Indeed, almost 3% of the open source projects ever created use at least one lib from Apache Commons !
Wonder if it's a lot ? just imagine that 3% of the customers getting into a supermarket since supermarkets exist, bought at least one of the products you manufactured ... and more than 3 times over 4, this product is the Apache Commons Logging component !!!
TOP 5 most reused components from Apache Commons
- Logging: Wrapper around a variety of logging API implementations.
- Collections: Extends or augments the Java Collections Framework.
- Lang: Provides extra functionality for classes in java.lang.
- BeanUtils: Easy-to-use wrappers around the Java reflection and introspection APIs.
- Httpclient: HttpClient is a HTTP/1.1 compliant HTTP agent implementation based on HttpCore (Httpclient is now an independent project)
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