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BEA Announces Linux Community Endorses Apache Beehive

BEA Systems Inc announced additional endorsements from the Linux community for Apache Beehive, the industry's first cross-container, easy-to-use, open-source application framework designed for building service-oriented architectures (SOAs) and enterprise Java applications. Specifically, HP, Red Hat, JOnAS -- the open-source implementation by ObjectWeb of the J2EE specification -- and Geronimo -- the J2EE server project of the Apache Software Foundation-have endorsed Apache Beehive.

Introduced in May, Apache Beehive, offers an open-source application framework, or runtime, which can complement integrated development environments (IDEs). Based on the runtime application framework in BEA WebLogic Workshop, Apache Beehive is designed to be the industry's first, easy-to-use, open source foundation for building enterprise Java and service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications. Apache Beehive is designed to foster new innovations through industry-wide collaboration, ensure investment protection for both developer skills and applications and expand the community of Java developers.

"The support of Apache Beehive from within the open-source community validates the need to continue to expand the base of Java developers and drive further growth of the Java ecosystem," said Cornelius Willis, vice president of developer marketing at BEA Systems.

"Apache Beehive is an important part of our goal to help position HP to better serve our customers at every stage of their lifecycle -- from early development projects on entry-level platforms to full-scale, mission-critical enterprise deployments," said Martin Fink, vice president of Linux at HP. "This is yet another example of the strong partnership and shared vision we have with BEA. Working together, we can help to promote ease-of-use in enterprise computing and help customers to more easily realize the promise of the Adaptive Enterprise."

"Red Hat is pleased to see BEA-one of our major platform partners -- embrace open source so aggressively," said Deb Woods, vice president of product management at Red Hat. "Apache Beehive is designed to help speed innovation by opening up key pieces of the stack to complement and enhance existing open components, like Tomcat working with BEA. Red Hat currently plans to include Beehive components in future product releases to help customers protect their existing Java investments while taking advantage of the flexibility and cost benefits of open source."

"ObjectWeb leads open-source projects targeting infrastructure software and drives major community achievements, such as the delivery of JOnAS, one of the leading non-commercial J2EE application servers, the start up of the Web Tools Platform under the Eclipse umbrella and the development of open-source ESB solutions. In this context, we are very excited to work with BEA on establishing what we hope will become a preferred open-source framework for building SOA and enterprise Java applications," said Christophe Ney, executive director of the ObjectWeb Consortium.

"Apache Geronimo's growth and success has been possible in part through extensive collaboration with other open source projects, such as Apache Axis, ObjectWeb's HOWL, and the Spring container project. We look forward to collaboration with the Apache Beehive project to help provide Geronimo users with easy access to Beehive's technology for building SOAs," said Geir Magnusson, Jr., Apache Geronimo project chair. "As evidenced by our acceptance of Apache Beehive into the incubator, we see it as a significant step forward in helping to make Java enterprise application development easier, giving developers state-of-the-art innovations for any Java platform. We look forward to providing our users with access to Apache Beehive components in future versions of Geronimo."