The Apache Software Foundation

We consider ourselves not simply a group of projects sharing a server, but rather a community of developers and users.

The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects, which provide software products for the public good.

The Apache projects are defined by collaborative consensus based processes, an open, pragmatic software license and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field.

The ASF is made up of over 100 top level projects that cover a wide range of technologies. Chances are if you are looking for a rewarding experience in Open Source, you are going to find it here.

• Apache Tika

  The Apache Tika toolkit detects and extracts metadata and structured text content from various documents using existing parser libraries.

  The Apache Tika toolkit is an ASFv2 licensed open source tool for extracting information from digital documents. Tika allows search engines, content management systems and other applications that work with various kinds of digital documents to easily detect and extract metadata and content from all major file formats.

• Apache Accumulo

  The Apache Accumulo sorted, distributed key/value store is based on Google's BigTable design. It is built on top of Apache Hadoop, Zookeeper, and Thrift. It features a few novel improvements on the BigTable design in the form of cell-level access labels and a server-side programming mechanism that can modify key/value pairs at various points in the data management process.

• Apache Cocoon

  Web development framework: separation of concerns, component-based.

  Apache Cocoon is a web development framework built around the concepts of separation of concerns (making sure people can interact and collaborate on a project, without stepping on each other toes) and component-based web development. Cocoon implements these concepts around the notion of "component pipelines", each component on the pipeline specializing on a particular operation. This makes it possible to use a "building block" approach for web solutions, hooking together components into pipelines without any required programming.