The Apache foundation unveiled sponsorship program, in which companies and individuals can make monetary contributions to the foundation and in return receive benefits such as recognition on the Apache Web site. Several levels of sponsorship are featured.

Chariot Solutions (http://www.chariotsolutions.com/home/index.jsp) during the conference announced plug-ins and migration tools for the Apache Geronimo J2EE server. New Geronimo components include a Tomcat-to-Geronimo migration tool, a Java Persistence API (JPA) plug-in and a plug-in for JasperReports, which is an open source Java reporting tool.