The Apache Software Foundation Apache Incubator

Currently in incubation

Project Description Apache Sponsor Mentors Start Date
Ace A software distribution framework based on OSGi that allows you to manage and distribute artifacts. Incubator Niclas Hedhman, Carsten Ziegeler, Bertrand Delacretaz 2009-04-24
Aries The Aries project will deliver a set of pluggable Java components enabling an enterprise OSGi application programming model. Incubator Bertrand Delacretaz, Davanum Srinivas, Guillaume Nodet, Kevan Miller 2009-09-22
Bluesky Distance learning collaboration tool Incubator Bill Stoddard, J. Aaron Farr 2008-01-12
Cassandra Cassandra Incubator Ant Elder, Brian McCallister, Matthieu Riou 2009-01-01
Chemistry Chemistry Incubator Felix Meschberger, Gianugo Rabellino, Jukka Zitting 2009-04-30
Click Component based Java Web Framework Incubator Henning Schmiedehausen, Ted Husted, Will Glass-Husain, Andrus Adamchik 2008-07-21
Droids Droids HC, Lucene Ross Gardler, Paul Fremantle, Grant Ingersoll 2008-10-09
Empire-db Data persistence component. Incubator Henning Schmiedehausen, Thomas Fischer, Martijn Dashorst 2008-07-08
Etch A cross-platform, language- and transport-independent framework for building and consuming network services. Incubator Niclas Hedhman, Doug Cutting, Yonik Seeley 2008-09-02
ESME Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment (ESME) is a secure and highly scalable microsharing and micromessaging platform that allows people to discover and meet one another and get controlled access to other sources of information, all in a business process context. Incubator J. Aaron Farr, Bertrand Delacretaz, Daniel Kulp, Gianugo Rabellino, Sylvain Wallez 2008-12-02
Hama Hama Incubator Ian Holsman, Jeff Eastman, Brett Porter 2008-05-20
HISE HISE ODE Glen Daniels, Matthieu Riou, Paul Fremantle 2009-11-05
Imperius Rule-based Management Policy Engine Incubator Bill Stoddard, Craig Russell, Filip Hanik, Kevan Miller 2007-11-10
JSPWiki Java-based wiki engine Incubator Dave Johnson, Craig Russell, Henning Schmiedehausen, Sam Ruby 2007-09-17
Kato Kato is a project to develop the Specification, Reference Implementation, and TCK for JSR 326: the JVM Post-mortem Diagnostics API. Incubator Robert Burrell Donkin, Ant Elder, Geir Magnusson Jr. 2008-11-06
Libcloud libcloud is a standard client library for many popular cloud providers, written in python Incubator Paul Querna, Gavin McDonald, Jean-Frederic Clere, Ant Elder, Carlos Sanchez 2009-11-01
Log4php Logging for PHP. Logging Services Gavin McDonald, Niclas Hedhman, Jim Jagielski 2004-01-31
Lucene.Net Lucene.Net Lucene Erik Hatcher 2006-03-15
Olio Web 2.0 evaluation kit Incubator Craig Russell, Henning Schmiedehausen, Matt Hogstrom, Rick Hillegas 2008-09-29
OpenWebBeans JSR-299 Implementation Incubator Kevan Miller, Matthias Wessendorf 2008-10-26
PhotArk A Photo Gallery application, accessible via the web and written in Java Incubator Martin Cooper, Luciano Resende 2008-08-19
Pivot An open-source platform for building rich internet applications in Java. Incubator Niclas Hedhman, Martijn Dashorst 2009-01-26
RAT Comprehension and auditing for distributions and source code Incubator Yoav Shapira, Ross Gardler, Matt Hogstrom, Jim Jagielski 2008-01-06
River River : Jini technology Incubator Geir Magnusson Jr, Phil Steitz, Gianugo Rabellino 2006-12-26
Shindig The Shindig Project is an OpenSocial container. Incubator Thomas Dudziak, Brian Fitzpatrick, Santiago Gala, Brian McCallister, Greg Stein, Upayavira, Sylvain Wallez 2007-12-03
Shiro Security framework. Incubator Alan Cabrera, Paul Fremantle, Emmanuel Lecharny, Craig Russell 2008-05-20
SocialSite SocialSite is an OpenSocial-based headless social networking server and a set of OpenSocial Gadgets that make it easy to add social features to existing web sites. Server provides admin console for configuration, gadget approval and management. Gadgets can be combined to form complete UI for social networking with friending, group management and message support. Incubator Dave Johnson, Henning Schmiedehausen 2009-05-08
Stonehenge Stonehenge is a set of interoperability scenarios for Service Oriented Architecture and Web Services that demonstrate interoperability between multiple systems including Apache Axis2, WSF/PHP and Microsoft WCF. The code also demonstrates good practice for standards-based interoperability. Incubator Ken Coar, Danese Cooper, Matthieu Riou, Dan Kulp, Jim Jagielski, Paul Fremantle 2008-11-19
Subversion Subversion is an open-source version control system, with a long and detailed list of features. Incubator Justin Erenkrantz, Greg Stein, Sander Striker, Daniel Rall 2009-11-07
Tashi An infrastructure for cloud computing on big data. Incubator Matthieu Riou, Craig Russell, Paul Fremantle 2008-09-04
Thrift Cross-language serialization and RPC framework. Lucene Doug Cutting 2008-04-18
TrafficServer A scalable and extensible HTTP proxy server and cache. Incubator Doug Cutting, Jim Jagielski, Jean-Frederic Clere, Mladen Turk, Nick Kew 2009-07-13
UIMA Framework for analysing unstructured data. Incubator Ken Coar, Sam Ruby 2006-10-23
VCL Virtual Computing Lab. Framework for creating, dispensing and running virtual images. Incubator Alan Cabrera, Matt Hogstrom, Kevan Miller 2008-10-06
VXQuery A standards compliant XML Query processor. Incubator Paul Fremantle, Sanjiva Weerawarana, Radu Preotiuc-Pietro, Jochen Wiedmann 2009-07-06
Wookie a W3C widget engine with Google Wave and Open Social Extensions. Incubator Ross Gardler, Ate Douma, Gavin McDonald, Luciano Resende, Andrew Savory, Henning Schmiedehausen, Sylvain Wallez 2009-07-17
Wink Apache Wink is a project that enables development and consumption of REST style web services. The core server runtime is based on the JAX-RS (JSR 311) standard. The project also introduces a client runtime which can leverage certain components of the server-side runtime. Apache Wink will deliver component technology that can be easily integrated into a variety of environments. Incubator Davanum Srinivas, Kevan Miller, Steve Loughran 2009-05-27
WSRP4J Implementation of OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) Portals Portals PMC members 2003-09-03

Graduated from incubation

Project Description Apache Sponsor Mentors Started/Ended
Abdera An implementation of the Atom Syndication Format and Atom Publishing Protocol. Incubator Garrett Rooney, Paul Querna 2006-06-06/2008-11-08
ActiveMQ A robust and high performance Message Orientated Middleware provider which will be integrated into Apache Geronimo but also be usable from inside any JVM. Geronimo James Strachan 2005-12-01/2007-02-06
Apollo A robust implementation of the OASIS WS-ResourceFramework (WSRF) family of specifications Web Services Davanum Srinivas 2004-11-08/2005-06-03
Buildr Buildr is a simple and intuitive build system for Java projects written in Ruby. Incubator Jim Jagielski, Matthieu Riou, Yoav Shapira 2007-11-01/2009-02-23
Beehive Extensible Java application framework with an integrated metadata-driven programming model for web services, web applications, and resource access Incubator Craig McClanahan 2004-05-21/2005-07-18
Cayenne Robust Persistence DB Jean T. Anderson, Bill Dudney, Jim Jagielski, Brian McCallister 2006-03-09/2006-12-20
CouchDB CouchDB Incubator Ted Leung, Gianugo Rabellino, Jim Jagielski 2008-02-12/2008-11-19
CXF The CXF project will create a SOA services framework by merges the ObjectWeb Celtix project and the Codehaus XFire project. Incubator Jim Jagielski, James Strachan 2006-08-15/2008-04-16
Derby Java relational database DB Ken Coar 2004-08-15/2005-07
Directory Directory projects. Incubator Noel J. Bergman, Nicola Ken Barozzi 2003-10-23/2003-02-23
Felix Implementation of the OSGi R4 specification. Incubator Alex Karasulu 2005-07-19/2007-04-01
FtpServer A complete FTP Server based on Mina I/O system. Incubator Paul Hammant, Nicola Ken Barozzi, Niclas Hedhman 2003-03-29/2007-12-18
Geronimo J2EE Container Board Geir Magnusson Jr., James Strachan, Jim Jagielski 2003-08-06/2004-05-26
Harmony Compatible implementation of J2SE Incubator Geir Magnusson Jr, Noel Bergman, Ben Laurie, Stefano Mazzocchi, Sam Ruby, Leo Simons, Davanum Srinivas 2005-05-18/2006-10-29
Hermes A robust implementation of the OASIS WS-Notification (WSN) family of specifications Web Services Davanum Srinivas 2004-11-08/2005-06-03
httpd-CLI CLI integration project for httpd server HTTP Server Will Rowe 2004-07-15/2004-12-16
iBATIS The iBATIS Data Mapper framework makes it easier to use a database with Java or .NET applications. iBATIS couples objects with stored procedures or SQL statements using a XML descriptor. Incubator Ted Husted 2004-08-16/2005-04-27
Ivy A java based tool for tracking, resolving and managing project dependencies. Ant Antoine Levy-Lambert, Stephane Bailliez, Steve Loughran, Stefan Bodewig 2006-10-23/2007-10-11
Jackrabbit Content Repository API based on JSR 170 Incubator Roy T. Fielding 2004-08-28/2006-03-15
JaxMe Implementation of JAXB, the specification for Java/XML binding Web Services Davanum Srinivas 2003-9/2004-3
JDO JDO2 DB Geir Magnusson Jr. 2005-05-18 / 2005-12-09
jUDDI Implementation of a Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) registry Web Services Davanum Srinivas 2003-9/2004-3
Lenya Content Management and publishing system based on Cocoon Cocoon Steven Noels, Stefano Mazzocchi 2003-03/2004-08
log4cxx Logging for C++ Logging Services Ceki Gulcu 2004-01-31/2005-01-11
log4net Logging for .NET Logging Services Ceki Gülcü, Mark Womack, Curt Arnold 2004-1/2007-2
MerlinDeveloper Merlin eclipse plugin merged with an existing eclipse plugin already at avalon. Avalon Leo Simmons 2004-1/2004-1
mod_ftp FTP protocol module for Apache httpd 2.x HTTP Server Jim Jagielski 2005-08-06
Muse A robust implementation of the OASIS WSDM, Management using Web Services (MuWS) specification Web Services Davanum Srinivas 2004-11-08/2005-06-03
MyFaces MyFaces is a framework for building Java Server application GUIs based on JavaServer Faces (certified implementation of JSR-127). Incubator Ted Husted 2004-07-16/2005-03-09
Nutch Web search software. Incubator Doug Cutting 2005-01/2005-06
Ode Orchestration Director Engine Incubator Paul Fremantle, Niclas Hedhman, Davanum Srinivas 2006-2-17/2007-07-18
OFBiz The Open For Business Project (OFBiz) is an open source enterprise automation software project. Incubator David N. Welton, Yoav Shapira, J. Aaron Farr 2006-01-31/2006-12-20
OpenEJB OpenEJB EJB Server and Container Incubator Brett Porter, Jason van Zyl, Henri Yandell 2006-07-05/2007-05-16
OpenJPA OpenJPA is an open source implementation of the Java Persistence API Incubator Geir Magnusson Jr. 2006-04-10/2007-05-16
PDFBox PDF library (reading, text extraction, manipulation, viewer) Incubator Jukka Zitting, Jeremias Maerki 2008-02-07/2009-10-21
Pig Pig is a platform for analyzing large datasets. Incubator Doug Cutting, Torsten Curdt, Bertrand Delacretaz, Yoav Shapira Sylvain Wallez 2007-10-02/2008-10-22
Pluto JSR 168 Reference Implementation Jakarta Sam Ruby 2003-09-30/2004-05-15
Qpid Qpid provides multiple language implementations of the Advanced Messaged Queuing Protocol (AMQP) Incubator Cliff Schmidt, Craige Russel, Paul Fremantle, Scott Deboy, Yoav Shapira 2006-08-27/2008-12-18
Roller Roller blog server Incubator Sam Ruby, Henri Yandell 2005-06-20/2007-02-21
Sanselan The Sanselan Project is a pure-java image library for reading and writing a variety of image formats. Incubator Carsten Ziegeler, Craig Russell, Yoav Shapira, Jeremias Maerki 2007-09-09 / 2009-06-30
ServiceMix The ServiceMix project will create an ESB and component suite based on the Java Business Interface (JBI) standard - JSR 208. Geronimo James Strachan 2005-12-01/2007-09-19
Solr Full Text Search Server Lucene Doug Cutting, Erik Hatcher 2006-01-17 / 2007-01-17
Sling Sling is a framework to develop content centric web applications based on the idea of modularizing the rendering of HTTP resources. Board Jukka Zitting, Gianugo Rabellino, J. Aaron Farr 2007-09-09 / 2009-06-17
SpamAssassin Mail filter to identify spam. Board Sander Striker 2003-12-20/2004-6-23
stdcxx The Apache C++ Standard Library project is a complete implementation of the ISO/IEC 14882 C++ Standard Library. Incubator Justin Erenkrantz, Ben Laurie, William A. Rowe, Jr. 2005-05-19/2007-11-14
Synapse Web Services Mediation Framework Web Services Glen Daniels, Sanjiva Weerawarana, Davanum Srinivas 2005-08-22 / 2007-01-02
Tapestry Alternative framework to JSP and Velocity scripting environments Jakarta Andrew C. Oliver, dIon Gillard 2003-04-01/2003-05-29
Tika Content analysis toolkit Lucene Doug Cutting, Bertrand Delacretaz, Jukka Zitting 2007-03-22 / 2008-10-28
Tobago A JSF based framework for web-applications. MyFaces Ted Husted 2005-10-27/2006-03-23
Trinidad JSF Component Library MyFaces Craig R. McClanahan 2006-03-08 / 2007-04-22
Tuscany Service Component Architecture implementation Web Services Davanum Srinivas, Sam Ruby 2005-12-07 / 2008-05-21
WebWork 2 A Java web-application development framework Struts Don Brown, Martin Cooper, Ted Husted 2006-01/2006-05
Wicket A web application framework that focusses on bringing plain object oriented Java programming to the web tier Incubator Upayavira, Alex Karasulu, Sylvain Wallez, Bertrand Delacretaz 2006-08-28/2007-06-20
Woden Implementation of WSDL 2.0 Web Services Paul Fremantle, Sanjiva Weerawarana, Davanum Srinivas 2005-03-24/2007-12-08
XMLBeans XML-Java binding tool with 100% support for XML Schema and full Infoset fidelity XML Ted Leung 2003-07-30/2004-6-23

Dormant Projects

Project Description Apache Sponsor Mentors Started/Ended
JuiCE OpenSSL based JCE provider. Project going into dormant status after lack of community interest. XML Berin Lautenbach 2004-04-05/2007-10-18
TripleSoup SPARQL endpoint for your webserver. Project entering dormant status after failing to get traction. Incubator Leo Simons, Stefano Mazzocchi, Ben Hyde, Dirk-Willem van Gulik 2007-02-05/2007-10-18

Retired from incubation

Project Description Apache Sponsor Mentors Started/Ended
Agila Extensible Business Process Management (BPM) engine core. Project activity transferred to another Incubator project - ODE. Jakarta Geir Magnusson Jr. 2004-09-29/2006-12-05
AltRMI A transparent Remote Procedure Call bean. Development stalled and the project activity transferred to JRemoting. Incubator Paul Hammant 2003-02-13/2007-01-18
Axion Relational database engine written in Java. Project remains at Axion Tigris.org. DB Morgan Delegrange 2003-12-19/2006-01-23
Composer Embeddable IoC container Incubator Jason Van Zyl, Peter Royal 2008-05-13
Depot Integrated tools for automating downloading, publishing and managing software artifacts, along with tools for manipulating their metadata. Project closed after development stalled. Incubator Nicola Ken Barozzi 2003-12-04/2004-10-28
Graffito Portal oriented Content Management System Portals Raphael Luta 2004-09-20/2007-07-11
Heraldry Identity for the rest of us. Project retired. Some activity moved to OpenID.net. Incubator Ben Laurie, Paul Querna, Ted Leung, J. Aaron Farr, William Rowe 2005-07-14 / 2007-06-09
Kabuki An AJAX toolkit Incubator Andy Clark, Paul Fremantle, Sam Ruby, and Sanjiva Weerawarana 2006-01-26/2006-06-24
Lokahi The Lokahi project will create a management console for Apache HTTP Server and Apache Tomcat projects on a framework extensible to other ASF projects. Retired due to inactivity. Some talk of moving parts of the codebase to Tomcat. Incubator Will Rowe, Yoav Shapira 2006-03-01/2009-08-16
Lucene4c Lucene for C. Progress stalled as developers ran out of free time and motivation Lucene Erik Hatcher 2005-02-21/2006-10-15
NMaven .NET integration for Maven. Failed to build active community. Efforts moved to NMaven @ Codeplex, NPanday @ Codeplex, and Byldan @ Codeplex. Maven Brett Porter, Jason van Zyl 2006-11-17/2008-11-13
RCF JSF Component Library MyFaces Martin van den Bemt, Henning Schmiedehausen, Carsten Ziegeler 2007-04-06
TSIK Failed to gather community momentum. Cancelled at request of Sponsoring TLP. Web Services Davanum Srinivas, Sam Ruby, Dirk-Willem Gulik 2005-05-17/2006-03-21
wadi a robust hetorgeneous clustering engine used to cluster geronimo, tomcat, jetty and other containers eventually Geronimo Geir Magnusson, James Strachan 2005-12-05
XAP Declarative framework for building Ajax-powered web apps Incubator Cliff Schmidt, Robert Burrell Donkin, Susan Wu 2006-05-22/2009-06-26
Yoko A CORBA Server. Geronimo Ken Coar, Geir Magnusson Jr., James Strachan 2006-1-31 / 2007-12-17