How to Build Java Applications Today: April 5, 2021

• Apache Tomcat

  24 7,297 9.8 Java

  Apache Tomcat

  

Originally built around the Apache HTTP server, the Apache Software Foundation now hosts 350+ projects. In Java land, we always cared more about Tomcat than HTTP Server. Even if we use Spring Boot - it’s the default servlet engine there.

• Apache PDFBox

  26 2,420 9.7 Java

  Mirror of Apache PDFBox

  

I use Apache software every day: Mostly Commons, but also POI, PDFBox, and Tika. They were pioneers for enterprise-friendly open-source libraries at a time when the GPL stroke fear into the hearts of development managers everywhere.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Apache

  82 3,433 9.3 C

  Mirror of Apache HTTP Server. Issues: http://issues.apache.org

  

Originally built around the Apache HTTP server, the Apache Software Foundation now hosts 350+ projects. In Java land, we always cared more about Tomcat than HTTP Server. Even if we use Spring Boot - it’s the default servlet engine there.

• Grails

  10 2,762 9.5 HTML

  The Grails Web Application Framework

  

Any JVM language to the rescue here? There’s one, but it’s not the one you’re thinking about. In a sign that this index may not accurately reflect our project reality, Groovy saw a meteoric rise of 0.86% to 1.04% last year! That was good for place 17. Yep, Groovy! Are people writing Gradle plugins in Groovy? Or is Grails having a resurgence? I’m as baffled as you are.

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