The Goldfish Chronicles

So what communities are there out there for open sourced Java?

There’s the loose sourceforge, which I don’t think even really counts but I wanted to get on paper right away.

Then there’s Jakarta, the Apache based heavyweight. Is it fat or muscle though?
There’s ObjectWeb, centered around France Telecom and a lot of French individuals. Some very interesting middleware projects that people probably don’t consider often enough.
There’s Tigris, who provide a lot of Java projects, but are chiefly a vertical community dealing with development tools.
There’s GNU of course, who have a Java section, but seem to not be at the centre of open-sourced Java.
There’s IBM alphaWorks and Sun, who both have Java communities, though IBMs is closed to IBM employees only and Sun’s is possibly also company focused.

What else is there? New groups like CodeHaus. Who else of size?

Mainly I’m looking for a list of providers that one would check when looking for server-side Java code, of any type. Not really the J2ME market or Applets, but pretty much anything else.

To count, a community needs to have more than one project and have an appearance of size, so osjava may not count as there’s only four of us.

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