Re: The Open Source Frameworks I Use

The Codist asks what open source frameworks we use. Now, he says frameworks, but it looks more like libraries and utilities. Which is fine by me as I generally tend to avoid the larger frameworks, and just as The Codist himself wrote my own web framework for my regular site.

So, without further ado, here’s some regulars:

• Jetty – good stuff
• c3p0 – JDBC pooling
• log4j – logging, I don’t really like it, but…
• jgroups – data distribution/messaging
• JBoss Serialization – for high throughput servers
• JBoss Cache – data replication
• Mina – network IO framework
• XFire – for all your SOAP needs
• HSQLDB – just works, but I’ll probably check out H2 soon
• Jaxen – very good xpath engine
• Hibernate – ORM, because it is more or less standard
• GNU Trove – primitive fast collections
• Wicket – if I really must code an web UI

But I must admit, for my home coding I use a lot of my private libraires, I’ve got my own XML API and XPath engine. My own commons collection, UUID API, simple object -> XML lib, logging, email API, etc.