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TheJakarta Project created and maintainedopen source software for theJava platform. It operated as an umbrella project under the auspices of theApache Software Foundation, and all Jakarta products are released under theApache License. As of December 21, 2011 the Jakarta project was retired because no subprojects were remaining.
In 2018 Jakarta EE, a part of the Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J) project, became the new name for theJava EE platform at theEclipse Foundation.[1]
Major contributions by the Jakarta Project include tools,libraries andframeworks such as:
The following projects were formerly part of Jakarta, but now form independent projects within the Apache Software Foundation:
Jakarta is named after the conference room atSun Microsystems where the majority of discussions leading to the project's creation took place.[3] At the time, Sun's Java software division was headquartered in a Cupertino building where the conference room names were all coffee references.[unreliable source?]
