Java Framework

Open-source Java projects categorized as Framework

Top 23 Java Framework Projects

  1. Spring Boot

    Spring Boot helps you to create Spring-powered, production-grade applications and services with absolute minimum fuss.

    Project mention: Weather MCP | dev.to | 2026-03-31

    During my career break that I started in 2025, I started exploring the ever-changing Generative AI landscape. In Decemember, I was exploring Spring Boot as I hadn't used it in anger professionally having used other Java frameworks like Jersey, Play and I wanted to build something.

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  3. Spring

    Spring Framework

    Project mention: Spring: la Feature que Tardó 6 Años en Llegar (Y Cómo Cambia Todo) | dev.to | 2025-11-14
  4. Dubbo

    The java implementation of Apache Dubbo. An RPC and microservice framework.

  5. libGDX

    Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework

    Project mention: MonoGame: A .NET framework for making cross-platform games | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-07
  6. webmagic

    A scalable web crawler framework for Java.

  7. VirtualApp

    Virtual Engine for Android(Support 14.0 in business version)

  8. Spring Security

    Spring Security

  9. transmittable-thread-local

    📌 a missing Java std lib(simple & 0-dependency) for framework/middleware, provide an enhanced InheritableThreadLocal that transmits values between threads even using thread pooling components.

  10. Mosby

    A Model-View-Presenter / Model-View-Intent library for modern Android apps

  11. Small

    A small framework to split app into small parts

  12. android-common

    Android common lib, include ImageCache, HttpCache, DropDownListView, DownloadManager, Utils and so on

  13. Conductor

    A small, yet full-featured framework that allows building View-based Android applications (by bluelinelabs)

  14. android-priority-jobqueue

    A Job Queue specifically written for Android to easily schedule jobs (tasks) that run in the background, improving UX and application stability.

  15. Spring Data JPA

    Simplifies the development of creating a JPA-based data access layer.

  16. UltimateAndroid

    UltimateAndroid is a rapid development framework for developing your apps

  17. nucleus

    Nucleus is an Android library, which utilizes the Model-View-Presenter pattern to properly connect background tasks with visual parts of an application.

  18. spring-data-redis

    Provides support to increase developer productivity in Java when using Redis, a key-value store. Uses familiar Spring concepts such as a template classes for core API usage and lightweight repository style data access.

  19. EdXposedManager

    Companion Android application for EdXposed

  20. Codename One

    Cross-platform framework for building truly native mobile apps with Java or Kotlin. Write Once Run Anywhere support for iOS, Android, Desktop & Web.

  21. spring-data-mongodb

    Provides support to increase developer productivity in Java when using MongoDB. Uses familiar Spring concepts such as a template classes for core API usage and lightweight repository style data access.

    Project mention: Build a Spring AI MCP Server With MongoDB | dev.to | 2025-11-11

    To start building our application, we will need to bring in a few dependencies. The easiest way to get started is using Spring Initializr. We are going to need the Model Context Protocol Server and the Spring Web dependencies. We'll be adding the Spring Data MongoDB dependency later on, but we'll keep it to just the first two for now to make getting started easier.

  22. legend

    A framework for hook java methods.

  23. Moxy

    Moxy is MVP library for Android

  24. LiteCommon

    LiteOrm is a fast, small, powerful ORM framework for Android. LiteOrm makes you do CRUD operarions on SQLite database with a sigle line of code efficiently.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Framework projects in Java? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 Spring Boot 80,330
2 Spring 59,809
3 Dubbo 41,685
4 libGDX 24,974
5 webmagic 11,698
6 VirtualApp 10,950
7 Spring Security 9,480
8 transmittable-thread-local 8,277
9 Mosby 5,463
10 Small 5,044
11 android-common 5,022
12 Conductor 3,904
13 android-priority-jobqueue 3,383
14 Spring Data JPA 3,252
15 UltimateAndroid 2,109
16 nucleus 1,960
17 spring-data-redis 1,857
18 EdXposedManager 1,830
19 Codename One 1,830
20 spring-data-mongodb 1,676
21 legend 1,607
22 Moxy 1,594
23 LiteCommon 1,486

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