# The Apache Software Foundation

## Community-driven development since 1999.

### We consider ourselves not simply a group of projects sharing a server, but rather a community of developers and users.

### The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects.

### The Apache projects are defined by collaborative consensus based processes, an open, pragmatic software license and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field.

- Featured Projects »
- Apache Commons EL
- Apache Geronimo
- Apache Ant

#### The ASF is made up of nearly 100 top level projects that cover a wide range of technologies. Chances are if you are looking for a rewarding experience in Open Source, you are going to find it here.

- #### Apache Commons EL

  Commons EL

  JSP 2.0 Expression Language Interpreter Implementation

- #### Apache Geronimo

  Java EE Application Server

  The goal of the Geronimo project is to produce a server runtime framework that pulls together the best Open Source alternatives to create runtimes that meet the needs of developers and system administrators. Our most popular distribution is a fully certified Java EE 5 application server runtime.

- #### Apache Ant

  Java-based build tool

  Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool.

### Latest News

If you would like to keep up with news and announcements from the foundation and all its projects, you can subscribe to the Apache Announcements List or follow the Foundation Blog.

#### Apache News Roundup from the ApacheCon Show Floor

The following newsworthy events took place during the course of ApacheCon North America 1-5 November:

1) Foundation Updates

Membership count: 330 (31 new Members; 52 emeritus)

Committer count: +2,500 (approximately 200 additional Committers over the past year)

The ASF is governed by the community it most directly serves...

#### The ASF asks: Have you met Apache Mahout?
The all-volunteer Apache Software Foundation (ASF) develops, stewards, and incubates nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, many of which power mission-critical applications in financial services, aerospace, publishing, government, healthcare, research, infrastructure, and more.
Did you know that 50% of the Top 10 downloaded Open Source products are Apache projects?...

#### Read Beyond the Headers

Recent reports on various blogs have attributed to the ASF a number of the source files identified by Oracle as ones that they believe infringe on their copyrights. The code in question has an header that mentions Apache, and perhaps that is the source of the confusion. The code itself...

#### Statement by the ASF Board on recent Java-related events

As reported recently in the news and elsewhere, there are two issues currently facing the Foundation that merit a response from the ASF.
At the last JCP Executive Committee meeting in Bonn, Germany, Oracle announced that it will not offer a TCK license for Java SE (for the Apache Harmony...

#### Media Alert: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Maven Version 3.0

Who: The Apache Software Foundation (ASF): all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives.

What: In development for nearly 10 years, and an ASF Top-Level Project since 2003, Apache Maven is the build system of choice for millions of developers and thousands of organizations world-wide....

#### Apache News Roundup from the ApacheCon Show Floor

    The following newsworthy events took place during the course of ApacheCon North America 1-5
    November:

    1) Foundation Updates

    - Membership count: 330 (31 new Members; 52 emeritus)

    - Committer count: +2,500 (approximately 200 additional Committers over the past year)

    The ASF is governed by the community it most directly serves...

#### [ANNOUNCE] Hive 0.6.0 is released!

    The Apache Hive team is proud to announce the release of Hive 0.6.0!

    Hive is a data warehouse system for Hadoop that facilitates easy
    summarization, ad-hoc querying, and analysis of large datasets stored
    in Hadoop compatible file systems. Hive provides a mechanism to put
    structure on this data and query...

#### [ANN] Apache Tomcat Connectors 1.2.31 released

    The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of
    Apache Tomcat Connectors 1.2.31 stable.

    Apache Tomcat Connectors 1.2.31 concentrates mainly on bug fixes.

    Please refer to the change log for the list of changes:
    http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/miscellaneous/changelog.html

    Downloads:
    http://tomcat.apache.org/download-connectors.cgi

    Please note that syncing the release to the download mirrors
    might take up...

#### [ANNOUNCE] Apache Jackrabbit 2.1.2 released

    The Apache Jackrabbit community is pleased to announce the release of
    Apache Jackrabbit 2.1.2. The release is available for download at:

        http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html

    See the full release notes below for details about this release.

    Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit -- Version 2.1.2

    Introduction
    ------------

    This is Apache Jackrabbit 2.1.2, a fully...

#### [ANNOUNCE] Apache Jackrabbit 2.0.3 released

    The Apache Jackrabbit community is pleased to announce the release of
    Apache Jackrabbit 2.0.3. The release is available for download at:

        http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html

    See the full release notes below for details about this release.

    Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit -- Version 2.0.3

    Introduction
    ------------

    Apache Jackrabbit 2.0.3 is a bug fix...

### Latest Activity

This is an overview of activity going on with our projects. SVN commits, bug reports, tweets you name it.

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@TheASF: We are pleased to welcome IBM to The Apache Software Foundation as Gold Sponsors. #ApacheCon
@TheASF: We've had a bit of a nip-and-tuck at apache.org ... a few tweaks are forthcoming. Thanks for bearing with us whilst the bandages come off.
r1032483 Add overview for javadoc (incubator) — edwardyoon
r1032482 DERBY-4891: Enable testing of boolean type in ParameterMappingTest (db) — kahatlen
r1032481 DERBY-4892: Unsafe use of BigDecimal constructors Use BigDecimal.valueOf(long), which is available on all supported platforms. (db) — kahatlen
r1032480 auto-generated rules (spamassassin) — khopesh
r1032479 DERBY-4893: Allow Java 5 language constructs in build code - Changed source and target level for the build code... (db) — kahatlen
[DERBY-4890] Different string to boolean conversion on embedded and client
The following code fragment behaves differently on client and embedded:
PreparedStatement ps = c.prepareStatement("values cast(? as boolean)");
ps.setString(1, "TRUE");
ResultSet...
[HAMA-327] Add overview for javadoc
Add overview.html and few comments.
[DERBY-4891] Enable testing of boolean type in ParameterMappingTest
Now that Derby supports the boolean data type, we should enable tests for boolean in ParameterMappingTest.
[DERBY-4892] Unsafe use of BigDecimal constructors
We have some code that's supposed to work on Java 1.4, but that uses BigDecimal constructors that were not added...
[LUCENENET-380] Evaluate Sharpen as a port tool
This task is to evaluate Sharpen as a port tool for Lucene.Net.

The files to be evaluated are attached. We...

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