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name="Libraries, Tools, and APIs"><strong>Libraries, Tools, and APIs</strong></a> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <a name="Ant"><strong>Ant</strong></a> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>Build tool, XML driven, OS independent (replaces make)</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Extensive online user manual and FAQ</li> <li><b>Version: </b>1.4.1</li> <li><b>News: </b>Latest entry: 15.Feb.02</li> </ul> </blockquote> </td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <a name="BCEL: Byte Code Engineering Library"><strong>BCEL: Byte Code Engineering Library</strong></a> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>Classes to analyze and modify the compiled bytecode (instead of the java source code).</p> <p>The Byte Code Engineering Library (formerly known as JavaClass) is intended to give users a convenient possibility to analyze, create, and manipulate (binary) Java class files (those ending with .class).</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Extensive online user manual</li> <li><b>Version: </b>???</li> <li><b>News: </b>Single entry: 27.Oct.01</li> </ul> </blockquote> </td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <a name="Commons"><strong>Commons</strong></a> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>Repository for small scale, reusable, code components that are useful in multiple Jakarta subprojects.</p> <p>Contains also a "Sandbox": A workspace for more experimental Java component development.</p> <ul>Components in the Commons Proper: <li><b>BeanUtils</b> <p>Easy to use wrapper around reflection and introspection</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Javadoc</li> <li><b>Version: </b>1.2</li> <li><b>News: </b>Single Entry: 24.Dec.01</li> </ul> </li> <li><b>Collections</b> <p>Additional collection classes for specal purposes:</p> <ul> <li>Special-purpose implementations of Lists and Maps for fast access</li> <li>Adapter classes from Java1-style containers (arrays, enumerations) to Java2-style collections.</li> <li>Methods to test or create typical set-theory properties of collections such as union, intersection, and closure.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Javadoc</li> <li><b>Version: </b>1.0</li> <li><b>News: </b>Single Entry: 14.Jul.01</li> </ul> </li> <li><b>Digester</b> <p>Digester provides a higher level, more developer-friendly interface to SAX events, because most of the details of navigating the XML element hierarchy are hidden -- allowing the developer to focus on the processing to be performed.</p> <p>Many Jakarta projects read XML configuration files to provide initialization of various Java objects within the system. There are several ways of doing this, and the Digester component was designed to provide a common implementation that can be used in many different projects.</p> <p>Basically, the Digester package lets you configure an XML -> Java object mapping module, which triggers certain actions called rules whenever a particular pattern of nested XML elements is recognized. A rich set of predefined rules is available for your use, or you can also create your own.</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Extensive introduction hidden in Javadoc</li> <li><b>Version: </b>1.1.1</li> <li><b>News: </b>Single Entry: 16.Oct.01</li> </ul> </li> <li><b>DBCP: Database Connection Pool Package</b> <p /> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>None</li> <li><b>Version: </b>1.5</li> <li><b>News: </b>None</li> <li><b>Misc: </b>No proper webpage, just CVS listing</li> </ul> </li> <li><b>HTTP Client</b> <p>The Jakarta Commons HTTP Client component provides an efficient, up-to-date, and feature-rich package implementing the client side of the most recent HTTP standards and recommendations.</p> <p>Designed for extension while providing robust support for the base HTTP protocol, the HTTP Client component may be of interest to anyone building HTTP-aware client applications such as web browsers, web service clients, or systems that leverage or extend the HTTP protocol for distributed communication.</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Overview, supported protocols, and Javadoc</li> <li><b>Version: </b>2.0 alpha 1</li> <li><b>News: </b>Last Entry: 05.Oct.01 - three entries total</li> </ul> </li> <li><b>JXPath</b> <p>Manipulating beans using the XPath syntax (?)</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>None</li> <li><b>Version: </b>1.3</li> <li><b>News: </b>None</li> <li><b>Misc: </b>No proper webpage, just CVS listing</li> </ul> </li> <li><b>Latka</b> <p>Latka is a functional (end-to-end) testing tool. It is implemented in Java, and uses an XML syntax to define a series of HTTP (or HTTPS) requests and a set of validations used to verify that the request was processed correctly.</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Overview, Javadoc, and XML syntax reference, documentation appears somewhat immature</li> <li><b>Version: </b>1.0 alpha 1</li> <li><b>News: </b>Single Entry: 13.Sep.01</li> </ul> </li> <li><b>Logging</b> <p>Simple wrapper API around multiple logging APIs</p> <p>The Logging package is an ultra-thin bridge between different logging libraries. Commons components may use the Logging API to remove compile-time and run-time dependencies on any particular logging package, and contributors may write Log implementations for the library of their choice.</p> <p><ul>Includes prebuilt support for the following: <li> Log4J from Apache's Jakarta project.</li> <li>JDK Logging API, included in JDK 1.4 or later systems.</li> <li>LogKit from Apache's Jakarta project.</li> <li>NoOpLog implementation that simply swallows all log output, for all named Log isntances</li> <li>SimpleLog implementation that writes all log output, for all named Log instances, to System.out.</li> </ul></p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Very good description in JavaDoc</li> <li><b>Version: </b>1.0</li> <li><b>News: </b>Single Entry: 20.Feb.02</li> </ul> </li> <li><b>Pool</b> <p>Generalized Object Pool Interface (?)</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>None</li> <li><b>Version: </b>1.5</li> <li><b>News: </b>None</li> <li><b>Misc: </b>No proper webpage, just CVS listing</li> </ul> </li> <li><b>Validator</b> <p>Framework to define input validators in XML (?)</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b></li> <li><b>Version: </b>1.6</li> <li><b>News: </b>None</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </blockquote> </td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <a name="ECS: Element Construction Set"><strong>ECS: Element Construction Set</strong></a> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>Java API to generate markup tags, rather than using println(). It directly supports HTML 4.0 and XML, but can easily be extended to create tags for any markup language.</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Very clear Example and Javadoc</li> <li><b>Version: </b>1.4.1</li> <li><b>News: </b>None</li> </ul> </blockquote> </td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <a name="JMeter"><strong>JMeter</strong></a> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>Pure Java desktop application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance.</p> <p>Can load and performance test HTTP and FTP servers as well as arbitrary database queries (via JDBC).</p> <p>Swing support to make a graphical analysis of performance or to test your server, script, object behavior under heavy concurrent load.</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Extensive online user and developers manual, but hard to find out how it works quickly.</li> <li><b>Version: </b>1.7beta</li> <li><b>News: </b>Good (no dates!)</li> </ul> </blockquote> </td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <a name="ORO: Regular Expression Library"><strong>ORO: Regular Expression Library</strong></a> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>The Jakarta-ORO Java classes are a set of text-processing Java classes that provide Perl5 compatible regular expressions, AWK-like regular expressions, glob expressions, and utility classes for performing substitutions, splits, filtering filenames, etc.</p> <p>This library is the successor to the OROMatcher, AwkTools, PerlTools, and TextTools libraries from ORO, Inc.</p> <p>Jakarta ORO package is possibly the more complete regular expression package than Jakarta Regexp.</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Javadoc only</li> <li><b>Version: </b>2.0.5</li> <li><b>News: </b>Last release: 17.Jan.02, five releases in 2001</li> </ul> </blockquote> </td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <a name="POI"><strong>POI</strong></a> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>APIs for manipulating OLE 2 file formats</p> <p>Set of APIs for creating, reading, and writing files based upon the OLE 2 Compound Document Format using only Java (no native stuff). OLE 2 Compound Document Format based files include most Microsoft Office files such as XLS and DOC.</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Great description and history</li> <li><b>Version: </b>1.1-dev</li> <li><b>News: </b>Single Entry: March 6 2002, but extensive project history.</li> </ul> </blockquote> </td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <a name="Regexp"><strong>Regexp</strong></a> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>Pure Java Regular Expression package</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Javadoc only</li> <li><b>Version: </b>1.3-dev</li> <li><b>News: </b>Good, (no dates)</li> </ul> </blockquote> </td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <a name="Taglibs"><strong>Taglibs</strong></a> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>A collection of JavaServer Pages (JSP) custom tag libraries useful in building web applications.</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Detailed descriptions of all subpackages, extensive online tutorial</li> <li><b>Version: </b></li> <li><b>News: </b>Great</li> </ul> </blockquote> </td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <a name="Watchdog"><strong>Watchdog</strong></a> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>Validation tests for the Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>None: no nothing</li> <li><b>Version: </b>None</li> <li><b>News: </b>None</li> </ul> </blockquote> </td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> </blockquote> </p> </td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <a name="Frameworks and Engines"><strong>Frameworks and Engines</strong></a> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <a name="Avalon"><strong>Avalon</strong></a> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>Component-oriented framework and set of components for appliction development.</p> <p>The main goal of this project is to design a way for different projects to share resources avoiding as much as possible efforts duplication.</p> <p>Extensive printable book</p> <li><b>Framework</b> <!-- No overview or list of features and functionalities --> <p>The Avalon framework consists of interfaces that define relationships between commonly used application components, best-of-practice pattern enforcements, and several lightweight convenience implementations of the generic components.</p> <p>At the core of the Avalon framework is the Component. A Component is defined as a passive entity that performs a specific role, in other words, a Component is acted upon (passive) and takes on a specific role in regards to being configurable, composable, intitializable, disposable, or stoppable.</p> <p>Components and interfaces are provided for: <ul> <li>Component management and composition</li> <li>Activity and role management (in the above sense)</li> <li>Configuration and parameter management</li> <li>Context management</li> <li>Loggin</li> <li>Threading</li> <li>Exception support</li> </ul> </p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Overview, UML package and class diagrams</li> <li><b>Version: </b>4.1.2</li> <li><b>News: </b>Last release: 31. Jan. 02 (6 releases in 2001)</li> </ul> </li> <li><b>LogKit</b> <p>LogKit is a logging toolkit designed for secure performance oriented logging in applications.</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Extensive online whitepaper and Javadoc</li> <li><b>Version: </b>1.0.1</li> <li><b>News: </b>Last Revision: 31.Jan.02 (typo!) six releases in 2001</li> </ul> </li> <li><b>Excalibur</b> <p>Collection of ready to use components and utilities</p> <p>Also provides a Scratchpad, for components under development</p> <p>The status of individual components is not always clear.</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Great short descriptions for individual components, Javadoc.</li> <li><b>Version: </b>4.1</li> <li><b>News: </b>Last Revision: 30.Jan.02 (5 entries for 2001)</li> </ul> <ul>Individual utilities for: <li>Command line parsing</li> <li>Collections</li> <li>Component Utils (?)</li> <li>Thread utils (mutexes, ...)</li> <li>Data Source Mgt (?)</li> <li>I18N</li> <li>IO Utils (File Filters and copying routines on Streams and Readers)</li> <li>LogKit Mgt (define the log categories on a component basis)</li> <li>Resource Monitoring (notification when a resource has changed)</li> <li>Pooling support (?)</li> <li>Property Utils (wildcard-like lookup of key-value pairs)</li> <li>Proxy (?)</li> </ul> </li> <li><b>Phoenix</b> <p>Minimal Application Server (manages classloader, security and logging needs)</p> <p>Purpose somewhat unlear, possibly still starting out.</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Very sketchy</li> <li><b>Version: </b>4.0a2</li> <li><b>News: </b>12.Nov.01, very few entries</li> </ul> </li> <li><b>Cornerstone</b> <p>Cornerstone is a set of services for the Phoenix kernel. It contains "blocks" that plug into Phoenix. Example blocks include ConnectionManager, SocketManager, Scheduler etc.</p> <p>Seems somewhat immature</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Some examples, Javadoc</li> <li><b>Version: </b>No official release yet</li> <li><b>News: </b>No dates</li> </ul> </li> </blockquote> </td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <a name="Cactus"><strong>Cactus</strong></a> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>Cactus is a simple test framework for unit testing server-side java code (Servlets, EJBs, Tag Libs, Filters, ...). </p> <p>It uses JUnit and extends it.</p> <p>It focusses on integration unit testing, but also supports code logic and functional unit testing.</p> <p>It provides testing for servlets (etc) within the actual servlet container, as opposed to testing them within a testing scaffold.</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Extensive tutorials and HowTos, but hard to find out how it works quickly.</li> <li><b>Version: </b>1.3</li> <li><b>News: </b>Last Entry: 10.Feb.02 (5 entries for 2001)</li> </ul> </blockquote> </td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <a name="Lucene"><strong>Lucene</strong></a> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>Large-scale text search (and indexing?) engine.</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Extensive FAQ, Tutorial, Links to offsite articles, Javadoc</li> <li><b>Version: </b>1.02</li> <li><b>News: </b>None</li> </ul> </blockquote> </td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <a name="Struts"><strong>Struts</strong></a> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>Model,View,Controller Framework for server side development.Struts uses a special Servlet as a switchboard to route requests from Web browsers to the appropriate Java ServerPage (JSP).</p> <p>Specifically designed for combining Servlets and JSPs, but works well with JDBC, EJB, JND, and Velocity.</p> <p>Provides support for mapping of form data to Java Beans.</p> <p>Relies on Custom Tags and JSP. Possibly plays better with other J2EE technologies than Turbine. Easier to retrofit to an existing project than Turbine.</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Very extensive: Several FAQs, User Guide, Developer Guide, but a simple "Hello world" example application appears to be missing.</li> <li><b>Version: </b>1.0.2</li> <li><b>News: </b></li> </ul> </blockquote> </td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <a name="Turbine"><strong>Turbine</strong></a> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>Servlet based MVC framework, but also provides functionality that may be of use outside of a web appliction.</p> <p>Built around "services": Singleton objects which may also have an init() and destroy() lifecycle. Many services come prepackaged (cf. entry below for Fulcrum).</p> <p>Possibly less J2EE conformant, more of an alternative!</p> <p><b>News: </b>Last Entry: 08.Mar.02 (monthly status reports for entire project)</p> <li><b>Turbine</b> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Extensive: Several Overview documents, HowTos, Javadoc. Apparently no worked "Hello world" example.</li> <li><b>Version: </b>2.2b1</li> <li><b>News: </b>None</li> </ul> </li> <li><b>Fulcrum</b> <p>Reusable services for use with Turbine.</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Short individual descriptions.</li> <li><b>Version: </b>None</li> <li><b>News: </b>None</li> </ul> <ul>Individual Services for: <li>Cache</li> <li>Factory</li> <li>Bean population from input (Intake)</li> <li>JSP</li> <li>Localization</li> <li>Mimetypes</li> <li>Naming (JNDI Wrapper)</li> <li>Pooling</li> <li>Scheduler</li> <li>Security</li> <li>Templates</li> <li>File uploads</li> <li>Velocity integration</li> <li>XML-RPC</li> <li>XSLT</li> </ul> </li> <li><b>Stratum</b> <p>Set of existing Turbine code and Fulcrum services, refactored as components, with the intent to move it into the Commons.</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Experiemental</li> <li><b>Version: </b>Apparently just starting out.</li> <li><b>News: </b>None</li> </ul> </li> <li><b>Torque</b> <p>Torque is a persistence layer. It generates all the database resources required from a single XML Schema document.</p> <p>The generation of your object model will produce Java source files that can be used to represent your database. These classes enable you to create, edit, delete, and select objects that represent rows in your database tables. Torque includes a runtime environment to run the generated classes. </p> <p>Torque uses a single XML database schema to generate the SQL for your target database and Torque's Peer-based object relation model representing your XML database schema. Additionally, an HTML document describing the database can be generated if you wish to make a browseable version of the database schema.</p> <p>Handling of DB relationships (Foreign Key relationships) in the mapping to Objects not quite clear.</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Extensive: Tutorial, User Guide, Developer Guide, Database integration Howtos</li> <li><b>Version: </b>None</li> <li><b>News: </b>None</li> </ul> </li> <li><b>Turbine Developer Kit (TDK)</b> <p>The Turbine Development Kit (TDK) is a package that bundles a copy of Turbine, Tomcat, jar files, documentation and other utilities in order to help you get started with Turbine as quickly as possible.</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Tutorial</li> <li><b>Version: </b>2.2b1</li> <li><b>News: </b>None</li> </ul> </li> </blockquote> </td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <a name="Velocity"><strong>Velocity</strong></a> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>Templating engine: replaces placeholders in document templates with dynamic content at runtime. The content is taken from application classes, which are placed into a VelocityContext at runtime.</p> <p>Templates can contain conditional statments and loop constructs for cases when the number of dynamic content entries is not known ahead of time.</p> <p>Can be used to generate HTML, but also about anything else (SQL, for instance).</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Extensive: Great printable user and Developers guide, very clear comparison with other projects.</li> <li><b>Version: </b>1.2</li> <li><b>News: </b>Last Release: 09.Dec.01 (11 Entries for 2001)</li> </ul> </blockquote> </td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> </blockquote> </p> </td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <a name="Server Applications"><strong>Server Applications</strong></a> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <a name="Alexandria"><strong>Alexandria</strong></a> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>CVS, Javadoc, Source code, Documentation management system, to allow you to browse multiple and remote source repositoriesGenerate Javadoc across multiple java projects.</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Sketchy</li> <li><b>Version: </b>None</li> <li><b>News: </b>None</li> </ul> </blockquote> </td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <a name="James"><strong>James</strong></a> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>Portable email server for all common formats.</p> <p>Design goals are portability, protocol abstraction, resource abstraction, mail transport and storage in single server.</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Uneven</li> <li><b>Version: </b>2.0a2</li> <li><b>News: </b>1.2.1 released 13. Dec. 00, 2.0a2 released 01. Dec. 01</li> </ul> </blockquote> </td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <a name="Jetspeed"><strong>Jetspeed</strong></a> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>Information Portal, making data available via the web or a WAP-enabled phone.</p> <p>Jetspeed is independent of content type. The actual presentation of the data is handled via XSL and delivered to the user for example via the combination of Java Server Pages (JSPs) and HTML.</p> <p>Jetspeed provides support for templating and content publication frameworks such as Cocoon, WebMacro and Velocity.</p> <p>Jetspeed is built on top of Turbine.</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Extensive, but unclear</li> <li><b>Version: </b>1.3a2</li> <li><b>News: </b>Last Entry: 2002/03/15 (confusing)</li> </ul> </blockquote> </td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <a name="Tomcat 3"><strong>Tomcat 3</strong></a> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>Official Reference Implementation of the Servlet 2.2 and JSP 1.1</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Extensive</li> <li><b>Version: </b>3.3</li> <li><b>News: </b>About bi-weekly updates</li> </ul> </blockquote> </td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <a name="Tomcat 4"><strong>Tomcat 4</strong></a> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>Official Reference Implementation of the Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2</p> <ul> <li><b>Documentation: </b>Extensive</li> <li><b>Version: </b>4.0.3</li> <li><b>News: </b>About bi-weekly updates</li> </ul> </blockquote> </td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> </blockquote> </p> </td></tr> <tr><td><br/></td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> <!-- FOOTER --> <tr><td colspan="2"> <hr noshade="" size="1"/> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> <div align="center"><font color="#525D76" size="-1"><em> Copyright © 1999-2002, Apache Software Foundation </em></font></div> </td></tr> </table> </body> </html> <!-- end the processing -->
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