jSparrow is a brand of Splendit IT-Consulting GmbH, founded in 2004 in Mauerbach near Vienna, Austria. They specialize in helping companies to optimize their legacy software systems, having software consultants with expertise in both old (Cobol, PL/1, Assembler) and new (Java, .Net) programming platforms. Throughout their consultancy work, clients often asked how to transform existing Java systems to modern and safe Java architecture. The answer was the development of jSparrow, a tool for automatic Java code refactoring.