Java Application Server Enhydra

Java Open Source Application Server

Enhydra Server Enhydra Server is an Open Source Java application and webservice server including standard Apache Tomcat (or alternatively Jetty) and Apache Axis with a very big difference ! While the servlet API is used to support presentation logic, the platform contains just about all enterprise level services to build extreme high volume web sites in an n-tier architecture. The architecture is designed for perfomance and in tests we showed incredible performance numbers ! Many Enhydra servers are powering the Web today, some catering to millions of transactions a day. One of the most talked about features of Enhydra is its Enhydra XMLC technology - an object-oriented standards based replacement for JSP that completely separates the designer and developer. In addition, Enhydra includes a relational-to-object mapping tool (Enhydra DODS), Enhydra Workflow (Shark and JaWE), clustering web server extensions for Apache, IIS and IPlanet and much more. Check it out, you won't be sorry! :-)
Enhydra Enterprise This is the effort to bring the advantages of the Open Source Java application server Enhydra to existing J2EE container implementations. Open Source J2EE containers like JOnAS and JBoss are supported already ! And Apache Geronimo will also be packaged as an alternative to EAF addons for commercial J2EE servers like IBM Websphere, BEA Weblogic, Oracle and Sun J2EE servers.

The goal...

Download ONE Enhydra Application Server distribution file and get everything you need to start development of your Java Web applications and/or webservices. A professional Eclipse IDE with plugins, a standard Tomcat Java Servlet Server, the Enhydra XMLC presentation framework, Barracuda MVC framework, Enhydra DODS for relational/object mapping, Enhydra Director web server plugin for loadbalancing/clustering, Enhydra Octopus for JDBC based relational transformations of data, Enhydra Shark and JaWE for workflow technology based solutions, Enhydra Snapper to integrate fulltext indexing/search, lots of source code examples and much more...

Everything packaged into one carefully assembled solution !

How it all started...

Enhydra.org started with Enhydra Server, the first and leading Open Source Java/XML application server. It was initially created by Lutris Technologies, Inc. which already disappeared from the market. After 4 years in development it was open sourced on January 15th 1999. They called the technology "Enhydra" after the California sea otter (Enhydra Lutris) - a popular inhabitant of Santa Cruz.

Big parts of Enhydra development are now sponsored by Together Teamlösungen located in Europe (Vienna, Belgrade and Bratislava) but it also has a very active community.

Enhydra's design and evolution is driven out of real world project experience and thus facilitates the rapid development and deployment of Java, XML and Webservice based applications. A flexible development environment supports complete separation of interface design, business logic, and data objects, geared towards building maintainable applications and supporting flexible deployment scenarios.

Thanks to the fantastic Enhydra community and Enhydra.org partners, Enhydra continues to advance at an amazing pace.

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