Essential Spring Boot Dependency Collection for Java Projects

Dependency Management Package

Declare the custom dependency management package pangju-dependencies as the parent of a Spring Boot project using the parent tag or import it via dependencyManagement:

<parent>
  <groupId>io.github.pangju666</groupId>
  <artifactId>pangju-dependencies</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.0</version>
  <relativePath/>
</parent>

<dependencyManagement>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>io.github.pangju666</groupId>
      <artifactId>pangju-dependencies</artifactId>
      <version>1.0.0</version>
      <type>pom</type>
      <scope>import</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

Core Libraries

IO Utilities commons-io 2.18.0 – Simplifies file and stream operations. commons-exec 1.4.0 – Enhanced process execution beyond ProcessBuilder and Runtime.exec().

File Handling commons-compress 1.27.1 – Supports ZIP, TAR, 7z (requires xz for 7z). tika-core 3.1.0 and tika-parsers-standard-package – Extract text and metadata from over 1200 file formats.

Image Processing metadata-extractor 2.19.0 – Reads EXIF, IPTC, XMP metadata. thumbnailator 0.4.20 – Easy thumbnail generation (watch heap usage for large images). jai-imageio-core 1.4.0 and related JPEG2000/JBIG2 extensions – Adds support for additional image formats.

Networking commons-net 3.11.1 – FTP, SMTP, POP3, etc.

Collections & Math commons-collections4 4.4.4 – Extra collection types and utilities. commons-math3 3.6.1 – Linear algebra, statistics, optimization. commons-numbers-core 1.2 – Advanced numeric types (complex, gamma, factorial). big-math 2.3.2 – High‑precision BigDecimal math functions.

String Utilities commons-text 1.13.0 – String similarity, replacement, pattern matching. jpinyin 1.1.8 – Convert Chinese characters to Pinyin (author discontinued).

Security & Encryption commons-crypto 1.2.0 – High‑performance symmetric encryption (no RSA). jasypt 1.9.3 – Simplified encryption API, includes AES implementation.

XML Processing dom4j 2.1.4 – Flexible XML parsing, XPath, XSLT support.

Bean Mapping mapstruct 1.6.3 – Compile‑time generation of type‑safe mappers.

Reflection reflections 0.10.2 – Runtime classpath scanning and metadata indexing.

Authentication java-jwt 4.5.0 – Create and verify JSON Web Tokens. sa-token-bom 1.40.0 – Lightweight Java permission framework.

Concurrency disruptor 4.0.0 – High‑throughput, low‑latency inter‑thread messaging. expiringmap 0.5.11 – In‑memory map with automatic entry expiration (Redis‑like).

Data Access & Caching redisson 3.45.0 and redisson-spring-boot-starter 3.45.0 – Advanced Redis client with distributed locks. dynamic-datasource-spring-boot3-starter 4.3.1 – Runtime switching of multiple data sources. mybatis-plus-bom 3.5.10.1, mybatis 3.5.19, mybatis-spring-boot-starter 3.0.4 – ORM and mapper utilities. p6spy 3.9.1 – SQL logging for debugging.

Testing spock-core 2.4-M5-groovy-4.0 and spock-spring 2.4-M5-groovy-4.0 – BDD‑style testing for Java/Groovy with Spring integration. gmavenplus-plugin 4.1.1 – Maven plugin to compile and run Groovy/Spock tests.

Documentation smart-doc-maven-plugin 3.0.9 – Generates API docs from Java code (Markdown, HTML, OpenAPI).

Additional Utilities

commons-validator 1.9.0

– General purpose validation utilities. commons-configuration2 2.11.0 – Unified configuration handling (properties, XML, JSON, etc.). guava 33.4.0-jre – Rich set of core libraries (collections, caching, concurrency, I/O).

Repository

The full pom.xml and source code are hosted at https://github.com/pangju666/java-pangju-dependencies

Usage Tips

For large file processing (e.g., PDFs, images), consider external command‑line tools such as GraphicsMagick or mupdf to avoid memory pressure.

When using thumbnailator or jai-imageio in high‑concurrency scenarios, monitor heap usage closely.

Combine resilience4j-ratelimiter with Spring Boot for lightweight rate limiting.

Enable p6spy in development to capture executed SQL statements without modifying MyBatis configuration.