Resources / Projects

The following are some of the resources or OSS projects that I have been using as of late or investigating. You will see the trend lately is being a true ASF sponsor!

Apache Software Foundation (ASF)

  • HTTP Server — The only real web server!
  • Ant or Maven — Java build software, both have their own pros/cons.
  • Tomcat — One of three servlet engine I use on a regular basis.
  • Cayenne — ORM with power and hopefully a good direction now under the ASF umbrella.
  • Wicket — Just an awesome Java event-driven web framework.
  • Derby — Need a db for testing, have used it numerous times with such ease.

Other Servlet and/or Web Containers

  • Jetty 6.0 — THE best servlet engine out there that works great for your Wicket deployments.
  • Resin — Extremely fast servlet engine, that is now more than just a servlet container.

Databases

  • Oracle 10g Express — Great if you have to do dev against Oracle, but don’t need 10 dba’s to help get you going.
  • MySQL — THE most popular web db. Web development without MySQL is just wrong somewhere.

If you think you have to pay 5 or 6 figures for enterprise software to get quality software, you are missing the boat!

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