[ObjectWeb Consortium] -> [Associate Organizations]

Associate Organizations

ObjectWeb's activity is deeply anchored in the industrial fabric and its business model revolves around a strong support from innovation heavyweights including leading companies, governmental programs and renowned software communities.

The ongoing, large scale development of the code base is achieved with the involvement of these proactive actors that hail from different backgrounds but all support ObjectWeb's ambition and goals. They provide various kinds of resources, eventually building a significant part of the actual community. Along with individual contributions, their support in terms of finance, manpower or notoriety ensure the sustainability of ObjectWeb's projects development on the long-run.

Financial Support

ITEA www.itea-office.org

ITEA is an eight-year strategic pan-European programme for advanced pre-competitive research and development in embedded and distributed software. PEPiTA and OSMOSE are two ITEA-labelled projects that leverage the ObjectWeb code base.

RNRT www.telecom.gouv.fr/rnrt

The National Network for Research in Telecommunications (RNRT) objectives are to foster innovation that address Telecom market needs, and to facilitate the transition of the French national telecom industry to the open market. ObjectWeb has benefited of this program through the PAROL and the Corsica projects.

RNTL www.telecom.gouv.fr/rntl

The National Network for Innovation and Research in Software Technologies (RNTL) is a governmental programme launched in 1999 wich sponsors exploratory, pre-competitive sofware projects as well as plateforms. The current ObjectWeb code base leverage results of several RNTL projects such as Arcad and IMPACT.

French Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry & French Ministry of the Recherche and New Technologies www.recherche.gouv.fr www.minefi.gouv.fr

The French Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry and the French Ministry of the Recherche and New Technologies support ObjectWeb through financing programs like RNTL, RNRT and ITEA. Those programs foster the cooperative development between the industry and public research laboratories.

Standardization Bodies

AFNOR www.afnor.fr

The French Normalisation Association (AFNOR) is a state-approved organisation, placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Industry. Its missions are to pilot and coordinate the preparation of standards, to represent and defend french interests within all standardisation bodies, to approve standards, to promote and facilitate the use of standards, to develop NF certification and products, services and systems certification. AFNOR was a partner in the PAROL RNRT project

Integration Consortium www.integrationconsortium.org

The Integration Consortium, is a non-profit, leading industry body responsible for influencing the direction of the integration industry. Its members champion Integration Acumen by establishing standards, guidelines, best practices, research and the articulation of strategic and measurable business benefits. The Integration Consortium's motto is "Forging Integration Value."

The mission of the member-driven Integration Consortium is to establish universal seamless integration which engages industry stakeholders from the business & technology community.

FIPA www.fipa.org

The Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) is a non-profit organisation aimed at producing standards for the interoperation of heterogeneous software agents.

The Java Community Process (JCP) is an open organization of international Java developers and licensees whose charter is to develop and revise Java technology specifications, reference implementations, and technology compatibility kits. All founders of the ObjectWeb consoritum are members of the JCP.

Related Open-Source Communities

Apache Software Foundation www.apache.org

The Apache Software Foundation is a membership-based, non-profit corporation that provides organizational, legal, and financial support for the Apache open-source software projects. Many ObjectWeb projects use open-source software from Apache (this page lists some of these third-party open-source components).

CUBE-WINCLUB exists since 1984 as a user association, regrouping about 200 companies using Bull systems, applications and services. In 2002, CUBE created the WINCLUB in order to open its activities to a multi user environment collaborating with Open Source editors, including ObjectWeb. CUBE-WINCLUB is a platform where one can get feedback and share experience with other users. CUBE-WINCLUB organises in year 2004 several meetings, conferences and seminars to help attendees build the foundations of a successful, secure computer system (open middleware, public key infrastructure, ...).

Eclipse www.eclipse.org

Eclipse is an open platform for tool integration built by an open community of tool providers. Operating under a open-source paradigm, with a common public license that provides royalty-free source code and world-wide redistribution rights, the Eclipse platform provides tool developers with ultimate flexibility and control over their software technology. ObjectWeb provides since April 2004 a French Eclipse download mirror site hosted by INRIA.

Enhydra.org www.enhydra.org

Enhydra.org is an open source community initially created by Lutris Technologies, Inc. It is similar to Apache, but with a focus on E-Business software revolving around the application server.

Following the withdrawal of Lutris Technologies, the ObjectWeb Consortium has taken over sponsorship of Enhydra.org on June, 2002. Today most Enhydra.org projects are using the ObjectWeb infrastructure.

Debian www.debian.org

Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux. The ObjectWeb Consortium infrastructure is mainly powered by Debian GNU/Linux.

MMBase Foundation www.mmbase.org

The goal of the MMBase Foundation is facilitating the content management system MMBase for Open Source usage, along with its community, focusing on the stabilization, innovation and continuity of the software. MMBase is a Web Content Management System (CMS) with strong multi media features and advanced portal functionalities. MMBase has a large installed base especially in The Netherlands. MMBase is used by major Dutch broadcasters, publishers, educational institutes, national and local governments. ObjectWeb and MMBase both target professional development of open-source software, on two complimentary layers. The two organizations share same values and develop overlapping communities.

Huihoo.org www.huihoo.org

Founded in 2002, Huihoo.org is a non-profit organization which focus on building enterprise open source infrastructure. Huihoo.org's mission is to promote open source movement in China and supply an open collaboration platform for developers, university ,enterprise. Huihoo.org's open source project includes J2EE, Corba server, WebServices components, Continue Integration server, UML tool and so on. ObjectWeb and Huihoo share same values. Both organizations develop complementary and overlapping communities.

Others

TheServerSide.com www.theserverside.com

TheServerSide.com is a news source and developer community centered around J2EE and middleware issues. TheServerSide offers a comprehensive, content-rich online portal for the burgeoning community of J2EE developers. Built for developers, by developers, the community-driven site offers daily updated J2EE specific news, discussions, design patterns, product reviews, events, resources, and more. TheServerSide is an interesting J2EE success story. Not only is it the central community for J2EE developers, but the site itself is a J2EE application - one of the first live sites to use EJB when deployed in early 2000.

JavaRSS.com javarss.com

"Just one bookmark, for all feeds from Java News, Articles and Blogs."