Expresso Makes Use Of Many Different 3rd Party Libraries. Below
is a list of libraries as well as links to their site home pages so you can
study them to get more detailed information about their use. Any libraries
marked "updated" means that we have a new version included with
this release of Expresso. Any libraries marked "new" mean that they
were not present in previous Expresso releases.
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The servlet container bundled with the expresso-complete
distribution, as well as the container used for the development environment. |
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The MVC framework upon with Expresso's Controller System
is based. |
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Considered the premiere unit testing framework for the Java
language. |
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One of the leading XML parsers |
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Used for XML transformations |
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An extension to the Struts framework for templating capabilities.
As of Struts 1.1, Tiles is included in the Struts distribution. |
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A build system that we use for our own development. The
ANT jars are not included by default with the Expresso Framework. Click
on the link to the left to go to the ANT home page. |
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A server side unit testing extension to JUnit that allows
for Servlet (and thus Controller) testing. |
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A robust and feature rich Regular Expression Mapping framework |
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A 100% Pure Java relational database system that is included
in the Expresso-Complete download bundle. |
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A fast and fully configurable logging system that we use
and recommend for all Expresso-based apps. |
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A logging system facade that makes an attempt to wrap various
logging systems such as log4j, JDK 1.4 logger, etc. For your own apps,
we still recommend the direct use of log4j. |
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A set of utility classes and methods for easing development
with JavaBeans |
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A library that makes it easy to build XML-based configuration
files |
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A library of various data structures that extend the data
structures commonly included in Expresso. |
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Doug Lea's infamous threading library. Provides many useful
primitives for working with multi-threaded applications. |
