Open Source Frameworks

The Property Set Library (PSL) is a template-based C++ container library providing value observation, event calling, garbage collection, serialization, object persistence, reflection, thread-safety and other accompanying features.

ACDK - Artefaktur Component Development Kit - is a platform independent C++-framework similar to Java or C#/.NET for generating distributed and scriptable components and applications.

Advanced CORBA/IIOP implementation with run-time IDL parsing, dynamic bindings and native IDL to Objective C mapping. Includes graphical tool to browse IDL definitions, to view Naming Service hierarchy and to invoke arbitrary CORBA remote operations.

Ajax Data Objects (ajaxdo) provides an easy database persistency framework for JavaScript objects. Ajaxdo enables runtime loading, saving, deleting, and listing of JavaScript objects stored on the server database.

A Java framework for building component architectures that makes use of reflection, metadata and byte code manipulation to push the limits of automation in place of configuration and code generation.

Bodega is a distributed objects database framework for AJAX, RIA, REST, SOA, and Web Services.

Alternative implementation of Spring framework remoting subsystem that supports different schemes of remote communication between client and server (1-1, 1-many, dynamic services discovering).

The CoreLibrary is a multiplatform object library for C++ (Linux, Win32, MacOSX, PocketPC). It provides many of the common objects found in Java (Strings, Threads, Collections, etc.) and has the ability to send objects across the network like CORBA.

It is a lightweight API to invoke web services (RMI, CORBA, WebService (SOAP), XML-RPC, EJB, Hessian, Burlap, REST, ...), how simple Java Object calls. You can integrate Crispy in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) or in a Rich Client Platform (RCP).

Dotlife is a very simple open source framework for C++ distributed objects. There are no advanced features but just a focus about how object can communicate in a distributed manner. Dotlife has also a minimal support for unit testing.

EJOE is a lightweight remoting framework with focus on pluggable (de)serialization mechanisms. It offers a scaleable high-performance implementation of the request-process-response-pattern build around a modern multithreaded server architecture.

EL4NET, the extension library for the .NET framework, provides an open and extensible component model, a flexible configuration system, and a mechanism that allows distributed applications to be deployed without changes on multiple physical architectures.

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A Java library for distributed programming

Hermes is a P2P middleware. It's not a framework, but it's a shell over the existing frameworks. This shell is made in such a fashion that it's possible to the app developer to change the underlying framework without any changes to his app code.

Hessian is a replacement for XML when you need something fast and simple while direct access to the data (using a text editor) is less important.

HessianKit is a Framework for Objective-C 2.0 to allow applications for Mac OS X 10.5, and iPhone 2.0 or later to communicate with Hessian web services. The main goals; Be compliant and forgiving, seamless Objective-C experience, and avoid glue-code.

JML Nitrate is a java based micro-kernel designed to allow the dynamic processing of information. It takes care of the core functionality needed in most applications. Build Server - http://saphari.com/hudson/job/JMLNitrate/

JPluto integrates the popular Linux-based home automation package Pluto with Java. This project integrates at the database level and using a Java version of Pluto's DCE ("Data, Commands, Events") protocol. This is NOT a rewrite of Pluto! This project

The JProgress project provides tools for connectivity with Java clients and the Progress database. JProgress provides an n-tier software architecture for database access for executing remote requests over WANs and the Internet.

This lightweight dynamic component framework, implemented in Java in a first time uses no code generation at all but uses only contracts. Contracts are expressed using simple software mechanism as interfaces and/or reflection (from middleware to application). A single small jar hosts the code dedicated to data, event and services management over the network, using contracts, reflection and generics. The main goal of the Java Dynamic Component Framework (jdcf) is to simplify the writing (and reuse) of individual Java components, parts of distributed networked application. The model of the application is described in an XML file. The components are pure Java classes file using a pure Java middleware. Each component may be packaged in a jar or several related components may be packaged together. Component migration over the network is planned. Go to the Wiki to have an overview.

How can we easily develop applications for multicore or multicomputer architectures? We frequently use middlewares for that problem, but they are often complex and less productive. This way, at DECOM-UFOP, we have a middleware, named JavaCa&La or just JCL, to build portable and scalable solutions over many high performance computer architectures. Our middleware APIs is simple, intuitive and designed for young and senior programmers who don’t have high performance programming skills. Using our middleware, different programmers can develop applications in a collaborative way, i.e., one programmer application can read and write global variables from another application, developed by another programmer, in another machine, without explicit references. Existing Java applications can be executed by JCL. Low refactorings to insert distributed JCL maps in your existing code. Portable JCL code for multicore and multicomputer architectures.

JeCARS (Java Extendable Contents And Rights System) is a RESTful webservice which delivers pluggable output formats, e.g. Atom feeds or HTML. Third party applications can be plugged in. A JCR (JSR-170) repository (Jackrabbit) is used for storage.

Juffrou stands for Java Utilities Framework For the Rest Of Us and is a collection of useful classes or mini frameworks to help the java developer. Checkout the juffrou-reflect module if you are into performant java bean handling. There is also an xml marshaller / unmarshaller which is easy to use and has cool features like the Simplified Marshalling of nested beans.

MayFly is a container to allow easy deployment of CORBA objects and to provide communication via SOAP to new or legacy CORBA objects. It includes an ORB, Naming Service, Interface Repository and IDL compilers.