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Apache Geronimo Becomes an Official ASF Project

The Apache Geronimo project has been approved as an official project of the ASF. The objective of Apache Geronimo is to produce an open source, certified implementation of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) specification.

See our recent press release

Apache HTTP Server: Dialtone of the World Wide Web

The Apache Software Foundation is commemorating eight uninterrupted, consecutive years of web server market leadership. A continuation of the early NCSA httpd project, the Apache Software Foundation's HTTP Server has been the leading web server platform since 1996. Founded as a collaborative effort aimed at creating a robust, commercial grade, standards-compliant, and feature-rich HTTP server, we are thrilled that the worldwide Internet community has embraced open source as a viable model for software product development. Our achievement is testament to the benefits of the process of open source software development itself.

See our recent press release

Highlighted Projects

Here are just a couple of the many interesting projects which are provided by the Apache Software Foundation.

Maven

Maven is a Java project management and project comprehension tool. In a nutshell Maven aims to make the developer's life easier by providing a well defined project structure, well defined development processes to follow, and a coherent body of documentation that keeps your developers and clients apprised of what's happening with your project.