Live Software

Live Software was the original developer of JRun, before being acquired by Allaire Corporation in 1999.

History
Live Software was founded in 1995 by Paul Colton in San Diego. Their flagship product, JRun, was released in July 1997 and added functionality to web servers through a set of Java classes to allow them to run Java "servlets". The standards were adopted by the industry and became part of the J2EE specification. Live Software gave away JRun for free, but gained revenue from the servlets that ran on JRun.

Allaire Corporation announced the acquisition of Live Software on June 15, 1999. Macromedia absorbed Allaire through a merger that was completed on March 20, 2001. Adobe Systems then acquired Macromedia on December 3, 2005.