sMeta is a very simple, extensible Java API for reading metadata from files of various formats, such as ID3 tags from MP3 files, EXIF data from JPEG files, chunks from PNG files, etc.
If you have a need to read metadata from files, sMeta can help you. Some metadata formats sMeta implements directly, and others sMeta provides a thin wrapper around other metadata libraries. If sMeta does not currently support a file type you need to work with, it is easily extended to support it.
The design principles for sMeta are:
You can browse the most recent stable release API
documentation online. These are also included in the release package in
the docs/api
directory.
For a quick introduction, see the Getting Started document, which shows how to get started using sMeta very quickly.
The sMeta project page on SourceForge contains project info.