Apache Commons

Tagline Brand's website · 2026-10-04

Provides a well-maintained and collaborative repository of high-quality, reusable Java components with minimal dependencies and stable interfaces, fostering community participation and simplifying common development tasks.

Description Brand's website · 2026-10-04

Apache Commons is an Apache project that provides a repository of reusable Java components, utilities, and libraries designed to augment core Java functionalities and simplify common programming tasks for developers.

Core capabilities Brand's website · 2026-10-04

• A comprehensive collection of reusable Java components and libraries
• including utilities for bytecode engineering (BCEL)
• reflection (BeanUtils)
• command-line parsing (CLI)
• encoding/decoding (Codec)
• extending collections (Collections)
• file compression (Compress)
• configuration management (Configuration)
• cryptography (Crypto)
• CSV processing (CSV)
• database connection pooling (DBCP)
• JDBC helpers (DbUtils)
• XML-to-Java object mapping (Digester)
• email sending (Email)
• external process execution (Exec)
• file uploads (FileUpload)
• geometry
• image processing (Imaging)
• I/O operations (IO)
• Java compilation (JCI)
• caching (JCS)
• expression language (Jexl)
• XPath for Java Beans (JXPath)
• extended java.lang functionality (Lang)
• logging (Logging)
• mathematics (Math)
• network utilities (Net)
• number types (Numbers)
• object pooling (Pool)
• RDF
• random number generation (RNG)
• State Chart XML (SCXML)
• statistics (Statistics)
• and string manipulation (Text).

Pricing Brand's website · 2026-10-04

Open-source, freely available.

Target industry Brand's website · 2026-10-04

Java developers, Apache projects, and organizations leveraging the Java platform for various software development needs.