ORO, Inc. was a software development company that focused on providing high quality object-oriented class libraries and toolkits for software developers in the very early days of Java. During ORO's lifetime, thousands of Java developers adopted its Java libraries for use in both commercial and in-house projects, and some of the largest computer companies in the world licensed the software. As a result, there still exists a good deal of software that depends on old ORO class libraries. This ORO software archive is provided purely to help you get software to work that depends on the libraries. The software is completely unsupported and support inquiries will go unanswered. However, the original licensing terms still apply.
NetComponents Status. NetComponents is currently available under the Apache License as Apache Commons Net. Support questions should be directed to the Apache Commons user and dev mailing lists. Folks like Rory Winston, Steve Cohen, and Jeffrey Brekke have taken the lead in developing the software. These days, I merely apply patches here and there.
OROMatcher and the rest. In June, 2000, OROMatcher 2.0, PerlTools 2.0, and the rest of the ORO text processing software (AwkTools and TextTools) were donated to the Apache Jakarta Project, which took over custodianship of the software, housing CVS repository, mailing lists, and release archives. The software is now Jakarta ORO and is licensed under the Apache License, which is a BSD-style license that allows projects such as Jython to continue to use the software without special licensing. Support questions should be directed to the Jakarta oro-user and oro-dev mailing lists.
NetComponents users should upgrade to Apache Commons Net. OROMatcher, PerlTools, TextTools, and AwkTools users should upgrade to Apache Jakarta ORO. Support questions for Apache Commons Net should be directed to the Apache Commons user and dev mailing lists. Support questions for Apache Jakarta ORO should be directed to the oro-user and oro-dev mailing lists.
