Enhydra

The Enhydra.org project has its focus on E-Business middleware software. It now consists of many developers from over 50 countries. You can count on the project group because it is backed by the Objectweb consortium, a truly open source oriented middleware consortium, and a number of big commercial sponsors. Many of these are able to offer commercial products, support, consulting and training.

The Enhydra.org Web site was initially created by Lutris Technologies, Inc. Starting from beginning of May 2002, ObjectWeb took over the sponsorship of the Enhydra initiative hosting. All Enhydra projects now use the ObjectWeb infrastructure and in particular the ObjectWeb Forge which is based on GForge.

Enhydra.org started with Enhydra, 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 Janurary 15th 1999. They named 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 EDV-Dienstleistungen GmbH. located in Europe (Austria, Serbia and Slovakia). One of the outcomes of this sponsorship is Enhydra JaWE, the open source part of Together Workflow Editor Professional.