Caramel - Open Source Core Java Toolbox

What is Caramel?

Caramel is a collection of open-source Java utility classes. Caramel includes

Class utility methods letting you find out the jar's file name housing the passed in class.
Color utility methods and constants letting you use more than a hundred predefined colors by name such as azure, chocolate, deepskyblue, indigo, sienna, tomato and so on.
Date utility methods to get a timestamp in a RFC-1123 format as used by millions of web servers.
File utility methods to get a file's extension such as .jnlp, to save a stream to a file, to pack a file's content into a string, to copy a file and much more.
MIME utility methods to guess a files MIME type by its file extension.
Net utility methods to get an IP quad's address class.
String utility methods to fill in templates, to get date differences in plain english such as 5 days ago, yesterday or 3 hours ago, and much more.

Caramel Class Sampling

Class	Description
`ClassUtils`	Use `getJarFileName()` to find out the jar's file name housing the passed in class.
`ColorUtils`	Use more than a hundred predefined colors by name such as azure, chocolate, deepskyblue, indigo, sienna, tomato and so on.
`DateUtils`	Use `getHttpDate()` to get a timestamp in a RFC-1123 format used by millions of web servers.
`FileUtils`	Use `getFileExtension()` to get a file's extension such as `.jnlp`. Use `saveStreamToFile()` to save a stream to a file with a one-liner. Use `getFileAsString()` to pack a file's content into a string with a one-liner. Use `copy()` to copy a file with a one-liner.
`MimeUtils`	Use `guessContentTypeFromName()` to guess a files MIME type by its file extension.
`NetUtils`	Use `isLoopbackIp()`, `isPrivateIp()`, `getIpClass()` and more to analyze IP addresses.
`StringUtils`	Use `fillTemplate()` as a tiny template engine. Use `getPrettyPrintedDateDifference()` to get date differences in plain English such as 5 days ago, yesterday or 3 hours ago.


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