ApacheCon EU 2016

Apache Commons is an Apache project focused on all aspects of reusable Java components. The Commons Lang component provides the well known StringUtils class. But there is more to Apache Commons then just StringUtils. In this presentation, Benedikt Ritter will give an overview over the Apache Commons project followed by some examples for using selected Apache Commons components.

Apache Commons Crypto is a cross-platform cryptographic library optimized with AES-NI and hardware random number generator. With the benefits of hardware acceleration and the optimized native implementation, this library outperformed JCE by an order of magnitude. Java developers can use this handy library to get strong and high performance AES encryption/decryption. This presentation will introduce the origin of Apache Commons CRYPTO, the recent improvements in commons crypto community, how CRYPTO accelerates data encryption, and the future plan of Apache Commons Crypto.