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 nearly 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 Droids (incubating)

  An intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to create robots as plugins, which can automatically seeks out relevant online information based on the user's specifications.

  Apache Droids (incubating) aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to create robots as plugins, which can automatically seeks out relevant online information based on the user's specifications. Droids makes it very easy to extend existing robots or write a new one from scratch, which can automatically seek out relevant online information based on the user's specifications. Droids (plural) is not designed for a special usecase, it is a framework: Take what you need, do what you want.

• Apache Forrest

  Aggregated multi-channel documentation framework, separation of concerns.

  Apache Forrest™ software is a publishing framework that transforms input from various sources into a unified presentation in one or more output formats. The modular and extensible plug-in architecture of Apache Forrest is based on Apache Cocoon and the relevant industry standards that separate presentation from content. Forrest can generate static documents, or be used as a dynamic server, or be deployed by its automated facility.

• Apache FOP

  The Apache Foundation's XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) implementation.

  FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is the world's first print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO) and the world's first output independent formatter. It is a Java application that reads a formatting object (FO) tree and renders the resulting pages to a specified output. Output formats currently supported include PDF, PCL, PS, SVG, XML (area tree representation), Print, AWT, MIF and TXT. The primary output target is PDF.