Eddie O'Neil

Overview WebLogic Workshop 8.1 included both an application framework and an IDE to support developing enterprise applications using Page Flows, Controls, and annotated web services. This post describes some of the differences between the 8.1 Workshop runtime and the Apache Beehive project. The Community Since 2003 when the WebLogic Workshop 8.1 application framework shipped, it has undergone significant change. Most notably, BEA contributed the framework to the Apache Software Foundation as the Beehive project. This donation was announced in May 2004, and Beehive underwent Apache incubation until August 2005 when it was converted into a top-level Apache project. This means that the code, community, bugs, development process, and future of the project is now open to the entire enterprise Java community. The change doesn't end there, however, as Beehive has made signi... (more)