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What is "Open Source?"
There are many ways to describe Open Source, but we'll use this recommended one liner from www.opensource.org:
"Open source promotes software reliability and quality by supporting independent peer review and rapid evolution of source code."

Why should I use an open source Application Server?
Open source software is often superior to closed source, being more robust, feature rich, and adaptable. For example, most of the software infrastructure used to run the Internet is developed using an Open Source model, including Linux, Apache, SendMail, TCP/IP, HTTP, and Perl.

What is an Application Server?
The term "Application Server" has been used with respect to so many diverse software products that the term can seem confusing. One way to understand an application server is to think about it as an application that provides services for other applications. For example, virtually every web application needs to accept HTTP requests, maintain session state, and pool database connections. Instead of rewriting these services for every application, you can run your application on top of an application server that already provides these services.

What is Enhydra?
Enhydra is an Open Source application server that facilitates the rapid development and deployment of Java and XML based applications, including e-Commerce, business to business, business to client, and Intranet applications for the wired and wireless web. A flexible development environment, Enhydra supports complete separation of interface design, business logic, and data logic, creating highly maintainable applications with very flexible deployment scenarios.

What is Enhydra.org?
Enhydra.org is an organization sponsored by ObjectWeb Consortium as a non-commercial vehicle for making Enhydra available to be the Open Source community. Enhydra.org is making every effort to adhere to the spirit of the Open Source movement and accepted guidelines such as those published by opensource.org at www.opensource.org/osd.html.

How do I contact Enhydra.org?
The best way is using the Enhydra email list, enhydra@enhydra.org. It is used widely by the Enhydra community. You can get more information about the Enhydra mail lists from the mail list information page.