Top 16 Java Utility Classes

In Java, a utility class is a class that defines a set of methods that perform common functions. This post shows the most frequently used Java utility classes and their most commonly used methods. Both the class list and their method list are ordered by popularity. The data is based on randomly selected 50,000 open source Java projects from GitHub.

在Java中，工具类是一个定义了一系列通用方法的Java类。 这篇文章整理了最常用的一些工具类以及他们最常用的方法。类跟方法都根据常用度来排序。

Hopefully, you can get a basic idea of what are already provided and popular by browsing the list so that you know you don't need to program it by yourself. The names of the methods normally indicate their functions. You may also click on the methods to see how they are used in open source projects.

通过列出的这些基本工具类，希望你可以获得一个基本思路， 能够调用就调用通用类的通用方法，没必要去自己去编码实现。方法的名字一般能够表明发放的功能。但你也需要点击方法进去详细了解该方法的使用。

1. org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils

• closeQuietly ( )
• toString ( )
• copy ( )
• toByteArray ( )
• write ( )
• toInputStream ( )
• readLines ( )
• copyLarge ( )
• lineIterator ( )
• readFully ( )

2. org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils

• deleteDirectory ( )
• readFileToString ( )
• deleteQuietly ( )
• copyFile ( )
• writeStringToFile ( )
• forceMkdir ( )
• write ( )
• listFiles ( )
• copyDirectory ( )
• forceDelete ( )

3. org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils

• isBlank ( )
• isNotBlank ( )
• isEmpty ( )
• isNotEmpty ( )
• equals ( )
• join ( )
• split ( )
• EMPTY
• trimToNull ( )
• replace ( )

4. org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils

• toString ( )
• consume ( )
• toByteArray ( )
• consumeQuietly ( )
• getContentCharSet ( )

5. org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils

• isBlank ( )
• isNotBlank ( )
• isEmpty ( )
• isNotEmpty ( )
• join ( )
• equals ( )
• split ( )
• EMPTY
• replace ( )
• capitalize ( )

6. org.apache.commons.io.FilenameUtils

• getExtension ( )
• getBaseName ( )
• getName ( )
• concat ( )
• removeExtension ( )
• normalize ( )
• wildcardMatch ( )
• separatorsToUnix ( )
• getFullPath ( )
• isExtension ( )

7. org.springframework.util.StringUtils

• hasText ( )
• hasLength ( )
• isEmpty ( )
• commaDelimitedListToStringArray ( )
• collectionToDelimitedString ( )
• replace ( )
• delimitedListToStringArray ( )
• uncapitalize ( )
• collectionToCommaDelimitedString ( )
• tokenizeToStringArray ( )

8. org.apache.commons.lang.ArrayUtils

• contains ( )
• addAll ( )
• clone ( )
• isEmpty ( )
• add ( )
• EMPTY_BYTE_ARRAY
• subarray ( )
• indexOf ( )
• isEquals ( )
• toObject ( )

9. org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils

• escapeHtml ( )
• unescapeHtml ( )
• escapeXml ( )
• escapeSql ( )
• unescapeJava ( )
• escapeJava ( )
• escapeJavaScript ( )
• unescapeXml ( )
• unescapeJavaScript ( )

10. org.apache.http.client.utils.URLEncodedUtils

• format ( )
• parse ( )

11. org.apache.commons.codec.digest.DigestUtils

• md5Hex ( )
• shaHex ( )
• sha256Hex ( )
• sha1Hex ( )
• sha ( )
• md5 ( )
• sha512Hex ( )
• sha1 ( )

12. org.apache.commons.collections.CollectionUtils

• isEmpty ( )
• isNotEmpty ( )
• select ( )
• transform ( )
• filter ( )
• find ( )
• collect ( )
• forAllDo ( )
• addAll ( )
• isEqualCollection ( )

13. org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils

• contains ( )
• isEmpty ( )
• isNotEmpty ( )
• add ( )
• clone ( )
• addAll ( )
• subarray ( )
• indexOf ( )
• EMPTY_OBJECT_ARRAY
• EMPTY_STRING_ARRAY

14. org.apache.commons.beanutils.PropertyUtils

• getProperty ( )
• setProperty ( )
• getPropertyDescriptors ( )
• isReadable ( )
• copyProperties ( )
• getPropertyDescriptor ( )
• getSimpleProperty ( )
• isWriteable ( )
• setSimpleProperty ( )
• getPropertyType ( )

15. org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils

• unescapeHtml4 ( )
• escapeHtml4 ( )
• escapeXml ( )
• unescapeXml ( )
• escapeJava ( )
• escapeEcmaScript ( )
• unescapeJava ( )
• escapeJson ( )
• escapeXml10 ( )

16. org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtils

• copyProperties ( )
• getProperty ( )
• setProperty ( )
• describe ( )
• populate ( )
• copyProperty ( )
• cloneBean ( )

* The utility classes from android are excluded since they are designed for Android apps. If you want to see more details, you can search "utils" in the search portal:  http://www.programcreek.com/java-api-examples/index.php . If the name of a utility class does not contain "utils", the class is not selected.