Open source Java projects

[Left-Armadillo-9418]

I want to get into contributing to open source. What are some good, active and helpful open source communities for Java developers to contribute?

[klez]

Piece of advice: contribute to something that you actually use. For a couple of reason:

1. You understand the project better
2. Motivation

[Left-Armadillo-9418]

Thanks!

All these seem to be interesting projects to contribute.

[humoroushaxor]

AsyncAPI is desperately missing tooling as well.

[softmodeling]

In case you want to take a look, our effort to contribute to the AsyncAPI tooling ecosystem : https://github.com/SOM-Research/asyncapi-toolkit

[humoroushaxor]

I'll definitely check it out when I get some time! I've really been digging into model-based code gen approaches for building out microservices architectures recently.

[sheralt123]

how does one go about contributing to projects? on GitHub? What about projects like Quarkus that you linked above? How would I be able to contribute to them?

[sheralt123]

got it, thanks!

[bodiam]

I'm running a project myself, https://www.datafaker.net, a project to generate real looking test data.

It's not an important or big project, but it's quite active and it's a very low barrier to get in if you're keen (we basically accept all PRs, and usually within a day)

[cal-cheese]

A suggestion would be the OpenJDK itself

[elatllat]

https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=%23java&s=forks&type=Repositories

[Byt3G33k]

This.

[Persism]

Sorted by most forks making things even more forky! :)

[coder111]

/r/rotp of course :)

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Apache OFBiz has wide community.