A Curated List of 29 Alibaba Open‑Source Projects

1. Spring Cloud Alibaba – Provides a one‑stop solution for developing distributed applications with Spring Cloud, simplifying integration with Alibaba middleware. GitHub

2. Ant Design – An enterprise‑level design language and React UI component library from Ant Financial. GitHub

3. Druid – A high‑performance JDBC connection pool offering monitoring, encryption, and SQL logging features. GitHub

4. fastjson – A fast Java JSON parser and generator with zero external dependencies. GitHub

5. Dubbo – A high‑performance, lightweight Java RPC framework providing remote method invocation, fault tolerance, and load balancing. GitHub

6. JStorm – An enhanced Java implementation of Apache Storm for real‑time stream processing with improved stability and resource scheduling. GitHub

7. apns4j – Java implementation of Apple Push Notification Service. GitHub

8. AntV G2 – A data‑driven visual grammar library for building interactive charts with a single statement. GitHub

9. Dawn – Alibaba Cloud’s internal front‑end build and engineering tool, now open‑source. Site

10. TDDL – A JDBC datasource with master‑slave, read/write separation, and dynamic configuration. GitHub

11. CobarClient – Lightweight distributed data access layer built on MyBatis and Spring. GitHub

12. TaobaoJVM – Alibaba’s customized OpenJDK HotSpot VM used in Taobao and Tmall for performance gains. Site

13. SimpleImage – Java library for image resizing, watermarking, and other processing tasks. GitHub

14. Tedis – High‑availability Java client for Redis, ready for production use. GitHub

15. Arthas – Interactive Java diagnostic tool with command‑line interface and tab completion. Site

16. Nacos – Dynamic service discovery, configuration, and traffic management platform for microservices. Site

17. EasyExcel – Memory‑efficient Excel parsing and generation library that rewrites POI’s handling of XLSX files. GitHub

18. Sentinel – Lightweight flow‑control framework for microservices, offering rate limiting, circuit breaking, and system protection. GitHub

19. SOFALookout – Multi‑dimensional metrics collection and monitoring middleware with Grafana integration. GitHub

20. SOFABoot – Ant Financial’s Spring Boot‑based development framework adding readiness checks, class isolation, and logging space isolation. GitHub

21. SOFAArk – Lightweight Java class‑isolation container enabling Fat‑Jar packaging for single‑module or Spring Boot applications. Site

22. SOFATracer – Distributed tracing component that logs call‑chain information via a unified traceId. GitHub

23. SOFARPC – High‑performance, extensible Java RPC framework with filters, routing, and load‑balancing capabilities. GitHub

24. SOFABolt – Netty‑based network communication framework simplifying Java network programming. GitHub

25. JVM‑Sandbox – Non‑intrusive runtime AOP solution for the JVM. GitHub

26. OpenMessaging – Vendor‑agnostic standard for distributed messaging and stream processing. GitHub

27. Dragonfly – P2P file distribution system that accelerates large‑scale file and container image delivery. GitHub

28. vlayout – VirtualLayout provides a suite of LayoutManager extensions for RecyclerView in Android. GitHub

29. P3C – Java code‑style scanning plugin offering PMD implementation and IDE integrations. GitHub