 2008/06/02 - 8:54am
Here are two of my favorites that haven't been mentioned yet:
Emmanuel Hugonnet replied on Mon, 2008/06/02 - 9:08am
Hudson, Glassfish definitively
But I can't wait for Wonderland to be stable, that's the future.
Gustav Weber replied on Sun, 2008/06/08 - 10:12am
Mine are:
JGoodies with all their subprojects, and
FlexDock Swing Docking framework
jame jack replied on Mon, 2009/06/29 - 4:25pm