In my experience often found, big product companies do start with and idea, that would be their core functionality, as value add, they would rely on lot of open source projects .
A good list was captured by me off late.
http://www.slf4j.org/index.html
If you are a Apache project technologies lover, this is a nice starting point.
SOLR - search engine
LIFERAY - portal development
JODC - Office integration
are some of which I had a chance to read through and use it to an extent.
There are lots more. Do explore. Key is to integrate to the product suite.
A good list was captured by me off late.
http://www.slf4j.org/index.htmlIf you are a Apache project technologies lover, this is a nice starting point.
SOLR - search engine
LIFERAY - portal development
JODC - Office integration
are some of which I had a chance to read through and use it to an extent.
There are lots more. Do explore. Key is to integrate to the product suite.
