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Beehive is an Official Apache Project as of Today

Posted by michael on from the buzz-buzz dept.

jg21 writes "BEA's senior product manager, Carl Sjogren, just announced at on the keynote podium at eWorld in San Francisco that Beehive, BEA's open-source project announced last week, is today officially accepted by the Apache Software Foundation as an Apache project. So what used to be WebLogic Workshop is truly now no longer proprietary. CA is busy trying to follow suit. There's no confirmation yet on the ASF site, but deploying Beehive on Tomcat is the next aim, followed by ports to whatever other containers folks can devise." Here's the press release.

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  1. Beehive Overview for the Impatient: by osewa77 · · Score: 4, Informative
    From the official beehive website:
    Beehive is an open-source software project designed to deliver a cross-container, ease-of-use programming model and application framework for J2EE- and SOA-based applications. Beehive includes support for JSR 175 metadata annotations, the Java controls framework for creating and consuming J2EE components, a simplified Web services programming framework, and the Struts-based Java Page Flow technology for creating Web-based user interfaces and applications.
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  2. Because... by Moth7 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Apache is an entire software foundation with many widely used Free apps. MySQL is just a single app (ok, preempting the smart alecs, this includes server/client/etc).

  3. Re:any reasons to be excited? by LoveMe2Times · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, I've downloaded their freebie developer studio (note: I don't know what's different in the for-pay IDE). My company is currently trying to choose between ASP.Net and Java for our next website revision, so I'm looking into these things. As far as I can tell, this is some non-standard extension to Struts, and with the rest of the industry moving to JSF, I don't know if it's got a future or not. However, JSF is currently, uhh, beta shall we say (Sun's IDE is beta and acts like it). Even though I just got it, it seems as though BEA's stuff is a little more battle hardened. But as I've discovered just trying to port a simple test app from Sun's JS Creator to Netbeans/Tomcat, it's littered with non-standard extensions too. ARGH!

  4. Re:any reasons to be excited? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    The stock price dropped because they failed to meet expected revenue for last quarter.

    I've also worked professionally in Java for as long as there has been a professional market. I've been working with the BEA platform (WLS/Workshop/WLI/Portal) at my current consulting gig for the last 6+ months and I have to say that I have found it to be a difficult platform and nothing worth getting excited about, especially given the choices of mature alternative Java technologies available, Open Source or otherwise. At best I think the platform is sufficient for creating simple web applications and web services, but creating larger infrastructures has proven difficult and overly time consuming.

    I'll be curious to see how these technologies do as an open source initiative. I personally don't feel there is any compelling innovation here. The BEA party line is that they are pushing the envelope in J2EE with the 8.1 Weblogic Platform. However, I find that these technologies seem to be a little self serving (Workshop integration for example), and provide nothing new of interest, to me at least.

    I believe Behive is the result of growing critiism that these proprietary technologies create vendor-lockin. If Behive is not adopted and embraced by other major vendors then this situation doesn't change.