Social Source Commons

Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like Make, without Make's wrinkles and with the full portability of pure Java code.

According to Ant's original author, James Duncan Davidson, the name is an acronym for "Another Neat Tool".

Later explanations go along the lines of "ants do an extremely good job at building things", or "ants are very small and can carry a weight dozens of times their own" - describing what Ant is intended to be.

Building cross platform apps (like the VaultletSuite 2 Go) with Java requires an easy to use automation tool. Ant fits the bill for me!

Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs, hit highlighting, faceted search, caching, replication, a web administration interface and many more features. It runs in a Java servlet container such as Tomcat.

Here at the Bouncy Castle, we believe in encryption. That's something that's near and dear to our hearts. We believe so strongly in encryption, that we've gone to the effort to provide some for everybody.

Network Data Integration, Analysis, and Visualization in a Box

Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software.

Freemail is an email-like messaging system that transports all messages over Freenet 0.7 in order to achieve anonymity and censorship-resillience

Freenet is a decentralized censorship-resistant peer-to-peer distributed data store

Mobile health platform built on top of FrontlineSMS.

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language.

Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

Java based text editor, with syntax highliting and other great features

JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages.

Java-based Internet mapping server for deployment of mapping applications.

World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there.

Nutch is an open source search engine based on Lucene Java that can be used to index internal or public web documents.

OpenMRS is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework intended to aid resource-constrained healthcare environments.

Prototype is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.

JSP servlet container (web application server for JSP)

VaultletSuite 2 Go is privacy protecting software that installs on your hard drive or your thumb/USB drive. It uses Open Source 2048 bit RSA public key and 256 AES encryption, and provides easy-to-use (transparent) encrypted and controllable email and password protects important files.

A Wiki supporting skins, APIs, RSS feeds, PDFs developed in Java.