7. General-purpose functions that do not depend on the application

• 7.1. Logging
• 7.2. Properties Management
• 7.3. Date operations (JSR-310 Date and Time API)
• 7.4. Date Operations (Joda Time)
• 7.5. System Date
• 7.6. String Processing
• 7.7. Bean Mapping (Dozer)