Openide util is a collection of miscellaneous libraries from netbeans, a powerful ide for many languages. some of the capabilities are:
* register and then lookup instances of services;
* manage pools of thread workers, in order to do asynchronous
computations;
* provide enhanced support for manipulation of enumeration objects;
* other tools, mainly related with netbeans software.
these libraries are independently packaged in order to be used by other independent software as well.