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    11 Apache Technologies that Have Changed Computing in the Last 10 Years

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    September 2, 2009
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      111 Apache Technologies that Have Changed Computing in the Last 10 Years

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      by Darryl Taft

      211 Apache Technologies that Have Changed Computing in the Last 10 Years

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      3Apache Web Server—The Apache HTTP Server Project
      The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems, including Unix

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      The Apache HTTP Server has been the No. 1 Web server worldwide for more than 13 consecutive years, serving more than 113 million Websites.

      4Apache Tomcat
      Apache Tomcat is an open-source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies

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      Tomcat helps power numerous large-scale, mission-critical Web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations such as ETrade, Wal-Mart, the Weather Channel and EMC.

      5Apache Lucene
      Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform. Originally cre

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      Apple Online Store, CNET, Netflix, Wikipedia, Yelp, Comcast, LinkedIn, The Smithsonian, several government agencies (FDA, DOD, etc.), Technorati, the Internet Archive as well as products such as AOL Yellow Pages for contextual searches.

      6Apache Struts
      Apache Struts is an open-source Web application framework for developing

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      IRS, Boston Globe, Amnesty International, Sears, Alamo Car Rental, National Car Rental, Travelocity and others.

      7Apache Geronimo
      The goal of the Geronimo project is to produce a server run-time framework that pulls together the best open-source alternatives to create run-times that meet the needs of developers and system administrators. The projects most po

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      AMD, Chariot Solutions, IBM, Virtuas and more.

      8Apache Ant
      Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool for automating software build processes. It is similar to

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      Most major Java applications designed to manage a massive flow of information have been built using Ant. The state of New York uses Apache Ant to manage the largest youth program in the United States, serving real-time updates to more than 250,000 student records on a daily basis.

      9Apache Cocoon
      Apache Cocoon is a Spring-based framework built around the concepts of separation of concerns and component-based development.

      Cocoon implements these concepts aro

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      Apache Lenya, Daisy CMS, Hippo CMS, Mindquarry and more. Commonly used as a data warehousing ETL (extract-transform-load) tool or as middleware for transporting data between systems.

      10Apache SpamAssassin
      SpamAssassin is an Apache project released under the Apache License 2.0 used for e-mail spam<

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      SpamAssassin has been used by thousands of individual developers and users, and has been the basis for several commercial products.

      11Apache Axis
      Apache Axis is an implementation of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) submission to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Axis is a follow-on to the Apache SOAP project.

      Users:

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      WSO2, MuleSource IBM, Progress Software.

      12Apache Logging Services

      The Apache Logging Services Project creates and maintains open-source software related to the logging of application behavior.

      The products of the Apache Logging Services Project included three logg

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      Apache Logging is ubiquitous in Java development.

      13Apache Commons
      The Commons is an Apache project focused on all aspects of reusable Java components.

      The Apache Commons project comprises three parts:
         •

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      Amazon Web Services, Google.

      1410 Apache Technologies that Will Change Computing in the Next 10 Years

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      15Apache Hadoop
      The Apache Hadoop project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. Hadoop enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. It was inspired by

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      Amazon A9, Adobe, NYTimes, Microsoft Bing, IBM, Hulu, Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Baidu (leading Chinese language search engine).

      16Apache CouchDB
      Apache CouchDB is a document-oriented database that can be queried and indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript. CouchDB also offers incremental replication with bidirectional conflict detection and resolution.

      Co

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      Amazon Web Services, IBM.

      17Apache Directory Server
      The Apache Directory Project provides directory solutions entirely written in Java. These include a directory server, which has been certified as Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) v3 compliant by the Open Group

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      Atlassian, IBM, Oracle, Polycom, Red Hat, Sun, several government applications and more.

      18Apache Maven
      Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a projects build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information.

      U

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      Sonatype.

      19Apache Jackrabbit
      Apache Jackrabbit is a fully conforming implementation of the Content Repository for Java Technology API. A content repository is a hierarchical content store with support for structured and unstructured content, full text searc

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      Magnolia CMS, Hippo CMS, Nuxeo, OpenKM and more.

      20Apache Harmony
      Apache Harmony is the Java SE project of the Apache Software Foundation . The aim of the project is to produce a large and healthy community of those interested in run-time platforms tasked with creation of

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      IBM, Eclipse and Google’s Android SDK, among others.

      21Apache ServiceMix
      Apache ServiceMix is an open-source ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) that combines the functionality of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and an event-driven architecture (

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      Go-to product for enterprise business integration, business process management (BPM), and Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) SOA infrastructure projects; used by Apache Geronimo, arctic.service.net, FUSE, Union Investment and more.

      22Apache MINA
      Apache MINA, the Multipurpose Infrastructure for Network Application, helps users develop high-performance and high-scalability network applications easily.

      Users:

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      Use case examples and proof of implementation can be found at http://mina.apache.org/testimonials.html.

      23Apache Roller
      Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java multiuser group blog server. Roller is a Java Web application that should be able to run on any Java EE server and any relational database. Currently, Roller is best supported on Tomcat and MyS

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      Apache Roller powers internal and external employee blogs at Sun, IBM and other companies as well as the JRoller.com Java blogging community.

      24Apache Sling
      Apache Sling is a Web framework that uses a Java Content Repository, such as Apache Jackrabbit, to store and manag

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      Idium (Norwegian Web hosting provider) and Sakai 3 (supports teaching, learning and research collaboration in higher education and commercial training affiliates). Also, the University of Cambridge UK, University of Oxford UK, Stanford, UC Berkley, UC Davis, University of Michigan, Indiana University (100,000 users), University of Cape Town, Charles Stuart University and other organizations.

      25ASF Highlights:

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      The globally distributed, all-volunteer membership has grown to exceed 300 individuals who represent some of the world’s greatest talent in open source. In collaboration with more than 2,000 committers from six continents, the ASF oversees the development of 65 leading open-source projects, including Apache HTTP Server—still the world’s most popular Web server software since its inception 15 years ago.

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