sormuras/modules

The main goal of this project is to collect Unique Java Modules. As a side product, it also assembles an overview of "almost all" Java modules published at Maven Central since August 2018.

You're welcome to extend The Watch, because modules are coming... and soon the rhyme goes "Modules, Modules, every where!"

Unique Java Modules

Here's the daily updated 🦄 modules.properties file of unique modules.

This project considers a Java module to be unique:

• if it is an explicit module with a compiled module descriptor,
• and if its module name that starts with its Maven Group ID or a well-known alias.

Well-known aliases are defined as:

static String computeMavenGroupAlias(String group) {
  return switch (group) {
    case "com.fasterxml.jackson.core" -> "com.fasterxml.jackson";
    case "com.github.almasb" -> "com.almasb";
    case "javax.json" -> "java.json";
    case "net.colesico.framework" -> "colesico.framework";
    case "org.jetbrains.kotlin" -> "kotlin";
    case "org.jfxtras" -> "jfxtras";
    case "org.openjfx" -> "javafx";
    case "org.ow2.asm" -> "org.objectweb.asm";
    case "org.projectlombok" -> "lombok";
    case "org.swimos" -> "swim";
    default -> group.replace("-", "");
  };
}

Find module com.github.sormuras.modules also attached as an executable JAR and ToolProvider in the assets of releases/tag/0-ea. Stable versions of it are published to releases; with releases/latest pointing to the latest stable release.

More Modules found at Maven Central

This doc directory hosts lists of Maven Group:Artifact coordinates in text files. They are taken as an input of the scan process. The scanner generates overview tables showing the state of modularization for each Group:Artifact coordinate. All JAR files published to Maven Central that were analyzed and recorded by the modulescanner are evaluated using their latest version. That modulescanner was activated in mid of August 2018 - meaning earlier publications can not be evaluated here.

You'll find the following summary at the start of each overview.

• 🧩 denotes a Java module that contains a compiled module descriptor. It therefore provides a stable module name and an explicit modular API using exports, provides, opens and other directives.

• ⬜ denotes an automatic Java module, with its stable module name derived from Automatic-Module-Name manifest entry. Its API is derived from JAR content and therefore may not be stable.

• ⚪ denotes an automatic Java module, with its not stable module name derived from the JAR filename. Its API is derived from JAR content and therefore may not be stable.

• ➖ denotes an unrelated artifact, like BOM, POM, and other non-JAR packaging types. It also denotes old JAR files, as the scan process can only evaluate artifacts that were deployed after mid August 2018.

    2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
🧩  143  163  165  170  171 // Java modules (module descriptor with stable name and API)
⬜  205  262  278  310  312 // Automatic Java modules (name derived from JAR manifest)

Top1000-2023

📜 Top1000-2023.txt.md

Top1000-2023.txt contains 1,000 Maven Group:Artifact lines sorted by download popularity of year 2023.

Top1000-2022

📜 Top1000-2022.txt.md

Top1000-2022.txt contains 1,000 Maven Group:Artifact lines sorted by download popularity as of September 2022.

Top1000-2021

📜 Top1000-2021.txt.md

Top1000-2021.txt contains 1,000 Maven Group:Artifact lines sorted by download popularity of year 2021.

Top1000-2020

📜 Top1000-2020.txt.md

Top1000-2020.txt contains 1,000 Maven Group:Artifact lines sorted by download popularity of year 2020.

Top1000-2019

📜 Top1000-2019.txt.md

Top1000-2019.txt contains 1,000 Maven Group:Artifact lines sorted by download popularity of year 2019.

Suspicious Artifacts

Find lists of suspicious Maven artifacts in the doc/suspicious directory.

For example, a Maven artifact is considered to be suspicious if its JAR file contains an illegal Automatic-Module-Name manifest entry. Illegal? An empty name, a name that contains - characters, a name starting numbers, a name that contains Java keywords, etc., is illegal. Consult chapter Module Declarations of the Java Language Specification for details. TLDR; the name must be usable in requires NAME; directives of other modules.

Another example is a Maven artifact that contains one or more module-info.class files from one or more other Maven artifacts that are already packaged as Java modules. Usually, this is an unwanted side-effect of shad(ow)ing 3rd-party libraries.