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  5. FF4J vs Web3j

FF4J vs Web3j

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Overview

Web3j
Web3j
Stacks43
Followers39
Votes0
FF4J
FF4J
Stacks7
Followers16
Votes0
GitHub Stars1.4K
Forks286

Web3j vs FF4J: What are the differences?

Web3j: Lightweight Java and Android library for integration with Ethereum clients. It is a lightweight, highly modular, reactive, type safe Java and Android library for working with Smart Contracts and integrating with clients (nodes) on the Ethereum network. This allows you to work with the Ethereum blockchain, without the additional overhead of having to write your own integration code for the platform; FF4J: Feature Flags for Java made easy. It is an implementation of Feature Toggle pattern : Enable and disable features or your applications at runtime thanks to dedicated web console, REST API, JMX or even CLI. It handle also properties and provide generic interfaces.

Web3j and FF4J are primarily classified as "Java" and "Feature Flags Management" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Web3j are:

  • Complete implementation of Ethereum's JSON-RPC client API over HTTP and IPC
  • Ethereum wallet support
  • Auto-generation of Java smart contract wrappers to create, deploy, transact with and call smart contracts from native Java code (Solidity and Truffle definition formats supported)

On the other hand, FF4J provides the following key features:

  • Feature Toggle
  • Role-based Toggling
  • Strategy-based Toggling

Web3j is an open source tool with 2.78K GitHub stars and 1.01K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Web3j's open source repository on GitHub.

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Detailed Comparison

Web3j
Web3j
FF4J
FF4J

It is a lightweight, highly modular, reactive, type safe Java and Android library for working with Smart Contracts and integrating with clients (nodes) on the Ethereum network. This allows you to work with the Ethereum blockchain, without the additional overhead of having to write your own integration code for the platform.

It is an implementation of Feature Toggle pattern : Enable and disable features or your applications at runtime thanks to dedicated web console, REST API, JMX or even CLI. It handle also properties and provide generic interfaces.

Complete implementation of Ethereum's JSON-RPC client API over HTTP and IPC; Ethereum wallet support; Auto-generation of Java smart contract wrappers to create, deploy, transact with and call smart contracts from native Java code (Solidity and Truffle definition formats supported); Reactive-functional API for working with filters; Ethereum Name Service (ENS) support; Support for Parity's Personal, and Geth's Personal client APIs; Support for Infura, so you don't have to run an Ethereum client yourself
Feature Toggle; Role-based Toggling; Strategy-based Toggling; AOP-driven Toggling; Features Monitoring; Web Console; Wide choice of Databases; Spring Boot Starter; Command Line Interface
Statistics
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Stars
1.4K
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
286
Stacks
43
Stacks
7
Followers
39
Followers
16
Votes
0
Votes
0
Integrations
Linux
Linux
macOS
macOS
Ethereum
Ethereum
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch
MongoDB
MongoDB
Cassandra
Cassandra
MariaDB
MariaDB
Spring Boot
Spring Boot
Java
Java
Redis
Redis
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB
Consul
Consul

What are some alternatives to Web3j, FF4J?

Quarkus

Quarkus

It tailors your application for GraalVM and HotSpot. Amazingly fast boot time, incredibly low RSS memory (not just heap size!) offering near instant scale up and high density memory utilization in container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. We use a technique we call compile time boot.

MyBatis

MyBatis

It is a first class persistence framework with support for custom SQL, stored procedures and advanced mappings. It eliminates almost all of the JDBC code and manual setting of parameters and retrieval of results. It can use simple XML or Annotations for configuration and map primitives, Map interfaces and Java POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects) to database records.

ConfigCat

ConfigCat

Cross-platform feature flag service for Teams. It is a hosted or on-premise service with a web app for feature management, and SDKs for all major programming languages and technologies.

Ethereum

Ethereum

A decentralized platform for applications that run exactly as programmed without any chance of fraud, censorship or third-party interference.

Unleash Hosted

Unleash Hosted

It is a simple feature management system. It gives you great overview of all feature toggles across all your applications. You decide who is exposed to which feature.

Hyperledger Fabric

Hyperledger Fabric

It is a collaborative effort created to advance blockchain technology by identifying and addressing important features and currently missing requirements. It leverages container technology to host smart contracts called “chaincode” that comprise the application logic of the system.

guava

guava

The Guava project contains several of Google's core libraries that we rely on in our Java-based projects: collections, caching, primitives support, concurrency libraries, common annotations, string processing, I/O, and so forth.

LaunchDarkly

LaunchDarkly

Serving over 200 billion feature flags daily to help software teams build better software, faster. LaunchDarkly helps eliminate risk for developers and operations teams from the software development cycle.

Airship

Airship

Airship is a modern product flagging framework that gives the right people total control over what your customers see & experience - without deploying code.

Thymeleaf

Thymeleaf

It is a modern server-side Java template engine for both web and standalone environments. It is aimed at creating elegant web code while adding powerful features and retaining prototyping abilities.

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