internetnews.com: BEA Opens Up to Developers

“Looking to take the sting out of Java development, BEA Systems
released code under Apache Beehive in the hopes of getting
programmers to write service-oriented architecture (SOAs)
applications.

“Launched in May to help sway developers to and unite them
against Microsoft .NET, Beehive is the donation of the company’s
WebLogic Workshop application framework, a development environment
for BEA’s run-time software, to the open source community under
Apache.

“The software maker also announced at the O’Reilly Open Source
Convention Wednesday that Apache XMLBeans, an incubation project to
help simplify Java and XML development, has been green-lighted as
an official Apache Software Foundation project. XMLBeans is an
XML-Java binding tool BEA submitted to Apache in September
2003…”

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