About JavaXT

This project was started back in the summer of 2006 when I started porting some of my code from .NET to Java. At the time Java 1.6 was just coming out and I was frustrated by the amount of code required to do some of the most basic operations. I started writing utilities to simplify my code and plug some holes I saw in the core JDK. Over time the code started to grow and I needed a namespace to encapsulate these utilities so I created javaxt.com.

Yup, that's me back in the summer of 2006 contemplating getting into Java.

Of course, a lot has changed since 2006. Java has matured quite a lot over the years and has added a ton of features that simply didn't exist when I first started this project. But I still use my JavaXT libraries every day :-)

I know the code is far from complete and definitely not perfect but I hope you find it useful. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or suggestions at email@pborissow.dev

The JavaXT project and this website are maintained and hosted without any corporate sponsors. As you can see, there are no ads, cookies, etc. There are no 3rd party trackers (e.g. Google). Everything is 100% free and open source and released under a permissive MIT license.

Acknowledgements

When I was first starting off with Java, there was no Stack Exchange, GitHub, or ChatGPT to help guide me. Instead, I found help and inspiration from a bunch of self-hosted, open-source projects. I'd like to specifically acknowledge and thank the following individuals who's code I used to develop portions of the javaxt-core library.

• Qin (Cedric) Zhang
• Developed the original FileSystemWatcher dll and JNI classes used in the java.io.Directory class. I have extended the original code to capture information such as which files are being updated.
• Jerry Huxtable
• Adapted 2 image processing classes in the javaxt.io.Image class to skew an image.
• http://www.jhlabs.com
• Robert Harder
• Mr. Harder developed a native Base64 encoder/decoder for Java. This class is available in the javaxt.utils.Base64 class and is used to encode binary data in the javaxt.webservices.WSDL class.
• http://iharder.net/base64
• Dan Andrews
• Developed the original prototype for the LnkParser class. The LnkParser class is used to parse a windows .lnk files (aka shortcuts). The original code can be found here:
• http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.help/browse_thread/thread/a2e147b07d5480a2/
• Christian d'Heureuse
• Developed the MiniConnectionPoolManager - A lightweight standalone Java JDBC connection pool manager. This class is available in the javaxt.sql.ConnectionPool class. Original code can be found here:
• http://www.source-code.biz/miniconnectionpoolmanager/
• Norman Walsh
• Developed an EXIF metadata parser for the W3C Jigsaw project. A modified version of the EXIF metadata parser is found in the javaxt.io.Image class. Original code can be found here:
• http://jigsaw.w3.org/Doc/Programmer/api/org/w3c/tools/jpeg/package-summary.html

There are countless others that have helped me along the way, mostly semi-anonymous users on sites like Stack Exchange. Thank you all!