Projects

Projects

The Consortium's activities for software development are organized into Projects. A Project regroups development actions corresponding to one or more technical software components, or the integration of different technical components in order to build a platform. Projects are the raison d'être of OW2, without projects, OW2 just does not exist. Projects represent the fundamental activity. At OW2, everything starts with a Project.

Building on the legacy of ObjectWeb and OrientWare, OW2 is fully committed to managing open source projects. They currently cover a broad scope of functionality including application platforms, persistency/database solutions, workflow engines, software engineering, etc. OW2 provides a “home” as well as a showcase to open source software projects. Each project evolves through a well documented project life cycle. OW2 already hosts more than 100 projects.

The Technology Council is responsible for building the overall technical architecture, including defining technical guidelines, for providing technology validation, for making Project lifecycle decisions, for monitoring production and overall Projects consistency.

Submiting a new project

You can directly submit a project from the OW2 Forge project submission page. Please note that only registered members can submit projects on the Forge. The proposal is then debated on the Technology Council mailing list which evaluates it relevance for OW2 in terms of complementarities, synergies, licence, support, etc. Each project must also be presented and discussed at a Technology Council meeting. The Technology Council must reach a consensus to adopt the project. It is then provisionned in the OW2 Forge and you can start working on it.

Project selection criteria

Projects submissions are evaluated by the Technology Council which decides by consensus whether or not to host the project on the OW2 infrastructure. The Technology Council will decide after evaluating and reaching consensus on five principal criteria:

• Is it middleware (at large)?
• Does the team show goodwill to synergize with other OW2 projects?
• Is the license compatible with the IPR policy?
• Is the Project able to release code?
• Is the Project overlapping (or redundant) with other projects?

Projects Life Cycle

The project life cycle is composed of three stages: Incubation, Maturity and Archive. New projects start in the Incubation stage then may move to the Maturity stage and, ultimately, might end up in Archive stage depending on periodic evaluation by the Technology Council. If you intend to submit a project or to contribute to a project, we recommend you read the OW2 Project Life Cycle document.

Interoperability Clusters: the Himalaya program

Throughout 2008, the OW2 community is working towards developing seamless interoperability between the different software components which comprise its code base. This is a bottom-up, peer-to-peer effort aiming at enhancing technical relationship between projects. Some projects with natural complementarities will group to create what we call interoperability clusters. These clusters will then connect to form a comprehensive range hence the name of the program.

Packages

Many OW2 projects already come as ready-to-use packages. They are provided as complete archives which you only needs to download and install to start using them.

We have organized them in several categories: Application Platforms, Persistency / Database, BPM/Workflow Engines, IDE plug-ins, Software Engineering, XML / Presentation, Benchmarking, Security Services.

Other OW2 projects are not listed here because no stable version is packaged so far. To download them, you need to use the Forge. As developments go on, more projects are made available for download, so this list is going to expand. Stay tuned and come back to check for new packages.

Application platforms
Project	Description	Datasheet	Status	License	Standards
Easybeans	Easybeans is a lightweight container implementing EJB3 specification.	PDF	Production	LGPL	Java EE, EJB 3.0
Enhydra	Java/XML Application Server & Dev Kit.		Production	LGPL	Servlets, XML
JOnAS	Java EE Open Application Server.	PDF	Production	LGPL	Java EE
JORAM	JMS compliant enterprise messaging middleware.		Production	LGPL	JMS
Open Mobile IS	Open Mobile IS is a Java framework that aim to provide all the functionalities and components needed for the developpement of entreprise mobile application.		Production	LGPL	JMS
PEtALS	JBI compliant ESB providing a service oriented infrastructure for both centralized integration solutions and highly distributed architectures.	PDF	Production	LGPL	JBI, Java EE, ESB
ProActive	GRID platform for Parallel, Distributed and Concurrent Computing in Java.		Production	LGPL	WS, OSGi, Globus, Unicore, gLite, LSF, PBSGlobus, JINI
Spagic	Solution oriented towards planning, realization, deploy and monitoring of ESB infrastructures adherent to the SOA paradigm.		Production	LGPL	Java, Java EE
SpagoBI	SpagoBI is a unified business intelligence platform which uses many FOSS tools.		Production	LGPL	Java, Java EE
Spago4Q	Spago4Q (SpagoBI for Quality) is a platform for maturity assessment, effectiveness of development software process and quality inspection of the released software.		Production	LGPL	Java, Java EE
Funambol (Sync4j)	Open source SyncML server and framework.		Production	GPL	Java, Java EE, SyncML
OpenCCM	CORBA Component Model Platform.		Beta	LGPL	CCM, Java
GASP	Middleware for mobile multiplayer online games and implementation of the Open Mobile Alliance Gaming Services specifications.		Alpha	LGPL	Java, Mobile, OMA GS
Persistency / Databases
Project	Description	Datasheet	Status	License	Standards
Enhydra DODS	Code Generator for Object-to-Relational Mapping.		Production	LGPL	Java, SQL
Jalisto	Lightweight transactional database in Java.		Production	LGPL	Java SE, Java ME
JORM	Java Adaptable Persistency Service.		Production	LGPL	Java
MEDOR	Distributed objects Request Manager.		Production	LGPL	Java, SQL
Enhydra Octopus	JDBC-based Extraction, Transformation and Loading Tool.		Production	LGPL	JDBC, XML
Perseus	Component-based persistence framework that solves issues such as cache management, concurrency management (even distributed), transaction management, storage management, logging management...		Production	LGPL	Java, JCA
RmiJdbc	Enable Remote Access to any JDBC Compliant Database.		Production	LGPL	JDBC
Speedo	Open Implementation of the JDO specification.		Production	LGPL	JDO
XAPool	XAPool is an XA database connection pool: it implements javax.sql.XADataSource, and provides connection pooling facilities.		Production	LGPL	Java, JDBC, XA
BPM/Workflow Engines
Project	Description	Datasheet	Status	License	Standards
Bonita	Bonita is a XPDL-based workflow system which provides out-of-the-box workflow functionalities for defining and running business processes.	PDF	Production	LGPL	WfMC, Java EE, EJB, SOAP, XML
JaWE	Workflow Process Java Graphical Editor.		Production	LGPL	WfMC, Java
Orchestra	Web services orchestrationb suite based on the BPEL OASIS standard.	PDF	Production	LGPL	BPEL, Java EE, SOAP, XML
Shark	Workflow server based on WfMC and OMG standards.		Production	LGPL	WfMC, Java, OMG
IDE plug-ins
Project	Description	Datasheet	Status	License	Standards
Acceleo	MDA-oriented code generator natively based on Eclipse EMF.		Production	EPL	Java EE, Java
EclipseJDO	Eclipse plug-in that makes easy and fast to develop transaction applications in Java using standard JDO drivers.		Production	GPL	Java, JDO, Eclipse
Lomboz	Eclipse plug-in for Java EE developers.		Production	LGPL	Java, Java EE, Eclipse
Enhydra Kelp	IDE Plug-in for Enhydra Java/XML Application Server & Dev Kit.		Production	LGPL	Eclipse, Netbeans, Jbuilder, Jdeveloper
JOPE	JOPE (JOnAS Plugin for Eclipse) is an open source JOnAS plug-in for Eclipse.		Beta	LGPL	Eclipse, Java, Java EE
See also the ObjectWeb Consortium's Eclipse Update Sites if you want to install directly Eclipse plugins from Eclipse.
Software Engineering
Project	Description	Datasheet	Status	License	Standards
ASM	Lightweight Java Bytecode Manipulation Framework.	PDF	Production	BSD	Java
CAROL	Generic JNDI Provider Service for Local and Remote Objects.		Production	LGPL	JNDI, RMI, JRMP, IIOP
Enhydra Director	Web Server Plug-in for Enhydra Java/XML Application Server.		Production	LGPL	Java, XML
Fractal	Generic Software Composition Framework.		Production	LGPL	Java
JavaService	Allows server-type Java programs to be run in the background as a Windows NT/2000 system service, with simple configuration and reliable results.		Production	LGPL	Java, Windows
JOTM	Distributed transaction manager.		Production	BSD	JTA, JTS, OTS, BTP
Monolog	Portable Java Monitoring and Logging API.		Production	LGPL	Java, Log4J
Massiv	The Massiv is a distributed game middleware whose purpose is to simplify the development of distributed persistent massively multiplayer online games.		Beta	LGPL	C++
MobiliTools	OMG compliant Java toolbox for mobility of Java objects.		Beta	LGPL	Java, CORBA, MAF/MASIF
ModFact	ModFact stands for Model Factory and is a Tool Box for the Model Driven Architecture.		Beta	LGPL	Java, MDA
Dream	Component-based software framework dedicated to the construction of communication middleware.		Beta	LGPL	Java, Fractal
JAC	Aspect-oriented Application Server.		Beta	LGPL	Java
Pajé	The Pajé visualization tool provides interactive and scalable behavioral visualizations of the dynamics of the executions of parallel and distributed applications.		Beta	LGPL	Objective C
PolyORB	Schizophrenic middleware that has an original architecture decoupling protocol personalities from application personalities.		N/A	GMGPL	CORBA, DSA, MOMA, Web Services
SOFA	Platform for designing applications composed of hierarchical, dynamically updatable components.		Alpha	LGPL	Java, CORBA, IDL, XML
Spago	A Java EE Framework: a reusable, semi-complete infrastructure to customize for developing your applications.		Production	LGPL	Java, JDBC, EJB, Servlets, JSP, XML
XML / Presentation
Project	Description	Datasheet	Status	License	Standards
BarracudaMVC	Presentation Framework.		Production	LGPL	Java, Servlet, DOM, MVC
eXo Platfrom	Open source corporate portal and content management system.		Production	GPL	Java, CMS, Portlets, JSF
OFC Charts	Fills the need for publishing reports and statistics in graphical format such as curves and histograms. Fully written in JAVA and compatible with all popular IDEs. formats.		Production	LGPL	JPEG, PNG, SVG
Orbeon Presentation Server	A Java EE-based MVC framework for building Web applications that present and capture XML using XForms, XSLT and WebServices.		Production	LGPL	Java, Java EE, XML, XForms
XMLC	Radically simplifies web development by cleanly separating presentation from code.		Production	LGPL	Java, HTML, XML, DOM
XQuare	Set of Java components for extending Java EE platforms with XML-based, heterogeneous information integration capabilities, using the XQuery language.		Production	LGPL	Java, Java EE, XML, XQuery
XWiki	A wiki system supporting advanced features such as templates,database, dynamic development and skinablility.		Production	GPL	Java, Wiki
ActiveXML	Declarative framework that harnesses web services for data integration, and is put to work in a peer-to-peer architecture.		Beta	LGPL	Java, XML, Web Services
Telosys	Telosys is an Open Source framework designed to build easily "Rich Internet Applications" (based on a "Client/Server" principle), using Java EE (Servlet, JSP, JDBC),lightweight clients and XML requests via HTTP.		Production	LGPL	Ajax, MVC
Benchmarking
Project	Description	Datasheet	Status	License	Standards
BEEN	A generic tool for automated benchmarking in a heterogeneous distributed environment.	PDF	Production	LGPL	Java EE, EJB, SERVLETs, PHP
RUBiS	Auction Site for e-Commerce Technologies Benchmarking.		Production	LGPL	Java EE, EJB, SERVLETs, PHP
RUBBoS	Bulletin board benchmark modeled after an online news forum like Slashdot.		Production	LGPL	Java EE, EJB, SERVLETs, PHP
CLIF	Generic load injection platform for benchmarking middleware.		Beta	LGPL	Java
LeWYS	Fractal monitoring framework providing a library of probes for both hardware and software resources.		Alpha	LGPL	C, Java
Security Services
Project	Description	Datasheet	Status	License	Standards
LemonLDAP	LemonLDAP manages several levels of cache and gets authentication data from an LDAP directory.		Production	LGPL	Perl
FederID	The FederID project aims to offer a real solution of Identity Management and Identity Federation.	PDF	Production	LGPL	Java, Perl, Python