Accounting

Judgement

What it is

Building block

What it does

A small in-memory Java library for charts of accounts, double-entry transactions and trial balances.

Adopt it when

You want to study a minimal double-entry model in Java; not for production ledgers.

Watch out

In-memory only, no releases, and no push since mid-2023.

Ready for

Experimental

Runs as

Library

Built with

Java and Lombok

How established

Established: started 10 years ago, no tagged release yet.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Accounting → JDK → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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