The Logging package is a thin bridge between different logging implementations. A library that uses the commons-logging API can be used with any logging implementation at runtime.

The Jakarta-ORO Java classes are a set of text-processing Java classes that provide Perl5 compatible regular expressions, AWK-like regular expressions, glob expressions, and utility classes for performing substitutions, splits, filtering filenames, etc. This library is the successor of the OROMatcher, AwkTools, PerlTools, and TextTools libraries originally from ORO, Inc.

This package contains a clean definition of JPA API intended for use with DataNucleus JPA since the JCP haven't provided an official JPA API jar. See http://java.net/projects/jpa-spec/downloads for the specification used to generate this API.

This package contains general purpose annotations for the Jackson Data Processor, used on value and handler types. The only annotations not included are ones that require dependency to the Databind package.

The Plexus project provides a full software stack for creating and executing software projects. Based on the Plexus container, the applications can utilise component-oriented programming to build modular, reusable components that can easily be assembled and reused. This package provides the Maven plugin generating the component metadata.

JOpt Simple is a Java library for parsing command line options, such as those you might pass to an invocation of javac. In the interest of striving for simplicity, as closely as possible JOpt Simple attempts to honor the command line option syntaxes of POSIX getopt and GNU getopt_long. It also aims to make option parser configuration and retrieval of options and their arguments simple and expressive, without being overly clever.

Logback is intended as a successor to the popular log4j project. This module lays the groundwork for the other two modules.

Plexus-cipher contains a component to deal with encryption and decryption.

OSGi, for Open Services Gateway initiative framework, is a module system and service platform for the Java programming language.

jsch-agent-proxy is a proxy program to OpenSSH's ssh-agent and Pageant included in Putty. This component contains the code for a proxy to ssh-agent.

The Apache Commons CLI library provides an API for parsing command line options passed to programs. It is also able to print help messages detailing the options available for a command line tool.

Commons CLI supports different types of options:

• POSIX like options (ie. tar -zxvf foo.tar.gz)

• GNU like long options (ie. du --human-readable --max-depth=1)

• Java like properties (ie. java -Djava.awt.headless=true Foo)

• Short options with value attached (ie. gcc -O2 foo.c)

• long options with single hyphen (ie. ant -projecthelp)

This is a part of the Apache Commons Project.

This package builds the Simple Validation core and Swing adapter libraries from source.

Stax2 API is an extension to basic Stax 1.0 API that adds significant new functionalities, such as full-featured bi-direction validation interface and high-performance Typed Access API.

This package contains the Python runtime library used with Python generated sources by ANTLR.

JGit is a lightweight, pure Java library implementing the Git version control system, providing repository access routines, support for network protocols, and core version control algorithms.

EasyMock is a Java library that provides an easy way to use mock objects in unit testing.

JLine is a Java library for handling console input. It is similar in functionality to BSD editline and GNU readline but with additional features that bring it in par with ZSH line editor. People familiar with the readline/editline capabilities for modern shells (such as bash and tcsh) will find most of the command editing features of JLine to be familiar.

This package includes the Terminal API and implementations.

JMock is a library that supports test-driven development of Java code with mock objects. Mock objects help you design and test the interactions between the objects in your programs.

The jMock library

• makes it quick and easy to define mock objects

• lets you precisely specify the interactions between your objects, reducing the brittleness of your tests

• plugs into your favourite test framework

• is easy to extend.

The Commons Lang components contains a set of Java classes that provide helper methods for standard Java classes, especially those found in the java.lang package. The following classes are included:

• StringUtils - Helper for java.lang.String.

• CharSetUtils - Methods for dealing with CharSets, which are sets of characters such as [a-z] and [abcdez].

• RandomStringUtils - Helper for creating randomised strings.

• NumberUtils - Helper for java.lang.Number and its subclasses.

• NumberRange - A range of numbers with an upper and lower bound.

• ObjectUtils - Helper for java.lang.Object.

• SerializationUtils - Helper for serializing objects.

• SystemUtils - Utility class defining the Java system properties.

• NestedException package - A sub-package for the creation of nested exceptions.

• Enum package - A sub-package for the creation of enumerated types.

• Builder package - A sub-package for the creation of equals, hashCode, compareTo and toString methods.

Java-cdi-api contains the required APIs for Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI).

The Java Collections Framework is the recognised standard for collection handling in Java. Commons-Collections seek to build upon the JDK classes by providing new interfaces, implementations and utilities. There are many features, including:

• Bag interface for collections that have a number of copies of each object

• BidiMap interface for maps that can be looked up from value to key as well and key to value

• MapIterator interface to provide simple and quick iteration over maps

• Transforming decorators that alter each object as it is added to the collection

• Composite collections that make multiple collections look like one

• Ordered maps and sets that retain the order elements are added in, including an LRU based map

• Reference map that allows keys and/or values to be garbage collected under close control

• Many comparator implementations

• Many iterator implementations

• Adapter classes from array and enumerations to collections

• Utilities to test or create typical set-theory properties of collections such as union, intersection, and closure.

BeanUtils provides a simplified interface to reflection and introspection to set or get dynamically determined properties through their setter and getter method.

Ant is a platform-independent build tool for Java. It is similar to make but is implemented using the Java language, requires the Java platform, and is best suited to building Java projects. Ant uses XML to describe the build process and its dependencies, whereas Make uses Makefile format.

Commons Math is a library of lightweight, self-contained mathematics and statistics components addressing the most common problems not available in the Java programming language or Commons Lang.