Top 18 Java Tools

Java Tools

You’ll probably know many of the tools on this list of 18 choices, but others may be new to you. And odds are you haven’t tried them all yet

Gradle (http://www.gradle.org): Build tool. Automates the building, testing, publishing, deployment, and more of software as well as generating static websites or documentation.

Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org): Opensource integrated development environment (IDE). If you could have just one tool for Java development, Eclipse would be a good choice.

IntelliJ (http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/): IDE made by JetBrains, available in an

Apache 2licensed community edition and a commercial edition. Intel iJ provides similar features to Eclipse, with a smooth, developer friendly experience.

YourKit (http://www.yourkit.com): Java profiler. Combines powerful analysis

capabilities, ondemand profiling during both development and production, free embedding into production, and seamless IDE and application server integration.

Clover (https://www.atlassian.com/software/clover/overview): Code coverage tool from Atlassian. Runs in your IDE or continuous integration system, and includes test optimization to make tests run faster and fail sooner.

Mockito: (http://code.google.com/p/mockito/)Mock library. Opensource testing framework that enables the creation, verification, and stubbing of mocks

Jetty (http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/): Lightweight, embeddable app server.

Hibernate: (http://hibernate.org/) Objectrelational mapper. Implements the Java persistence API.

VisualVM (http://visualvm.java.net/): JVM monitor. An al inone Java troubleshooting tool that comes with the JDK.

JUnit: (http://junit.org/)Unit test framework. Core tool of testdriven development that enables repeatable, whitebox testing

Jenkins: (http://jenkinsci.org/) Continuous integration tool. Customizable with more than 600 plugins.

Spring Boot (http://projects.spring.io/springboot/): Spring (http://spring.io/) application development system. Works in your build system. Supports Gradle and Maven.

Guice: (https://code.google.com/p/guavalibraries/) Lightweight dependency

Injection/inversion of Control (IoC) framework, from Google

FindBugs: (http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/) Static code analyzer. Classifies potential errors in code as scariest, scary, troubling, or “of concern.” Available as a standalone GUI or as a plugin for Eclipse, NetBeans, Intel iJ, Gradle, Hudson, and Jenkins.

Jackson: (https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson) JSON (http://www.json.org/) parser. Aims to be fast, correct, lightweight, and ergonomic for developers

Snappy: (https://code.google.com/p/snappy/)Compression/decompression library from Google Code. A great resource when speed is a requirement.

JDGUI: (http://jd.benow.ca/) Decompiler. Standalone graphic utility that displays source codes of “.class” files. Free for noncommercial use (i.e., can’t be included or embedded in commercial products).