Welcome to the Jakarta Commons Wiki

Wiki MarkupWe're a \[http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta/FrontPage Jakarta\] community, dedicated to creating reusable library components in Java. Jakarta Commons is now using \[http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion\] as the version control system.

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Components

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• \[:BeanUtils\] - Utilities for manipulating java beans, including copying properties, cloning, invoking methods and type conversion.
• Wiki Markup\[:Betwixt\] - Services for mapping JavaBeans to XML documents, and vice versa.
• Wiki Markup\[:Chain\] - A "Chain of Responsibility" pattern implemention for organizing complex processing flows.
• Wiki Markup\[:CLI\] - Command Line Interface library for processing command-line options and arguments.
• Wiki Markup\[:Codec\] - General encoding/decoding algorithms. Includes some phonetic encoders, Hex, Base64, and a URL encoder.
• Wiki Markup\[:Collections\] - Builds upon the Java Collections Framework of List, Set and Map to provide many more implementations, new collections and abstract base classes.unmigrated-wiki-markup
• \[:Configuration\] - Tools to assist in the reading of configuration/preferences files in various formats
• Wiki Markup\[:Daemon\] - Run (java) applications as windows service or UNIX daemon.
• Wiki Markup\[:DBCP\] - Database connection pooling services.
• Wiki Markup\[:Digester\] - An XML-to-Java-object mapping utility commonly used for parsing XML configuration files.
• Wiki Markup\[:FileUpload\] - Makes it easy to add robust, high-performance, file upload capability to your servlets and web applications
• Wiki Markup\[http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-httpclient/FrontPage HttpClient\] - A framework for working with the client-side of the HTTP protocol.
• Wiki Markup\[:IO\] - Utility classes, stream implementations, file filters and endian classes to assist in input/output operations.
• Wiki Markup\[:JEXL\] - A velocity-esque expression interpreter Wiki Markup
• \[:Jelly\] - An XML-based scripting language
• Wiki Markup\[:JXPath\] - Facilities for applying xpath expressions to graphs of objects of all kinds: Java beans, Maps, Servlet contexts, DOM etc.unmigrated-wiki-markup
• \[:Lang\] - Common utilities that should be provided by the JDK, including String handling, Object and Date helpers, nested exceptions and enumerated types.unmigrated-wiki-markup
• \[:Launcher\] - A cross platform Java application launcher which eliminates the need for a batch or shell script to launch a Java class.unmigrated-wiki-markup
• \[:Logging\] A thin, modular bridging API with out-of-the-box support for the most well known logging systems.
• Wiki Markup\[:Math\] Lightweight, self-contained mathematics and statistics components.
• Wiki Markup\[:Modeler\] Mechanisms to create Model MBeans compatible with the Java Management Extensions (JMX) specification.
• Wiki Markup\[:Net\] - A collection of classes implementing various network protocols such as FTP, NNTP, SMTP, Telnet.
• Wiki Markup\[:Pool\] - A generic object pooling interface, a toolkit for creating modular object pools and several general purpose pool implementations.unmigrated-wiki-markup
• \[:SCXML\] - A Java implementation of State Chart XML (SCXML), currently a W3C Working Draft.unmigrated-wiki-markup
• \[:Transaction\] - Utility classes commonly used in transactional programming
• Wiki Markup\[:Validator\] - Components for user input validation
• Wiki Markup\[:VFS\] - Extensible framework to acces various filesystems through an unified api with implementations for e.g. sftp, smb, http, zip, ... \\

On the commons site:

• http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/components.html

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Sandbox

TheSandbox is an open workspace for jakarta committers. This is also divided into components.

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• Wiki Markup\[:Id\] - Generators for identifiers Wiki Markup
• \[:CommonsCsv\] - Proposed new component
• Wiki Markup\[:Metadata\] - Proposed new component which provides a class metadata API similar to that of JDK5
• Wiki Markup\[:Compress\] - Defines an API for working with tar, zip and bzip2 files \\

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Dormant

Sandbox components that are currently inactive. On this wiki:

• Wiki Markup\[:CommonsConvert\] - Various conversion ideas extracted from \[:BeanUtils\]unmigrated-wiki-markup
• \[:FeedParser\] - RSS and Atom parsing infrastructureunmigrated-wiki-markup
• \[:Resources\] - A lightweight framework for defining and looking up internationalized message strings. \\

'Special' Wiki pages

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• strings.