Web Development Tools for Java Developers

Java developers are lucky enough to have a wide range of open source and premium tools to develop applications more efficiently and effectively. These tools, frameworks, and various libraries takes care of several core functionalities such as logging, security, database transactions, application builds, component instantiation, and much more.  This enables the Java developers to spend more time to develop the core business logics.  Having said this, there is an equal possibility for frustration when these tools exhibit odd behaviors or any cryptic exceptions from its third-party codes.  While it definitely annoys the Java developer when the online message boards don’t retrieve immediate insight, how can developers smartly debug the code logic that is not written by them?  There are several examples of such situations. Here, in this blog, let us examine some of the important tools that every Java developer would need for web application development

Apache Log4j

This is a java library for logging purposes. It is vital for Java developers to carry out detection of application failures. In addition to that, it also have an exclusive feature known as inheritance in loggers, which would help the developers to reduce the volume of logged output and the cost of logging.

Hibernate ORM

Being an object-oriented language, Java represents its data in various forms. It is equipped to represent data in the form of graphs that can exhibit a network of Java objects which could be linked and connected with each another. It can represent data in tabular format while using a relational database (RDBMS) instead of an object database (ODBMS). These cause various problems such as defining identity, granularity, data navigations and much more. Here comes Hibernate ORM comes to the rescue. Hibernate ORM is an exclusive library which enable mapping of Java classes to database tables. This tool is especially helpful to support Java Persistence API (JPA) specification, including Java EE application, Java SE applications, and more.

LWJGL 3

LWJGL 3 is an acronym of Light-Weight Java Game Library and it is a cross-platform Java library. This library is utilized in conjunction with several game development frameworks of Java and it provides smart access to several graphic and multimedia development APIs such as graphic, (OpenGL), audio (OpenAL) and parallel computing (OpenCL) applications.

Eclipse

It is a popular IDE for Java application development. Eclipse is an open-source resource which had become one of the most preferred IDE (Integrated Development Environment) by Java professionals. Various offer modern features in-built within Eclipse platform enables easier modeling, testing and development processes.