a "lightweight open framework" for building Java applications - it's a jakarta EE application server, just not branded explicitly as such.
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an XML format for outlines, often used for import and export of RSS feeds.
OSGi is a module system for Java. It's used in Eclipse, Glassfish, and a host of other environments.
Borland's relational database for DOS/Windows; PAL (Paradox Application Language) let you build form-based apps without SQL. Largely forgotten once Access showed up because who knew people don't think in tuples. Fantasti
a zero-config bundler that is supposed to just work out of the box. Reportedly great developer experience, no setup required.
Parquet is an open-source, column-oriented data format designed for efficient storage and retrieval. It's meant more for bulk data than specific object serialization.
Apache PDFBox - a Java library for working with PDF documents; handles text extraction, form filling, PDF creation, and rendering; the right choice when Tika is overkill and you only need PDFs
Guidelines for Handling Bug Reports
Deprecation of Standard Modules
Structural Pattern Matching
Apache POI - the Java library for reading and writing Microsoft Office formats (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX and their legacy equivalents); what Tika delegates to internally for Office documents
Primate is an opinionated, largely language-neutral web framework. It supports multiple front ends, backends, and runtimes, with a tendency towards to the javascript ecosystem.
Protocol Buffers, Google's binary serialization format, is more compact and faster to parse than JSON or XML, at the cost of human readability. Widely used in gRPC and high-throughput systems.
the "Pleasantly Usable Design Language," a spec and distribution of a common UI language for the web.
a commercial Windows-based load testing tool with a visual scenario builder; targets teams needing a GUI-first workflow without Java.
a dynamically-typed, interpreted high-level language. Emphasizes readability and a *massive* ecosystem, commonly used as a glue language. Whitespace is significant in Python.
"supersonic/subatomic java," a platform for Java applications that aims for developer coherency. It's not quite a competitor to spring, but sort of is.
Rapid Application Development — methodology popularized by James Martin; Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, and Delphi all wore this badge. Mostly meant "fast until it wasn't" and disappointed a million deluded managers.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation: an architecture that improves LLM responses by retrieving relevant documents from an external corpus at query time, grounding the model's output in your data rather than its training weigh