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The Apache Software Foundation has announced the release of Beehive 1.0, its component toolkit for J2EE and Struts.
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Beehive is aimed at making it easier to develop Web applications in Java by reducing the amount of coding needed to produce a working application.

The open-source project was originally spun out of BEA’s WebLogic Workshop. The company donated the code to the Apache Incubator project in May 2004, and Beehive became a top-level ASF project in July of this year. Eddie O’Neil, Beehive vice president, told Builder UK that the developers were pleased with the progress the project has made. “We’re very excited about it. It’s taken a bit, but we’re excited to get it done.”

Beehive consists of three main parts: NetUI, Controls and Web Service Metadata (WSM). NetUI is an MVC framework built on top of Apache Struts, adding a set of JSP tags for building HTML pages, and more complex UI controls such as data grids. Controls are back-end J2EE classes aimed at providing a consistent interface to different data sources and other resources. Both of these rely heavily on metadata, and conform to JSR 175, the Java Metadata standard.

(from TechRepublic, Apache’s Beehive 1.0 generates buzz)