The GAMLSS group is releasing a Java API (Application Programming Interface) to be used as an interface by Java software developers requiring a flexible modelling framework for statistical modelling. The GAMLSS-Java is a library of lightweight, self-contained statistics components of the GAMLSS framework. The key advantage is that there is limited dependencies – only one external dependency is used (Apache Commons) and the core Java platform The GAMLSS-Java library is released under the Free Academic Licence version 3.0 by ABM Analytics Ltd and is available from here: http://code.google.com/p/gamlss-java/.