Jakarta project

The Jakarta Project was started in 1999 by the Apache Software Foundation . It hosted, developed, and supported free software written in the Java programming language . Since 2005, more and more Jakarta projects have become Apache top-level projects. In December 2009 Jakarta still consisted of the following sub-projects:

• Byte Code Engineering Library (BCEL): makes it easier to analyze, create and manipulate Java bytecode .
• Bean Scripting Framework (BSF)
• Cactus (formerly J2EE Unit )
• Element Construction Set (ECS)
• JCS
• Apache JMeter
• ORO
• Regexp

On December 21, 2011, all former Jakarta projects were discontinued or became Apache top-level projects and Jakarta was thus ended.

Former Jakarta projects

Former Jakarta projects, which now top level Apache projects are

• Ant
• Commons: The Apache Commons project contains several dozen small, reusable components that complement the Java library. Many of these components are also used by other Jakarta projects.
• Excalibur
• Gump
• HttpComponents
• James
• Logging
• Lucene
• Maven
• POI : The goal of the POI project is to develop libraries that can read and write the file formats used by Microsoft Office
• Struts
• Tapestry
• Tomcat
• turbine
• Velocity

Other former Jakarta projects

• Avalon
• HiveMind
• Log4j (now part of the Apache logging project)
• Portals
• Taglibs : Libraries of special tags for JavaServer Pages (partly adopted in Apache Taglibs)
• Watchdog

Web links

• Jakarta website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Apache Jakarta subprojects
2. ↑ Jakarta Retired. In: jakarta.apache.org. December 21, 2011, accessed January 23, 2014 .