Beehive is an Official Apache Project as of Today

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.

Comments

any reasons to be excited?

[mikeburke]

Interesting note in the article: BEA's stock price recently tanked 23%. Anyone know why?

Anyway, I will freely admit I've not looked into this any more than the press release (and even then I skipped most of the vowels). I've been developing professionally in Java for 7 years now, and in all that time I have managed to avoid using any product from BEA.

Is there anyone out there who has used this stuff in its proprietary guise, who could compare it to the plethora of other frameworks out there?

Is the whole thing going to become redundant when J2EE 1.5 emerges? Is there any reason to spend any energy looking at it whatsoever? Sorry for so many questions?

Re:any reasons to be excited?

[C0deM0nkey]

that I have found it to be a difficult platform and nothing worth getting excited about Except that this is what many in the commercial world are using.

Recently, I've considered switching from my government contractor position and I've been looking through a lot of the available positions in my local area (Omaha, Nebraska).

The application server of choice for Java-based development (J2EE) seems to be WebLogic 8.1 (especially paired with knowledge of the Struts application framework).

I, too, have found WebLogic to be uninspiring...but employers seem to want it. Of particular note, what they seem to be after is people who have "performance and tuning" experience.

In the short time I've been working with WL, this has been its most frustrating aspect: you seem to have to do a LOT of configuring and tuning to get performance out it. Just my experience.

Whaat?

[dgagley]

This is interesting. I have worked with Beehive Forms to send ads to different Newspapers for the last four years. Who will win in the name dispute? Or are they both under the same company?

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