Open Source Java Frameworks

Hibernate is an Object/Relational Mapper tool. It's very popular among Java applications and implements the Java Persistence API. Hibernate ORM enables developers to more easily write applications whose data outlives the application process. As an Object/Relational Mapping (ORM) framework, Hibernate is concerned with data persistence as it applies to relational databases (via JDBC).

iDempiere. Community Powered Enterprise iDempiere Business Suite ERP/CRM/SCM done the community way. Focus is on the Community that includes Subject Matter Specialists, Implementors and End-Users. iDempiere is based on original Compiere/Adempiere plus a new architecture to use state-of-the-art technologies like OSGi, Buckminster, zk.

NanoH5 (or FullRelation) is a fullstack UI implementation framework providing a model driven design (MDA). Build a complete html5 application through a given class- or database-model without coding (coding APIs are available).

Allows editing of any size file in hexadecimal, decimal and ASCII. A great tool that allows you to edit and analyze the contents for either the data or resource fork of any type of file. 68K, PPC and Carbon run on MacOS 7-9 and X.

reacTIVision is a computer vision framework for the fast and robust tracking of markers attached on physical objects, and the creation of multi-touch surfaces. It was designed for the rapid development of table-based tangible user interfaces.

The Software Testing Automation Framework (STAF) is a framework designed to improve the level of reuse and automation in test cases and test environments. The goal of STAF is to provide a complete end-to-end automation solution for testers.

Arianne is a multiplayer online engine to develop turn based and real time games, providing a simple way of creating the game server rules and clients like our MORPG Stendhal. Our engine Marauroa uses Java and SQL for hosting hundreds of players on a solo host. Stendhal is a fun friendly and free multiplayer online adventure game with a huge and rich world. With hundreds of NPCs and different quests, features like the Travel log and achievement system keep track of progress. Thousands of creatures are ready to fight, above and below ground, and as players level up they can compare themselves on a detailed stats website. The engine Marauroa provides a simple way of creating games on a portable and robust server architecture. Marauroa manages the client server communication and provides an object orientated view of the world for game developers. It handles database access in a transparent way to store player accounts, character progress and the state of the world

ZK is an open-source Java framework for building modern web and mobile applications. It enables developers to create rich, interactive UIs using only Java — no JavaScript required. With 200+ Ajax-powered components, event-driven architecture, and support for popular technologies like Spring, Java EE, and JSP/JSF, ZK makes it simple to deliver powerful and user-friendly web applications.

Eclipse 4diac is an open source PLC environment allowing to implement industrial control solutions in a vendor neutral way. 4diac implements IEC 61499 extending IEC 61131-3 with improved support for controller to controller communication and dynamic reconfiguration. With that 4diac provides the infrastructure for Industrie 4.0 and industrial IoT. Further information and the latest versions can be found here: https://eclipse.dev/4diac/

IKVM.NET is a JVM for the Microsoft .NET Framework and Mono. It can both dynamically run Java classes and can be used to convert Java jars into .NET assemblies. It also includes a port of the OpenJDK class libraries to .NET.

Automatic frontend engine for Java. Write just the domain classes in plain Java. Get a web application ready for production.

Colorer provides source text syntax highlighting services. It colorizes source codes in editor systems (more than 200 syntaxes). Uses powerful HRC format(XML, RE, context free grammas), allowing to support any language. Available as Eclipse plugin.

SoundHelix is a free versatile Java framework for algorithmic random music composition. SoundHelix can generate random songs, play them (for example, on any number of MIDI devices or MIDI-capable software synthesizers) and is highly customizable using XML configuration. SoundHelix also allows writing the generated music as MIDI files. SoundHelix produces music that is actually enjoyable to listen to.

JPPF makes it easy to parallelize computationally intensive tasks and execute them on a Grid.

The purpose of this project is to provide a convenient Java implementation for Future Technology Devices International Inc.'s (http://ftdichip.com) FTD2xx library. This library is used to access and control FTDI's USB to serial converter chips via USB.

OpenSwing is a components library that provides a rich set of advanced graphics components for developing desktop applications and HTTP/RMI based java applications/RIAs based on Swing front-end. It provides also adapters for Hibernate, JPA, iBatis, etc.

Apache Wicket is a component based Java web application framework. It has found a new home at Apache: http://wicket.apache.org Please visit us there to discover new releases, find support and learn more about Apache Wicket.

A real-time graph plotter. While your application is computing and logging results to a CSV file using the LiveGraph Writer API, the plotter lets you visualise and monitor the results live - by instantly plotting charts and graphs of the data.

DESMO-J is a framework for rapidly building discrete event driven simulation models in Java, which is not restrained to any particular domain of application. It supports both event-oriented and process-oriented modelling views. See http://desmoj.de.

The Struts/SourceForge site hosts sample applications and related components based on the Apache Struts Web application framework. Disclaimer: This site is not affiliated with the Apache Software Foundation.

An open source workbench for chemo- and bioinformatics built on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP).

The AJAX JSP Tag Library is a set of JSP tags that simplify the use of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) technology in JavaServer Pages. Development moved to Mercurial

Cross-platform data acquisition and visualization software with an embedded HTTP-server, binary protocol parsing library, protocol emulation server, remote secure administration server, embedded Groovy scripting facilities and HMI (SCADA) visualization module.

JAPI is a collection of Java libraries that help with various tasks like argument parsing, i18n/l10n, creating gui applications, as well as tools that demonstrate this.

This project develops an open source editor for Clavia Nord Modular and Micro Modular synthesizers.