what is the biggest 3 Jakarta Projects out there?

Just personal interest, care to share you opinion?
Top 3 or 5 or , the most well know. What is going to be big later in the future? etc etc etc..

Hi John,
Judging from this thread, people mentioned Struts and ant most times. The third position might be log4j or cactus.

How about Tomcat?

whole effort of jakarta projects was to start effort to develope servlet & jsp engine. so , sun has licensed its technology to jaakarta group & tomcat was born.
i think it is the most biggest project after apache server.
now , development of struts , velocity , cactus , ant & turbine etc. can be considered as the other important project. i think the kind of facilities provided by all these projects to the developer community is more important than size. plus , it is open source developement.
I hope this helps.
Shailesh.

Thanks guys.

Looking at the mailing lists/magazine articles I would rate the big 3 as
1.Tomcat.
2.Struts.
3.Ant.
Log4j also seems to have a lot of suuport.
I guess the Jakarta Taglibs will gain a lot of visibility since it will be the reference implementation to JCP 53(?? is that the right one?).
One good thing about the jakarta community has been the fact that all the projects share a lot of commmon code and packages. I would recomend you lookup the jakarta-commons project. It will save you a lot of time/development time on your project.

1) Ant!! (Automated builds == Two Thumbs up!!)
2) Catcus (Combined with JUnit and Ant for automated testing)
3) Struts and Tomcat
Log4j is also very popular, as is Lucene.
/rick

The question with log4j is how will it affected by the logging facility built into 1.4.

From what I've been hearing lately, a lot of people are still looking to log4j over the logging API in JDK 1.4. I haven't used the new logging API yet, but its supposedly not as robust as log4j. Besides, not a lot of people upgrade to the newest JDK right away, so I think it will still have a place for a while.
Also, heard some rumors that Apache is trying to work with Sun on implementing most of the features of log4j. I could be wrong, but some of the ideas in the new logging API came from log4j.
/rick

I guess Xerces isn't stricly speaking Jakarta, but it's damn cool. Yesterday I downloaded and set up the Torque object-relational mapping tool (currently being separated from Turbine). I think as soon as it gets removed from the Turbine project page and given it's own cvs space, it'll be real popular -- it seems real nice.