Open Source Java Build Tools

ProGuard has moved to Github now: https://github.com/Guardsquare/proguard ProGuard is a free Java class file shrinker, optimizer, obfuscator, and preverifier. It detects and removes unused classes, fields, methods, and attributes. It optimizes bytecode and removes unused instructions. It renames the remaining classes, fields, and methods using short meaningless names. ProGuard is useful for making code more compact and more efficient, on the desktop, on tablets, on smartphones, and on embedded devices. It also makes code more difficult to reverse engineer.

Command-line/Ant-task/embeddable text file preprocessor. Macros, flow control, expressions. Recursive directory processing. Extensible in Java to display data from any data sources (as database). Can generate complete homepages (tree of HTML-s, images, etc.)

SMC takes a state machine stored in a .sm file and generates a State pattern in 14 programming languages. Includes: default transitions, transition args, transition guards, push/pop transitions and Entry/Exit actions. See User Manual for more info.

Jalopy is a source code formatter/beautifier/pretty printer for the Java programming language. It is aimed to provide a full-featured, yet free alternative to the well-known Jindent. Plug-ins for Ant, Eclipse, IDEA, JBuilder, JDeveloper, jEdit, NetBeans.

Community Z Tools Project (CZT): Tools for editing, typechecking and animating Z specifications and related notations. Includes a Java framework for building formal methods tools. NOTE: development of CZT has now moved to GitHub: https://github.com/community-z-users/czt

APKRepatcher helps you to modify an existing apk using a simple user friendly GUI. It lets you edit java/smali code from an APK and rewrite the changes back to the modified signed APK. Additionally, it provides you option to convert Dex, Jar, Class, Smali, Class from one format to another. APKRepatcher makes use of dex2jar, jadx, rsyantaxtextarea, zip4j, apktool

The purpose of this project is to provide an Ant-based cpp-like preprocessing capability using the Velocity Template Engine.

EasyStruts provide advanced support for developing Struts web applications with Eclipse . keywords: MVC, Struts, Eclipse, Java

JAXBBuilder is an eclipse plugin for generating Java classes directly from XML schema, XML or JSON files. The plugin detects document changes and re-generates Java code via Castor or XJC. It includes a JAXB project wizard, and configuration pages

JFlex is a flex-like lexer generator for Java with emphasis on speed and full Unicode support. It has some not so usual features like negation in regexps and nested input streams. Also reads JLex specifications unchanged.

OJ (f.a.k.a. OpenJava) is an object-oriented macro system with a compile time metaobject protocol for Java.

Strongly-Typed Javascript is a translator from Java its very similar Javascript counterpart. Unlike GWT, STJS doesn’t impose you any library on the client side and any special tool during development apart from a Maven plugin.

Druid is a GUI tool for database build and management. Users can add/change/delete DB objects (tables, fields, etc). Druid generates for you: SQL scripts, docs in XHTML, PDF, DocBook, etc; code in C, C++ & Java Beans even for JDO and support Castor & OJB

Japano is a java-servlet based webapplication toolkit and engine. It offers easy website logic and HTML form creation and offers integration of dynamic javascript updates ( AJAX). A sample webapp makes it easy to start developing with japano.

XTC4y is a collection of testing utilities for Java Code. It currently provides classes to instanciate an abstract class for testing the implemented methods, an invocation stack tracing the calls on an interface and a LogClassLoader. NOTE: DEVELOPMENT ST

JavaGuard is a general purpose bytecode obfuscator, designed to fit effortlessly into your regular build and testing process, providing peace of mind that your valuable Java code is more secure against decompilation and other forms of reverse engineering

JXCL is a framework for constructing transforming class loaders for Java. It can be used for a wide range of purposes, including automated testing, in particular testing of unit test coverage.

Java Gui Designer(JGuiD)is a graphical user interface designer for java with a special feature WYSIWYG(what you see is what you get). you will be able to see at design time, the exact same thing as you get when the generated source is executed.

Akrogen is code generation Eclipse Plugin (version 3.2.*) oriented components. With Akrogen you can describe your Eclipse Wizards pages with XML/XUL.

The BeanFactory Tool is a two-way GUI frontend plugin for editing javadoc custom doclets, such as XDoclet. It is build on a general Doclet editing layer running on Netbeans, JBuilder and Eclipse.

The FXL Project Eclipse Plugin leverages the integration of DSLs, (meta-) modeling approaches, code generation and the development of software configuration tools (sw-component-configuration).

The only -complete- XUL/embedded scripting solution for Java. JFCML supports not only AWT and Swing; but any class accessible to Java's ClassLoader. Also, most major scripting languages, including JavaScript, BeanShell, Jython, Jacl (Tcl), JRuby, more.

An Enterprise Focused Java Framework For Rapid Application Development. JAFFA is a Java web application development stack, build around Web 2.0 technologies (ExtJS, DWR, JAWR) with an extensive service architecture, meta-data layer and rules engine (based on JBoss AOP and Drools). It provides an event driven SOA infrastructure with advanced scheduling and queue sub-systems

Alchim is a set of tools to help create and build project (mainly java and scala project).

Flow4J-Eclipse is a plugin for the eclipse IDE that enables the modelling of process flows in a drag and drop manner. Building a Flow4J project creates the flow\'s java source code and is then compiled by the JDT plugin. Uses the eclipse-gef framework.