Re:Ask HN: Why are Apache projects so Java-centric?
by coldtea on Monday March 23, 2015 @04:37AM
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What's "at Apache"?
Apache is not a company, it's a foundation, non profit style, founded around the Apache Web Server at first but adding lots of project under the Apache licence. Some where donated to it by commercial companies, others started there.
One of the major sub-projects of the Apache Foundation was a Java based server, called Tomcat, started when Java and Servlets were all the rage, more than a decade ago (1999-2000). It was based on code donated by SUN, and grew very popular fast.
From that, and under the "Jakarta" umbrella, it grew lots of other Java related projects, and this attracted new Java projects in turn.
Apache is not a company, it's a foundation, non profit style, founded around the Apache Web Server at first but adding lots of project under the Apache licence. Some where donated to it by commercial companies, others started there.
One of the major sub-projects of the Apache Foundation was a Java based server, called Tomcat, started when Java and Servlets were all the rage, more than a decade ago (1999-2000). It was based on code donated by SUN, and grew very popular fast.
From that, and under the "Jakarta" umbrella, it grew lots of other Java related projects, and this attracted new Java projects in turn.