Apache Beehive Milestone 1 released

BANGALORE: BEA has recently announced the Apache Beehive Milestone 1 (M1) release. This release offers support for Java controls, NetUI page flows, and Java Web services, and includes full developer documentation as well as a sample Java application. Said an online report.

The Workshop Application Framework was donated to Apache in June, 2004 under the name Beehive.

The Apache Beehive projects can run on JOnAS and Apache Geronimo application servers in addition to Tomcat. Other Apache Beehive Tools include a control for Hibernate, an object/relational persistence and query service for Java, which improves ease-of-use and productivity for Java programmers. Said the report.

According to BEA the latest enhancements in BEA can enable developers to develop and collaborate on SOA-based applications.

The purpose of the Beehive programming model is to provide ease-of-use for Java developers. "Beehive combines the ease of use of Java Beans with Java meta data, to make it easy for developers to take their Java Beans and talk to Web services and create Web applications," said Garrett Conaty, principal technologist at BEA . "We believe that Beehive serves to strengthen the entire Java community."

Apache Beehive can be downloaded from the Apache Website.