The Jakarta Project created and maintained
open source software for the
Java platform. It operated as an umbrella project under the auspices of the
Apache Software Foundation
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, and all Jakarta products are released under the
Apache License. As of December 21, 2011 the Jakarta project was retired because no subprojects were remaining.
In 2018 Jakarta EE, a part of the Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J) project, became the new name for the
Java EE platform at the
Eclipse Foundation.
Subprojects
Major contributions by the Jakarta Project include tools,
libraries and
frameworks
A framework is a generic term commonly referring to an essential supporting structure which other things are built on top of.
Framework may refer to:
Computing
* Application framework, used to implement the structure of an application for an op ...
such as:
*
BCEL - a Java byte code manipulation library
*
BSF - a scripting framework
*
Cactus
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- a unit testing framework for server-side Java classes
*
Apache JMeter - a load- and stress-testing tool.
The following projects were formerly part of Jakarta, but now form independent projects within the Apache Software Foundation:
*
Ant - a
build tool
*
Commons - a collection of useful classes intended to complement Java's standard library.
*
HiveMind - a services and configuration
microkernel
*
Maven - a project build and management tool
*
POI - a pure
Java
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port of Microsoft's popular file formats.
*
Struts - a web application development framework
*
Slide - a content repository primarily using
WebDAV.
*
Tapestry
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- A component object model based on JavaBeans properties and strong specifications
*
Tomcat - a
JSP/
Servlet container
*Turbine - a rapid development web application framework
*
Velocity
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- a
template
Template may refer to:
Tools
* Die (manufacturing), used to cut or shape material
* Mold, in a molding process
* Stencil, a pattern or overlay used in graphic arts (drawing, painting, etc.) and sewing to replicate letters, shapes or designs
...
engine
Project name
Jakarta is named after the conference room at
Sun Microsystems
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where the majority of discussions leading to the project's creation took place.
At the time, Sun's Java software division was headquartered in a Cupertino building where the conference room names were all coffee references.
References
External links
The Jakarta home page
{{Apache Software Foundation
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