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-jon
JavaWorld proudly announces the winners of its 1999 Readers' Choice Awards
<http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/rcawards99/jw-0320-rca_p.html>
Best free product
Winner: The Apache Software Foundation JServ
The original Apache project produced the Apache Web server in 1995. Since
then the project has expanded into numerous sister projects, including the
1999 JavaWorld Readers' Choice Award's Best Free Product: the Java Apache
Project's JServ servlet engine, designed to add Java servlet support to
the Apache Web server.
As you would expect from the best free product, the Java Apache Project
makes the JServ source code free and open. According to Jon Stevens, a
Java Apache Project active developer, JServ's open source license
represents one of the servlet engine's most compelling features. "Open
source is one of the best ways to come up with a stable, reliable
product."
Any successful open source project requires time, effort, and passion from
a group of dedicated developers. For JServ, Stevens reports that about 15
active developers worked on the product, with at least 50 additional
developers contributing code, documentation, and/or advice. (See Resources
for a link to the Java Apache Project's credits page.)
JServ's most important improvement in 1999? Speed, says Stevens. In 1999,
JServ's active developers drastically improved the protocol JServ uses to
communicate with the JVM, granting JServ 1.1 an impressive 200 percent
performance boost over version 1.0. And, best of all, any Java developer
can see how the JServ team accomplished this feat by downloading the
source code.
What's in store for JServ in 2000? JServ will be succeeded by the Jakarta
Project's Tomcat initiative, announced by Sun at last year's JavaOne
conference.
When asked what the Java Apache Project would do now that it won
JavaWorld's 1999 Readers' Choice Award for best free product, Stevens
laughs and says, "ApacheCon was just in Orlando, home of Disney World."
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