What is Joda ?

Joda is a Java open-source project that seeks to improve core Java functionality

Joda Dates

Joda Time seeks to reimplement date handling from scratch in Java. Both Date and Calendar in the core Java libraries have serious flaws, and this project seeks to address this. This is the most active project.

Joda Primitives

Joda Primitives provides a set of interfaces and implementations for collections designed for primitive types. These can be much more efficient than wrapping each primitive in an object.

Joda Beans

Joda Beans seeks to provide the next generation of handling for beans. It provides a standard interface for beans to implement that allows each property on a bean to become a first class object. This enables programs to work in a whole new way.

Other Next Generation Projects

A number of other open source projects are seeking to extend Java's core functionality:

• Apache Jakarta Commons Lang - Basic utilities for String, Number, Exception and Enum handling
• Apache Jakarta Commons Collections - Maps, collections, iterators and comparators
• Apache Jakarta Commons Codec - Standard encoding and decoding utilities
• Apache Jakarta Commons IO - Utilities that make it easier to work with IO
• JADE - Quantities, such as Distance, Size and Power plus other utilities

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