Mission
OW2 is devoted to developing distributed infrastructure software able to interconnect systems that are heterogeneous by nature. To this end, the software developed by OW2 complies with open standards established by independent bodies such as JCP, OMG or OSGi and grants open access to the source code by means of open source licenses. OW2 claims that the open source approach guarantees the best possible level of compliance with standards.
The aim of the consortium is promoting the dialogue between technology suppliers and user companies, in order to foster the emergence of an offering of professional solutions based on open-source infrastructure software together with the required services – such as training, advice and maintenance.
Various components, developed by the OW2 consortium, are connected together into the JOnAS JEE server. OW2 also has an Eclipse plugin to develop JEE applications (Lomboz).
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