BuaBook Common Library for Java

This library contains a number of helper functions that we have found useful throughout our Java applications.

Functionality

This library contains the following packages:

com.buabook.common
- Formatters: Currency and date converters
- Objects: String to object conversion and object fields to map conversions
- Patterns: E-mail pattern matcher
- Printers: List and array conversions to string (for logging)
- Resources: Resource loading from class path
- StringSplitter: Improved String splitting
- Systems: Provides application root folder and environment / system property access
- Uuids: Null UUID access and null check
com.buabook.common.concurrent
- NamedThreadFactory: A thread factory that names each thread with a custom prefix and counter (useful for thread pools)
com.buabook.common.connection
- Process: Simple container to store connection details to a target process (hostname and port)
com.buabook.common.net
- DataSocket: Socket wrapper provides input and output streams as DataInputStream and DataOutputStream
- SocketAcceptorThread: Bind to port and notify of new inbound connections to the port (via INewClientSocketListener interface)
com.buabook.common.random
- RandomCodeGenerator: Generates random alphanumeric strings
com.buabook.common.shutdown
- ShutdownThread: Thread that is executed as the JVM shuts down, to allow cleanup prior to exit (using ShutdownFunctions)