An alternative to RMI which does not require the use of java.rmi.Remote and uses an unchecked substitute for RemoteException, so that "throws RemoteException" is no longer needed. [Open Source, BSD-like]

Implementation of the SOAP protocol - a lightweight protocol for exchanging information, based on XML. HTTP and SMTP (i.e. email) transmission are both supported. [Open Source, BSD-like]

Free implementation of the SSL v3 and TLSv1 (RFC2246) protocols. Now freely downloadable due to a change in US export rules. [Open Source, BSD-like]

Provides audio and video streaming support for applets and applications. [Commercial]

A framework for building, deploying and managing well-described REST-ful Web services (XML+HTTP+Linking), including REST-ful Web Services realizations for RSS, XML Topic Maps, Structured Arguments, and Workflow.

Library to connect to a CVS server. [Open Source, LGPL]

Includes the SNMP Manager Toolkit which is a Java class library for developing SNMP management applications. It supports all SNMP management operations such as encoding, decoding, protocol data unit exchanges, and transport. It provides both synchronous and asynchronous mechanisms for exchanging PDUs with SNMP agents. By Netaphor Software Inc.

A toolkit for the Simulation of Distributed Algorithms in Java.

A 100% pure Java toolkit enables to write distributed applications that can interact with existing RPC application written in C. Supports Secure RPC by implementing DES authentication and XML RPC extensions to turn an ONC RPC server into a web service. [Shareware]

A secure version of edtFTPj Java FTP client library implementing the FTPS protocol. [Commercial]

A set of network utility components for Java development. Including EzSMTP, EzPOP, EzMulticast, EzClock, EzWhois.[Shareware and freeware]

A suite of objects implementing rfc959 ftp client. [Open source, GPL]

Provide basic ftp client functions including get or put ascii/binary file, delete file, rename file, change directory. [Open source]

Contains a simple bean implementing the FTP protocol as an API, and a User Interface bean which implements an FTP front end. [Open Source, IBM Public License]

Architecture for constructing dialogue systems. Its plug-and-play approach enables developers to combine architecture-compliant commercial software and cutting edge research components. [Open source]

Automates website testing, including form submission, JavaScript, basic http authentication, cookies and automatic page redirection, and allows Java test code to examine returned pages either as text, an XML DOM, or containers of forms, tables, and links. [Open Source, MIT]

Beans implementing the SNMP protocol and providing a user interface to it. [Open Source, IBM Public License]

Offers components for frequently used Internet protocols: FTP, HTTP, MIME, NNTP, POP3, SMTP, and telnet. [Commercial]

an agent development platform/framework for developing distributed, mobile, and reactive information agents with heterogeneous communication capabilities, in Java and JPython. [Open source, LGPL]

A package for Java that allows distributed Java applications (or even applets) to acces a shared object space for coordination and data sharing purposes. [Freeware]

An entire FTP client library written in Java. It allows to embed FTP functionality in Java applications. [Open source, LGPL]

Reliable multicasting in Java - flexible protocol stack that can be configured to provide any type of multicast communication transport. [Open source, LGPL]

An abstract framework for rapid development of distributed business applications. By Lintec-Solution Gmbh.

A Java library which will allow your applications to make IRC communications. [Open source, LGPL]

A class libraries for Java enable you to write applications to access, manage, update, and search for information stored in directories accessible using LDAPv3. Contributed by Novell. [Open source]

A complete NFS v2 server written in 100% pure Java. [Open Source, LGPL]

Implementation of the ISO-8583 protocol - acts as a framework for financial exchange/payment. It can be used to implement EFT interchanges, switches, payment gateways, POS software and e-commerce sites. [Open Source, GPL]

A Java object (de)serialization and messaging library which uses a more compact format than XML-RPC. It is also easier to use than most SOAP implementations.

A Java implementation of SDP protocol that provides a standard representation for information that describe multi-media sessions. This information are included within other protocol messages as payload. jSDP is a Java library that enable users to manipulate SDP messages.

An optimized Java SNMP class library. It provides complete SNMPv1/v2c/v3 support including trap/inform handling, generation, and forwarding plus authentication and privacy password alteration. [Commercial]

Language- and platform-independent protocol for peer-to-peer networking, developed by Sun. Initial implementation in Java. [Open Source, BSD-like]

An SNMP MIB parser library for Java. It can read SNMPv1, SNMPv2, and SNMPv3 MIB files, as well as simple ASN.1 files. [Open source, GPL]

A class library to access remote NFS file systems from Java. [Time-limited evaluation only]

Allows one to export anything (for example, a .tar file) as an NFS filesystem. One can then mount it from an NFS client and use it just as if it were a regular filesystem. [Open Source, GPL]

A plug compatible with the java.net.HttpURLConnection class HTTP client has many features not provided by the Java/Sun implementation including HTTP NTLM client authentication support on a non-Windows platform, connection pool throttling, connection/request timeouts, idle connection timeouts.

Using Java, XML & XSL, a scalable, distributed network and systems management platform allowing enterprise and element management capabilities in an open source architecture. [Open Source, GPL]

Includes early draft of JXTA text written by Brendon Wilson.

A library/framework for quick creation of robust and multi-threaded, multi-client TCP server applications. [Open source, LGPL]

Implementation of Sun's ONC/RPC protocol, both for clients and servers, including jrpcgen tool. [Open Source, LGPL]

A set of Java FTP components. Included are client components for both FTP and Secure FTP (SFTP). [Shareware]

Provides a 100% Pure Java client API to access NFS servers, similar to the java.io API.

A Java class library that implements the SyncML data synchronization protocol. Also a standalone SyncML server and client.

A small, simple, powerful framework; to dynamically link Virtual Machines into a seamless continuum. It is a 'drop-in' architecture, requiring no application redesign to use it. [Open source, LGPL]

Lightweight SNMP stack in Java, with examples. The stack provides manager functionality for SNMPv1, SNMPv2c and SNMPv3 (authentication and privacy). It is capable of sending and receiving traps. [Open source]

A lightweight implementation of SOAP 1.1 for J2ME (CLDC and CDC).

A peer-to-peer software daemon and API to develop, deploy, discover and use components or applications over http without regard to type of hardware, OS, or programming environment. [Open source]