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    BEA Releases Enhanced Beehive Open-Source Framework

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    John Pallatto
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    November 15, 2004
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      LAS VEGAS—BEA Systems Inc. has made significant progress in the development of the Apache Beehive component model, which is designed to help accelerate the development of Web services and SOA (service-oriented architecture) applications.

      At the ApacheCon U.S. 2004 conference here, BEA Systems officials on Monday announced the availability of the Apache Beehive Milestone 1 Release (M1), which supports Java Controls, NetUI PageFlows and Java Web Services.

      Beehive is BEAs effort to turn over its WebLogic Workshop development framework to the open-source community to enable the production of applications on open-source server platforms.

      With the release of Milestone 1, applications developed with the Apache Beehive framework will support applications running on the Apache Geronimo and Tomcat application servers as well as on the ObjectWeb Consortiums JOnAS (Java Open Application Server), which is a pure-Java, open-source implementation of the Enterprise JavaBeans specification, according to Garrett Conaty, principal technologist at BEA Systems.

      /zimages/6/28571.gifClick here to read about why BEA enlisted Beehive in the Eclipse Foundations Pollinate project.

      The M1 code release for the Apache Beehive project is available for use both in Beehive open-source development and by BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 users. It can be downloaded from the Apache Software Foundation Web site here.

      The Beehive Milestone 1 lets developers use Beehive or BEAs WebLogic Workshop 8.1 to contribute additional applications and components to the community code base, Conaty said.

      “We think that Beehive is the right application model for Java developers,” Conaty said. “It lets them build J2EE [Java 2 Enterprise Edition] applications as well as build SOA applications without having to be experts in those technologies,” he said.

      “We think that Beehive as an open-source project can be a rallying point for the Java community because it leverages so many other Apache open-source projects that it really provides a central development model” for the Apache community, Conaty said.

      It can achieve this goal because Beehive “capitalizes on the simplicity of JavaBeans,” he said. “Beehive makes Java simple to develop with and fun to develop with,” he said.

      This kind of simplicity and transparency “is very much needed” in the Java development community, said Tobias Schoessler, a senior application developer working with the United Nations in Vienna, Austria.

      Schoessler, who is part of a small Web development team working with the U.N., said he has not looked closely at Beehive to date. But he said he thinks Java developers need more open-source development tools because the existing tools are too closely tied to specific vendors integrated development environments.

      Beehive has a lot of potential for the Java programming community because IT technology vendors and Java developers are headed in the direction of integrated Web services development, said Russ Witte, a Web engineer at Wells Fargo Inc. in San Francisco.

      The framework should be valuable to developers because it “makes it simple and straightforward for developers to quickly sketch out the Web services end” of Java application development, Witte said.

      While Witte said he doesnt do a lot of Java programming, “I will take a look at it, and I will encourage some of my fellow employees who are more qualified than I am to take a close look at it,” he said.

      /zimages/6/28571.gifCheck out eWEEK.coms for the latest news, reviews and analysis in Web services.

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      John Pallatto
      John Pallatto has been editor in chief of QuinStreet Inc.'s eWEEK.com since October 2012. He has more than 40 years of experience as a professional journalist working at a daily newspaper and computer technology trade journals. He was an eWEEK managing editor from 2009 to 2012. From 2003 to 2007 he covered Enterprise Application Software for eWEEK. From June 2007 to 2008 he was eWEEK’s West Coast news editor. Pallatto was a member of the staff that launched PC Week in March 1984. From 1992 to 1996 he was PC Week’s West Coast Bureau chief. From 1996 to 1998 he was a senior editor with Ziff-Davis Internet Computing Magazine. From 2000 to 2002 Pallatto was West Coast bureau chief with Internet World Magazine. His professional journalism career started at the Hartford Courant daily newspaper where he worked from 1974 to 1983.

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