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What's your top 3 open-source choice?
Posted by kirillcool on April 10, 2005 at 08:18 AM | Comments (16)
Open-source libraries abound. Thousands of projects thrive and (mostly) languish at Apache, SourceForge, CodeHaus and right here at java.net. Project directories like FreshMeat, Java-Source and CodeZoo try to make the chaos look less irregular.
But above all the rest, there are projects that have changed the field, some of them declining, and some strong as ever. Here are my top three:
- JUnit
- Tomcat
- Struts
So, what is your top three*?
* Try to choose objectively (I know that even your plumber has wrote a new web framework, but it doesn't mean that it's that good). Entries with more than three names will be subject to removal :(
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I don't get Struts. I've been doing web-programming for years and never found a place where they really fit in with what I was doing. What's the fascination with them? I'm curious what you use them for, how you use them, and how they've helped you?
Posted by: mason on April 10, 2005 at 08:38 AM
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My /current/ list of projects that I use and that really help me develop better applications:
hibernate
junit
wicket
Posted by: eelco12 on April 10, 2005 at 08:39 AM
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But as for the list that changed the java community, I agree with Struts, Tomcat and JUnit.
Posted by: eelco12 on April 10, 2005 at 08:41 AM
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I'd offer up the following...
1. Ant
2. Eclipse
3. JBoss/JoNAS (includes Tomcat)
**** and **** would be next on the list...
Posted by: brianrepko on April 10, 2005 at 09:32 AM
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XmlBeans
Tomcat
retroweaver
Retroweaver so I can code in Java 5 and produce Java 5 and Java 1.4 builds. F.E. the ScheduleWorld Java 5 build is 1.4MB while the 1.4 build is 5.5MB (and growing). Supporting folks with the 1.4JVM is critical at this time so retroweaver is a huge life saver.
XmlBeans is saving me from a painful number of toolkit and over-the-wire interoperability problems (and large amounts of unnecessary complexity) with SOAP. It lets me model my data using FULL XSD and provides XSD validation - even the regex patterns.
Posted by: markswanson on April 10, 2005 at 09:43 AM
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My list since quite a while is:
RIFE
PostgreSQL
Jetty
Posted by: gbevin on April 10, 2005 at 10:10 AM
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THE BEST OF THE BEST OF BEST
XStream
JGoodies Data Binding
Ashkelon
Honourable Mention
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Posted by: swapnonil on April 10, 2005 at 12:27 PM
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SpringHibernateOsCache
Posted by: baroncelli on April 11, 2005 at 01:05 AM
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1. Spring
2. Hibernate
3. Resin
Posted by: mbogaert on April 11, 2005 at 01:20 AM
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Spring
Hibernate
Eclipse
And no project is an island.
Posted by: d_bleyl on April 11, 2005 at 05:02 AM
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- Spring
- Lucene
- SiteMesh
Posted by: ahmetaa on April 11, 2005 at 05:35 AM
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Tomcat
Struts
Eclipse
Posted by: johnreynolds on April 11, 2005 at 09:26 AM
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1. Ant
2. Junit
3. Platonos PluginEngine
Ant is the tool for builds. JUnit is so simple yet effective. Platonos (my own project, excuse the plug) allows me to build applications the way they should be, in modular fashion piece by piece. :)
Posted by: buckman1 on April 12, 2005 at 12:43 AM
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Maven
NetBeans
JBoss
Posted by: jagoterr on April 12, 2005 at 01:29 AM
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Eclipse
Tomcat
FirebirdSQL
Posted by: jamesots on April 21, 2005 at 01:52 AM
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Hibernate
Junit
Spring
Posted by: zachlimrj on April 27, 2005 at 06:26 PM
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