The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open source software projects. The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus based development process, an open and pragmatic software license, and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field. We consider ourselves not simply a group of projects sharing a server, but rather a community of developers and users.

http://www.apache.org/

The aim of the project is to produce a large and healthy community of J2EE developers tasked with the development of an open-source, certified J2EE server that:

  • is licensed under the Apache License
  • passes Sun's TCK for J2EE 1.4
  • reuses the best ASF/BSD licensed code available today, with new ASF code to complete the J2EE stack.

http://geronimo.apache.org