Logback is intended as a successor to the popular log4j project. This module can be assimilated to a significantly improved version of log4j. Moreover, logback-classic natively implements the slf4j API so that you can readily switch back and forth between logback and other logging frameworks such as log4j or java.util.logging (JUL).

Gson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into their JSON representation. It can also be used to convert a JSON string to an equivalent Java object. Gson can work with arbitrary Java objects including pre-existing objects that you do not have source-code of.

Ivy is a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and reporting) project dependencies. It is characterized by the following:

• flexibility and configurability - Ivy is essentially process agnostic and is not tied to any methodology or structure. Instead it provides the necessary flexibility and configurability to be adapted to a broad range of dependency management and build processes.

• tight integration with Apache Ant - while available as a standalone tool, Ivy works particularly well with Apache Ant providing a number of powerful Ant tasks ranging from dependency resolution to dependency reporting and publication.

Java Compiler Compiler (JavaCC) is the most popular parser generator for use with Java applications. A parser generator is a tool that reads a grammar specification and converts it to a Java program that can recognize matches to the grammar. In addition to the parser generator itself, JavaCC provides other standard capabilities related to parser generation such as tree building (via a tool called JJTree included with JavaCC), actions, debugging, etc.

The Apache Commons Compress library defines an API for working with compressed files such as ar, cpio, Unix dump, tar, zip, gzip, XZ, Pack200, bzip2, 7z, arj, lzma, snappy, DEFLATE, lz4 and Z files.

This is the GNU servlet API distribution, part of the ClasspathX project. It provides implementations of version 3.0 of the servlet API and version 2.1 of the Java ServerPages API.

FEST-Assert provides a fluent interface for assertions.

Commons-dbcp allows you to share a pool of database connections between users. Creating a new connection for each user can be time consuming and even unfeasible when the number of simultaneous users is very large. This package provides a way to share a poole of connections to reduce that load.

ASM is an all purpose Java bytecode manipulation and analysis framework. It can be used to modify existing classes or dynamically generate classes, directly in binary form. The provided common transformations and analysis algorithms allow easily assembling custom complex transformations and code analysis tools.

This package provides the Eclipse core compare support module org.eclipse.compare.core.

This package provides the Eclipse core expression language with the org.eclipse.core.expressions module.

Bnd is a swiss army knife for OSGi, it creates manifest headers based on analyzing the class code, it verifies the project settings, it manages project dependencies, gives diffs jars, and much more.

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.

This package contains a set of Java annotations which can be used in JVM-based languages. They serve as an additional documentation and can be interpreted by IDEs and static analysis tools to improve code analysis.

JSON Processing (JSON-P) is a Java API to process (e.g. parse, generate, transform and query) JSON messages. It produces and consumes JSON text in a streaming fashion (similar to StAX API for XML) and allows building a Java object model for JSON text using API classes (similar to DOM API for XML).

ASM is an all purpose Java bytecode manipulation and analysis framework. It can be used to modify existing classes or dynamically generate classes, directly in binary form. The provided common transformations and analysis algorithms allow easily assembling custom complex transformations and code analysis tools.

OPS4J stands for Open Participation Software for Java. This package contains utilities and extensions related to environment, i18n and mime types.

This package contains an HTTP/1.1 compliant HTTP agent implementation. It also provides reusable components for client-side authentication, HTTP state management, and HTTP connection management.

jsch-agent-proxy is a proxy program to OpenSSH's ssh-agent and Pageant included in Putty. This component contains an implementation of USocketFactory using netcat.

ASM is an all purpose Java bytecode manipulation and analysis framework. It can be used to modify existing classes or dynamically generate classes, directly in binary form. The provided common transformations and analysis algorithms allow easily assembling custom complex transformations and code analysis tools.

This package provides the Equinox application container for Eclipse.

The Bean Scripting Framework (BSF) is a set of Java classes which provides scripting language support within Java applications, and access to Java objects and methods from scripting languages. BSF allows one to write JSPs in languages other than Java while providing access to the Java class library. In addition, BSF permits any Java application to be implemented in part (or dynamically extended) by a language that is embedded within it. This is achieved by providing an API that permits calling scripting language engines from within Java, as well as an object registry that exposes Java objects to these scripting language engines.

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.

This package provides a Java runtime environment for and Java development kit. It supports enhanced class redefinition (DCEVM), includes a number of improvements in font rendering, keyboards support, windowing/focus subsystems, HiDPI, accessibility, and performance, provides better desktop integration and bugfixes not yet present in OpenJDK.