I am a .NET guy but recently have been placed on a Java project. Is there a java equivalent of .NET’s Enterprise Library? More specifically, I only need a configuration manager, data access helper (parametrization and sanitize), and maybe a logger.
What are the hot tools for java development?
Sounds like the sort of horizontal tools that the likes of Apache Commons provides. These have been around for years, in some cases remaining useful today (e.g. Commons Lang, Commons Configuration), in other case now outdated and superseded by better things (Commons Collections by Google Guava, Commons Logging by SLF4J).
For simplified data access, the likes of iBatis or Spring JDBC are good starting points.