<s>
CJAN	B-Language
is	O
an	O
acronym	O
standing	O
for	O
Comprehensive	B-Language
Java	I-Language
Archive	I-Language
Network	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
CJAN	B-Language
as	O
a	O
concept	O
is	O
an	O
extension	O
of	O
CPAN	B-Language
,	O
the	O
Comprehensive	B-Language
Perl	I-Language
Archive	I-Language
Network	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2004	O
the	O
CJAN	B-Language
project	O
has	O
ceased	O
development	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Apache	O
CJAN	B-Language
was	O
an	O
attempt	O
at	O
a	O
simple	O
web	O
service	O
for	O
serving	O
Java	O
Jar	O
files	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Started	O
in	O
November	O
2001	O
by	O
Brian	O
Tol	O
,	O
CJAN.org	O
set	O
out	O
to	O
become	O
for	O
the	O
Java	O
community	O
what	O
CPAN	B-Language
represented	O
to	O
the	O
Perl	O
community	O
–	O
a	O
comprehensive	O
archive	O
of	O
reusable	O
components	O
for	O
their	O
respective	O
programming	O
languages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Two	O
key	O
differences	O
between	O
CPAN	B-Language
and	O
CJAN	B-Language
were	O
that	O
Java	O
uses	O
modules	O
known	O
as	O
Jar	O
files	O
and	O
that	O
CJAN	B-Language
was	O
to	O
use	O
a	O
distributed	O
network	O
topology	O
(	O
the	O
later	O
would	O
ensure	O
that	O
CJAN	B-Language
would	O
scale	O
well	O
with	O
increased	O
numbers	O
of	O
users	O
and	O
keep	O
server	O
hosting	O
costs	O
to	O
an	O
absolute	O
minimum	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
decision	O
was	O
taken	O
to	O
code	O
CJAN	B-Language
from	O
scratch	O
in	O
Java	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
CJAN.org	O
was	O
managed	O
as	O
an	O
Open	O
Source	O
project	O
,	O
a	O
hobby	O
they	O
worked	O
on	O
in	O
their	O
spare	O
time	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Progress	O
was	O
slow	O
,	O
in	O
part	O
because	O
some	O
of	O
the	O
basic	O
building	O
blocks	O
needed	O
to	O
implement	O
CJAN	B-Language
simply	O
did	O
n't	O
exist	O
in	O
open-source	O
form	O
in	O
Java	O
at	O
that	O
time	O
so	O
the	O
developers	O
were	O
spending	O
time	O
creating	O
the	O
components	O
and	O
then	O
trying	O
to	O
persuade	O
the	O
appropriate	O
developer	O
community	O
to	O
adopt	O
the	O
component	O
and	O
take	O
over	O
its	O
management	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
CJAN	B-Language
was	O
attempting	O
to	O
use	O
the	O
JXTA	B-Language
framework	O
when	O
it	O
was	O
in	O
its	O
infancy	O
and	O
only	O
offered	O
very	O
fine-grained	O
,	O
low-level	O
control	O
of	O
the	O
framework	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Sun	O
Microsystems	O
became	O
interested	O
in	O
CJAN	B-Language
at	O
the	O
beginning	O
of	O
2003	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
11	O
June	O
2003	O
the	O
Java.net	B-Application
community	O
and	O
website	O
was	O
launched	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ostensibly	O
,	O
CJAN.org	O
failed	O
because	O
it	O
was	O
too	O
ambitious	O
–	O
trying	O
to	O
build	O
an	O
open-source	O
project	O
on	O
leading-edge	O
technology	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
final	O
straw	O
for	O
the	O
open-source	O
project	O
was	O
the	O
launch	O
of	O
the	O
high-profile	O
Java.Net	B-Application
website	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Although	O
to	O
this	O
day	O
Java.Net	B-Application
does	O
not	O
offer	O
a	O
catalogue	O
of	O
reusable	O
components	O
,	O
it	O
has	O
a	O
huge	O
community	O
and	O
the	O
website	O
features	O
are	O
good	O
enough	O
for	O
most	O
Java	O
developers	O
most	O
of	O
the	O
time	O
that	O
developers	O
rarely	O
cite	O
the	O
need	O
for	O
such	O
.	O
</s>
