Apache, Sun Come To Terms On Open Source Java

rbeattie writes: "This morning at JavaOne it was announced during the keynote that Sun and Apache have come to an agreement securing the basic right to implement Java specifications in open source. Apache actually went as far as issuing a Press Release about it with information about the agreement. One of the cool things is that Sun actually agreed not only to change various licenses and contracts, release the testing code, but also to let qualifying non-profit open source groups use their 1800 support number while testing." (This is a followup to this earlier story indicating that such an agreement had been reached.)

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good news for the Jakarta subprojects

[ubiquitin]

which are...
Alexandria the documentation project, Ant compiler, Avalon framework, BCEL binary library manipulator, Cactus test framework, Commons , to facilitate reusable java code, ECS for XML interfacing, James the mail server (think IMAP, POP, SMTP etc), Jetspeed the portal component, JMeter, for performance testing, Log4J debugging methods, Lucene text search engine, ORO for perl style regular expressions and awk/sed shit (see regexp below for regexp style), POI which talks to M$ OLE, Regexp for java style regular expressions (see oro above for perl style), Slide WebDAV connectivity component, Struts to integrate with existing Java codebases, Taglibs for JSP custom code, Tomcat the all-important serving container, Turbine security layer, Velocity object oriented(?) theme engine, Watchdog validation tests. Please don't mod me down for all the links.

Each one is to a important Jakarta project and I sincerely wish that someone had explained to me what each one did instead of me having to plow through twenty web pages to get this information. As a side note, do these people know how to name projects or what?!?!!? For example, Turbine has subcomponents "Fulcrum" and "Torque".