The Enhydra team announces a joint effort with Open Source
advocates
BullSoft and France Telecom to deliver a complete,
enterprise-class
application server. By combining BullSoft's JOnAS EJB
server, France
Telecom's Jonathan ORB and Enhydra, these Open Source
sponsors are
delivering a highly customizable Open Source application
server that will
scale the entire range of Internet applications - from
embedded handheld
devices to enterprise applications. The integration of an
EJB engine in Enhydra
is the first step toward a full Java 2 Enterprise
Edition (J2EE) platform.
This initiative identifies strategic areas of technical cooperation and
builds
on the strengths of each contributing member. In addition, the
project will
leverage contributions and peer review by combining the large
and rapidly
growing community of developers from all three projects .
As announced to the Enhydra mailing list, we are planning to offer full
EJB
support in the Enhydra 3 release. This architecture will allow the
business
layer of an Enhydra application to be written with EJBs, while
servlets are
used for the presentation layer. To reach this goal, we are
working closely
with the JOnAS team (BullSoft) to integrate the JOnAS EJB
server and tools
into the Enhydra framework. JOnAS is a pure Java
implementation of the EJB
specification that provides:
- Support of stateless and stateful Session Beans
- Support of Entity Beans with either Bean Managed Persistence or
Container Managed Persistence
- Support of all the transaction attributes
- Support of JTA 1.0.1
- Distribution using RMI and naming using JNDI
The current Enhydra application model will continue to be supported
and
will benefit from the introduction of a robust EJB business layer.
The project has been kicked off with the creation of a branch to the
Enhydra
source to integrate the JOnAS and Jonathan projects. You can
find further
information and the EJB project mail list at:
http://www.enhydra.org/Projects/EJB_Project.html
Further information about JOnAS and Jonathan is available at:
http://www.bullsoft.com/ejb/
http://www.infres.enst.fr/~delpiano/Jonathan.htm
http://www.objectweb.org/
Planned for Q1, 2000, Enhydra version 3 will integrate the JOnAS EJB
server
and Jonathan ORB. A Beta release will be available soon from
the EJB
Project page.
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David H. Young
Vice President, Corporate Development
Lutris
Technologies, Inc.
1200 Pacific Avenue, Suite 200
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
USA
831.471.9753, x210; 831.471.9754 (fax)
http://www.lutris.com
http://www.enhydra.org
