Buzz about Beehive

In May BEA donated its application framework to the Apache Software Foundation where it became known as Beehive. Yesterday, BEA announced milestone 1 release of Beehive as well as additional platform support - Beehive now runs on JOnAS and Apache Geronimo in addition to Apache Tomcat. Beehive offers the ease of development offered by BEA's WebLogic Workshop 8.1 and provides a complete framework for developing an SOA without requiring developers to master the complexity of the J2EE architecture.Apache Beehive can be obtained from the Apache Software Foundation at http://incubator.apache.org/beehive/