Building a forever home for open source projects

We are a non-profit organization dedicated to the sustainability of open source libraries and frameworks.

Build with us

We want projects to succeed on their own terms

At the Commonhaus Foundation (CF), we're committed to creating a collaborative environment that nurtures the growth and sustainability of projects and their communities.

Our guiding principles are straightforward yet impactful:

  • Honor project and community identity
  • Offer guidance and support instead of imposing mandates
  • Maintain transparency in all of our actions
  • Encourage long-term thinking for sustained project impact

What sets Commonhaus apart

Inspired by the legacy of Codehaus, the Commonhaus Foundation offers a balanced approach to governance and support, designed for the unique needs of established open source projects.

Stable, long-term home

We acknowledge the evolving nature of projects. By providing a neutral home, we offer an anchor supporting growth over time. We're committed to ensuring smooth transitions and fostering long-term project health with thoughtful succession planning.

Minimum viable governance

Adhering to a "community-first" model, we offer support that respects project autonomy, ensuring governance is effective without being restrictive.

Streamlined access to funding

As a fiscal host with connections to platforms like GitHub Sponsors and OpenCollective, we simplify the process of securing funding, providing your project with the resources it needs for sustainability and growth.


Our Projects

Debezium

Debezium is an open-source distributed platform designed for Change Data Capture (CDC), providing applications with an industry-standard way to respond to real-time database changes.

EasyMock

EasyMock, makes mocking easier since 2001.

Feign

Feign is a Java to HTTP client binder inspired by Retrofit, JAXRS-2.0, and WebSocket. Feign's first goal was reducing the complexity of binding Denominator uniformly to HTTP APIs regardless of ReSTfulness.

Hibernate

The Hibernate projects offer a suite of powerful Java libraries to work with data. It is best known for Hibernate ORM, which provides relational persistence for Java models and is an implementation of the Jakarta Persistence specification.

Infinispan

Infinispan is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available in-memory database that can hold nearly any type of data, from plain-text to structured objects. It can be used either embedded or in client/server mode, accessed using either a native, high-performance protocol, or any HTTP, Redis or Memcached clients. Data can be queried via full-text and vector search capabilities.

Jackson

The go-to library for JSON processing in Java. Jackson offers fast and flexible parsing/generation of JSON for Java applications, enabling seamless data interchange.

JBang

Unlock Java's scripting potential. JBang makes it easy to run Java applications as scripts without the need for a project setup or build configuration. Ideal for quick experiments, prototypes, or utility scripts.

JReleaser

Automate your Java project releases with ease. JReleaser streamlines packaging and distribution to multiple platforms, integrating with Maven, Gradle, and more. Simplify your release process, from changelogs to deployment.

Morphia

Bridge the gap between Java and MongoDB. Morphia provides a lightweight type-safe mapping library to simplify working with MongoDB documents using Java.

Objenesis

Objenesis is a small Java library that serves one purpose: To instantiate a new object of a particular class WITHOUT calling one of its constructors.

Quarkus

Quarkus is a Kubernetes Native Java stack tailored for OpenJDK HotSpot and GraalVM, crafted from the best of breed Java libraries and standards.

SDKMAN!

SDKMAN! is a robust tool designed for managing parallel versions of multiple Software Development Kits (SDKs) on Unix-based systems. An intuitive command-line interface simplifies the installation, updating, and switching of executables for various SDKs, including Java, Kotlin, Scala, and Groovy.

SlateDB

SlateDB is a cloud native embedded log-structured merge tree (LSM) storage engine built on object storage.