JaCoCo is a production-grade Java code coverage library that instruments JVM bytecode at runtime or offline to collect execution data, then analyzes and reports coverage metrics (lines, branches, instructions, methods, cyclomatic complexity). It is not a standalone application but a multi-module toolset: a Java agent (`jacocoagent.jar`) for on-the-fly instrumentation, a CLI (`jacococli.jar`) for offline operations, a Maven plugin (`jacoco-maven-plugin`) with goals like `prepare-agent`, `report`, `check`, and Ant tasks. The core library (`org.jacoco.core`) handles bytecode manipulation via ASM, probe insertion, and coverage analysis; the report module (`org.jacoco.report`) generates HTML, CSV, XML, and rule-based check outputs. The architecture follows a layered design: instrumentation → runtime data collection → analysis → reporting, with a visitor pattern for report generation and a filter framework to ignore compiler-generated bytecode (e.g., synthetic methods, Kotlin coroutines, try-with-resources). External dependencies include ASM for bytecode engineering, args4j for CLI parsing, and Google Code Prettify for HTML syntax highlighting. The project supports Java versions 5 through 28 (including preview features) and JVM languages like Kotlin, Groovy, and Scala through extensive compiler-specific filters.