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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. ... The Java platform is the name for a computing environment, or platform, from Sun Microsystems which can run applications developed using the Java programming language and set of development tools. ... The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a non-profit corporation (classified as 501(c)3 in the United States) to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server. ... The Apache License (Apache Software License previous to version 2. ...


Subprojects

Major contributions by the Jakarta Project include tools, libraries and frameworks such as: In computer science, a library is a collection of subprograms used to develop software. ... In software development, a framework is a defined support structure in which another software project can be organized and developed. ...

  • 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 intended to complement Java's standard library.
  • 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.
  • POI - a pure Java port of Microsoft's popular file formats.
  • Regexp - Pure Java Regular Expression package.
  • Slide - a content repository primarily using WebDAV.
  • Taglibs - Repository for JSP custom tag libraries.
  • Turbine - a rapid development web application framework.
  • Velocity - a template engine.

Following projects were formerly part of Jakarta: Cactus is a simple test framework for unit testing server-side java code (Servlets, EJBs, Tag libs, ...) from the Jakarta Project. ... The Jakarta Commons is a subproject of the Jakarta Project under the umbrella of the Apache Software Foundation. ... JMeter is an Apache Jakarta project that can be used as a load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of a variety of services, with a focus on web applications. ... POI, a sub-project of the Apache Jakarta Project, provides pure Java libraries for reading and writing files in Microsoft Office formats, such as Word and Excel. ... Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. ... Slide is an open-source content management system from the Jakarta project. ... WebDAV is an IETF working group. ... Jakarta Velocity is an open source package directed by the Jakarta Project. ... In computer science, generics is a technique that allows one value to take different datatypes (so-called polymorphism) as long as certain contracts such as subtypes and signature are kept. ...

Apache Ant is a software tool for automating software build processes. ... Build Automation is the act of scripting or automating the process of compiling computer source code into binary code. ... Maven is a software tool for Java programming language project management and automated software build. ... Apache Struts is an open-source framework for developing Java EE web applications. ... Apache Tomcat is a web container developed at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). ... JavaServer Pages (JSP) is a Java technology that allows software developers to dynamically generate HTML, XML or other types of documents in response to a Web client request. ... The Java Servlet API allows a software developer to add dynamic content to a web server using the Java platform. ... Tapestry is a Java-based programming toolkit that uses XML to implement applications in accordance with the model-view-controller design pattern. ... Hivemind is a computer software framework, written in Java. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

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 (which happens to be located on the Java island), 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. View of the Puncak area in West Java Java (Indonesian: Jawa) is the most populous of Indonesias islands, and the site of its capital city, Jakarta. ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Old Farts by the Sometimes-United Nations. ...


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Apache HTTP Server is a free software/open source web server for Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows, Novell NetWare and other operating systems. ... Apache Ant is a software tool for automating software build processes. ... The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is a supporting library for the Apache web server. ... Apache Beehive is a Java Application Framework designed to make the development of J2EE based applications quicker and easier. ... Apache Cocoon, often just called Cocoon, is a web development framework built around the concepts of separation of concerns and component-based web development. ... The Apache Directory Server is an open source project of the Apache Software Foundation. ... Apache Forrest is a web-publishing framework based on Apache Cocoon. ... The Geronimo project is a free software application server developed by the Apache Software Foundation and distributed under the Apache license. ... iBATIS is a persistence framework which enables mapping sql queries to POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects). ... The Jackrabbit Project has been formed to develop an open source implementation of the Content Repository for Java Technology API (JCR), being specified within the Java Community Process as JSR-170. ... The Apache Java Enterprise Mail Server (a. ... Apache Lenya is a Java/XML open-source content management system based on the Apache Cocoon content management framework. ... Maven is a software tool for Java programming language project management and automated software build. ... Apache MyFaces is an open-source JavaServer Faces implementation developed by the Apache Software Foundation. ... mod_perl is an optional module for the Apache web server. ... SpamAssassin is a computer program released freely under the Apache License 2. ... Apache Struts is an open-source framework for developing Java EE web applications. ... Apache Tomcat is a web container developed at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). ... Apache Axis is an open source, Java and XML based Web service framework consisting of an implementation of the SOAP server, and various utilities and APIs for generating and deploying Web service applications. ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ... Tapestry is a Java-based programming toolkit that uses XML to implement applications in accordance with the model-view-controller design pattern. ... Hivemind is a computer software framework, written in Java. ... WebWork is a Java web-application development framework developed by OpenSymphony. ... The Bean Scripting Framework is a method of allowing the use of scripting in Java code. ... Cactus is a simple test framework for unit testing server-side java code (Servlets, EJBs, Tag libs, ...) from the Jakarta Project. ... The Jakarta Commons is a subproject of the Jakarta Project under the umbrella of the Apache Software Foundation. ... JMeter is an Apache Jakarta project that can be used as a load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of a variety of services, with a focus on web applications. ... POI, a sub-project of the Apache Jakarta Project, provides pure Java libraries for reading and writing files in Microsoft Office formats, such as Word and Excel. ... Slide is an open-source content management system from the Jakarta project. ... Jakarta Velocity is an open source package directed by the Jakarta Project. ... Apache Derby is a Java-based Relational Database Management System that can be embedded in Java programs and used for online transaction processing (OLTP). ... Lucene is a free open source, information retrieval API originally implemented in Java by Doug Cutting. ... Nutch is an effort to build an open source search engine. ... Hadoop is a collection of Free Java software previously developed by the Nutch project but now maintainted by Lucene[1]. The system includes a distributed filesystem reminiscent of GoogleFS named the Hadoop Distributed File System (or just DFS[1]), a clone of MapReduce called HadoopMapReduce[2] and a few other... AxKit is an XML publishing framework run by the Apache foundation written in Perl AxKit. ... Xalan is a popular open source software component from the Apache Software Foundation that implements the XSLT XML transformation language and the XPath XML query language. ... Xerces is a family of software packages for parsing and manipulating XML, part of the Apache XML project. ... Batik is a pure-Java library that can be used to render, generate, and manipulate SVG graphics. ... For other uses, see FOP (disambiguation). ... ... Apache Harmony is an open source implementation of Java, starting with Java SE 5. ... OpenEJB is an open source, modular, configurable, and extendable EJB Container System and EJB Server, released under the Apache 2. ... Apache ServiceMix is an open source distributed enterprise service bus (ESB) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) toolkit. ... Apache ActiveMQ is an open source (Apache 2. ... Apache Open For Business (Apache OFBiz) is Open Source automation software that is currently an Apache Incubator project. ... Wicket is a web application framework for the Java programming language that reached version 1. ... log4net is a port of the log4j logging framework to the Microsoft . ... Roller Weblogger is a Java-based, full-featured, Multi-blog, Multi-user, Open Source weblog server. ...


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Jakarta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1726 words)
Jakarta was the center of the Dutch effort to retain control over their former colony during the war of independence that ended with the establishment of Indonesia in 1949.
The railroad tracks connect Jakarta to its neighboring cities: Depok and Bogor to the south, Tangerang and Serpong to the west, and Bekasi, Karawang, and Cikampek to the east.
Jakarta is the home of many universities, the oldest of which is the Universitas Indonesia, of which big part of it is now relocated to Depok.
Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Jakarta (1379 words)
Jakarta is divided into five districts of kotamadya headed by walikotamadya (now the term kotamadya has been changed to just kota).
The tollroads also connect Jakarta to the International airport of Soekarno-Hatta to the northwest, to the port of Merak and Tangerang to the west, to Serpong to the southwest, to Depok and Bogor to the south, and to Bekasi, Cibitung and Karawang, Purwakarta and eventually to Bandung to the east.
Jakarta is the home of popular soccer team Persija Jakarta, which regularly plays its matches in the stadium of Lebak Bulus.
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