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 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 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...
Apache Commons Logging is useful when a developers writes a logger for his application but at some later point he switches the logging handler but his original code can't get re-written (because of various reasons).The Commons Logging project, if used,...
Apache Commons Proxy can be used for various purposes and tasks, but the basic idea behind the library is to allow developers to put up an intermediary point of access between the user and their code.They can then use this proxy to carry out a series of...
Apache Curator will help developers working on projects running ZooKeeper get a basic package of widely used plugins and components in one single archive. These components can be used to enhance default ZooKeeper capabilities and target a broader spectrum...
