Apache Commons Codec was first developed to deal with Base64 encodings but it has expanded to a lot more standards and is currently an abstract framework for the creation of general-purpose encoders and decoders.The Commons Codec library itself is focused...
Apache Commons Collections is somewhat of a mini-framework, a set of Java classes that can be loaded into a project and provide a new set of ready-made tools to use when developing your own application.These classes are meant to be an extension to the...
The Apache Commons Configuration project was setup to unify the multitude of configuration file formats under one umbrella project, making it possible for developers to deal with each format and its data using the same interface.Commons Configuration is a...
Apache Commons CSV was developed to provide a better way of making sense of CSV (Comma Separated Values) when working with the Java programming language. Supported CSV formats: RFC 4180 MS Excel MySQL TDF Besides these, new custom formats can also be...
Apache Commons DBCP stands for Apache Commons DataBase Connection Pooling.This package implements the vaunted connection pooling technique, a system to allow the caching of database connections, so users won't need to reconnect to the database every time...
Apache Commons DbUtils is not an ORM built on JDBC, but merely a set of tools that upgrade JDBC with even more features, developed by the fine folks at the famous and hugely prodigious Apache Foundation.DbUtils simplifies the process of running a query or...
Apache Commons Exec smooths out the differences between various OS platforms and grants developers access to a Java API for executing external processes on the machine the application is running on.While this is also possible without using the...
Apache Commons JCS stands for Java Caching System, and is an older Apache Jakarta project and works on top of the Java Composite Cache.Because of this, the Commons JCS component can cache data to disk, in memory, laterally in the cluster, and to remote...
Apache Commons Jelly works by parsing a XML file and converting the content into a script.This script can produce various results, from other XML code, to HTML, JavaScript, or any other formats you want it to output.By doing so, developers have a much...
Apache Commons Lang does not have anything to to with "LANGuages" but actually with the Java built-in java.lang API.The extra tools and classes this library adds to java.lang will help developers extend Java's core with more functionality and features...
