Jakarta Project
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The Jakarta Project creates and maintains open source software for the Java platform. It operates as an umbrella project under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation, and all of Jakarta products are released under the Apache License.
Subprojects
Major contributions by the Jakarta Project include tools, libraries and frameworks such as:
- BCEL - a Java byte code manipulation library
- BSF - a scripting framework
- Cactus - a unit testing framework for server-side Java classes
- Commons - a collection of useful classes meant to be complement to Java's standard library.
- HiveMind - a services and configuration microkernel
- JMeter - a load- and stress-testing tool
- POI - a pure Java port of Microsoft's popular file formats.
- Slide - a content repository primarily using WebDAV
- Tapestry - A component object model based on JavaBeans properties and strong specifications.
- Turbine - a rapid development web application framework
- Velocity - a template engine
Following projects were formerly part of Jakarta:
- Ant - a build tool
- Maven - a project build and management tool
- Struts - a web application development framework
- Tomcat - a JSP/Servlet container
Project History
A frequent question in discussions related to Jakarta regards the origin of the name. Jakarta is not directly named after the capital city of Indonesia, nor after the Jakarta blue butterfly species. Instead, it is named after the conference room at Sun Microsystems where the majority of discussions leading to the project's creation took place. For more of Jakarta's history, please see the JavaWorld article from June 1999.