# Apache Commons

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- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/apache-commons
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/apache-commons.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/apache-commons/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://apache.org
- **Slug:** apache-commons
- **Categories:** developer-tools

## Overview

- **Tagline:** 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.
Source: Brand's website (https://apache.org) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** 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.
Source: Brand's website (https://apache.org) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - 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).
Source: Brand's website (https://apache.org) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Open-source, freely available.
Source: Brand's website (https://apache.org) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Java developers, Apache projects, and organizations leveraging the Java platform for various software development needs.
Source: Brand's website (https://apache.org) · 2026-10-04

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