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            An intelligent standalone robot framework
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             2011-02-09
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Welcome to Apache Droids

  Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework. Droids makes
  it very easy to extend existing robots or write a new one from scratch, which
  can automatically seek out relevant online information based on the user's
  specifications. Droids is not designed for a special usecase, it is a framework:
  Take what you need, do what you want.

Why was it created?

  The background of this work is that Cocoon trunk does not provide a crawler
  anymore and Forrest is based on it, meaning we cannot update anymore till we
  found a crawler replacement. Getting more involved in Solr and Nutch we saw
  request for a generic standalone crawler.

How to get involved

* Source code

  Get the latest version of the {{{source-repository.html}source code}} and
  start playing with Droids.

* Mailing-List

  Subscribe to the {{{mail-lists.html}mailing list}} by sending an email at.
  Ask questions and responds when you know the answer.

* Documentation

  Publish examples on the {{{https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DROIDS/Index}wiki}}
  or on your blog and notify the community. Droids has currently a huge need
  in documentation.

* Issue tracker

  Use {{{issue-tracking.html}jira}} to describe the bugs
  and problems you encountered with Droids. Propose improvements or, even better,
  submit patches.