Apache Ant doesn't work on top of a shell like the aforementioned projects, but on top of Java itself. Ant can be used to allow administrators to manage various facets of their projects using a XML-based configuration file. This file can be used to store...
Apache Cassandra was initially built by Facebook for their own servers and services, using principles developed by Google and Amazon for BigTable and DynamoDB. Currently the project was donated to the Apache Foundation who continues to developed it...
Apache NiFi was created for distributed computing systems where data is processed on multiple servers before being sent to the user or to a storage container. While this might seem as a very complicated and time-consuming task, NiFi comes with a Web-based...
Apache jUDDI is a basic tool for building enterprise-ready Web services to use in your Java applications. The UDDI protocol itself is a XML-based markup language that sets up a series of protocols for describing and discovering data and other resources...
Apache Avro provides a way to serialize data using JSON schemas. These schema files are always present with the data, allowing developers to ship both the data and its structure to any application that may need it. Because of this data can be read and...
Axis2 is the successor to the widely used Apache Axis SOAP implementation. While the original Axis project worked with SOAP 1.0, Axis2 implements the newer SOAP 1.1 and 1.2 stacks. Besides support for the newer version of the protocol, core changes have...
Apache Libcloud was created to simplify the process of writing cloud-based services and applications. Libcloud offers a common API which developers can use to abstract their operations onto, and let the library's code handle all the differences between...
Apache Chukwa can be used to log the activity that happens into a complex Hadoop distributed computing system. Chukwa will help developers track down problems and solve bugs in the data processing applications, by providing a toolkit for not only...
Apache BVal, or Apache Bean Validation, is a Java toolkit that provides functions and methods that allow a developer to validate JavaBean data and see if they're compliant with the JSR303 standard. This standard, also known as the Bean Validation...
Apache Flink was developed to work with Apache Hadoop and comes with Java and Scala bindings. Flink is a powerful platform which allows you to manage server clusters and use them to process and analyze large quantities of data in an efficient and fast...
