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ASF Projects

The ASF develops, stewards, and incubates hundreds of freely available, enterprise-grade projects that serve as the backbone for the most visible and widely used applications in computing today.

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The Apache Incubator provides a path for projects and their communities that want to enter the ASF.

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Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

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XSLT processors in Java and C++

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scalable and extensible set of core foundational governance services

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Incubating Projects

The Apache Incubator is the primary entry path into The Apache Software Foundation for projects and their communities wishing to become part of the Foundation’s efforts. All code donations from external organisations and existing external projects seeking to join the Apache community enter through the Incubator.

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NLPCraft

A Java API for NLU applications

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Annotator

Annotator provides annotation enabling code for browsers, servers, and humans.

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Cloudberry

Cloudberry Database, built on the latest PostgreSQL kernel, is one of the most advanced and mature open-source MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) databases available.

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