Jodd | The Unbearable Lightness of Java

Jodd table of Micro-components

Here are some components for you! See documentation for more.

BeanUtil - fast bean library, type introspection and type conversion tools with some unique features.

JDateTime - astronomical precision in single time-manipulation class.

Props - properties replacement, featuring: UTF8, sections, profiles, macros and more.

DbOom - thin database layers, object mapper and Template-SQL that simplifies database code.

Madvoc - MVC framework based on CoC and annotations for pragmatic web development.

Petite - DI container that supports sufficient most of features offered by other containers.

Proxetta - the fastest proxy creator with new, unique approach for making pointcuts and different type of advices.

Lagarto - all-purpose HTML parser and DOM builder.

Jerry - jQuery-friendly HTML parser with CSS3 selectors support.

HTTP - Tiny and raw HTTP client, helps talking to servers.

Email - sending and receiving emails for busy developers.

Decora - decoration framework for web pages based on templates.

Json - parsing JSON to objects and serializing objects back to JSON.

HtmlStapler - auto packaging of web resources included by HTML page.

Think Lightweight, Be Awesome, Get Things Done!

The Importance of Being Small

Jodd is oriented around simpler libraries for doing what people have often times used heavyweight frameworks for: not in terms of performance though necessarily, but in terms of mental efforts and scaffolding required to get an MVP out the door. The very point of minimalism from a reliability perspective is to reduce points of failure in code with simply fewer parts.

Jodd tools and microframeworks tries to make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.

Simple Common Sense principle

Being Too Smart, programmers introduce various kinds of Magic into their software. This will usually lead to a software design that is more generic, dynamic and flexible than is needed, has more features than is needed, and is hence much more complex than is needed. Also, generally, complex solutions will be slower than simple counterparts, will be more prone to containing bugs, will be more difficult to debug, more difficult to maintain, more difficult to explain, and more difficult to learn. Which are, generally, bad things.

Jodd, instead, is designed to follow simple common sense.