Jakarta Project Totally Explained

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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
ECS - The Element Construction Set is a Java API for generating elements for various markup languages.
HttpComponents- The Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol.
JCS - JCS is a distributed caching system written in java.
JMeter - a load- and stress-testing tool.
ORO - Java classes that provide Perl5 compatible regular expressions.
Regexp - Pure Java Regular Expression package.
Slide - a content repository primarily using WebDAV.
Taglibs - Repository for JSP custom tag libraries.

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 port of Microsoft's popular file formats.

Struts - a web application development framework

Tapestry - A component object model based on JavaBeans properties and strong specifications

Tomcat - a JSP/Servlet container

Turbine - a rapid development web application framework

Velocity - a template engine

Project History

Jakarta isn't directly named after the capital city of Indonesia, nor after the Jakarta blue butterfly species. Instead, it's named after the conference room at Sun Microsystems where the majority of discussions leading to the project's creation took place. This was in turn almost certainly named after the city, which is located on the island of Java. The JavaWorld article from June 1999

contains more information about Jakarta's history.

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