Jakarta Project - Definition and Overview

The Jakarta Project creates and maintains open source solutions in Java. Major contributions by the Jakarta Project include tools, libraries and frameworks such as:

• Slide
• Tomcat - a JSP/Servlet container
• Turbine
• Velocity - a template engine
• POI - a pure Java port of Microsoft's popular file formats.
• Commons - a collection of useful classes meant to be complement to Java's standard library.

Following are the list of Jakarta-related projects

• Ant - a build tool
• Maven - a project build tool
• OJB
• Struts
• Torque

Jakarta is under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation.

External links

• The Jakarta home page (http://jakarta.apache.org/)
• The Apache Software Foundation website (http://www.apache.org/)