Introduction

Object Ledge is a platform for building applications in Java 2 Standard and Enterprise Edition environments.

ObjectLedge follows component / container and Inversion Of Control design paradigms implemented with the excelent PicoContainer package.

ObjectLedge provides a number of components - basic building blocks of the applications, a few extensions to the Pico framework, customized containers for easy deployment of applications in command line, daemon, and J2EE servlet environments.

Project scope

Here's a project categorization entry along the lines of SourceForge's Trove. It provides give some basic informations about ObjectLedge in condensed form.

• Development Status: Production/Stable
• Environment: Web Environment, Console (Text Based), No Input/Output (Daemon), Other Environment
• Intended Audience: Developers, Information Technology
• License: OSI Approved BSD
• Natural Language: English
• Operating System: OS Independent
• Programming Language: Java
• Topic: Software Development

Why the name?

"Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)"

Ledge Ledge (le^j), n. Akin to AS. licgan to lie, Icel.

liggja; cf. Icel. l"ogg the ledge or rim at the bottom of a

cask. See Lie to be prostrate. Formerly written lidge.

1. A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which
   
   resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting
   
   ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.
2. A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
3. A layer or stratum.

   The lowest ledge or row should be of stone.
   
   -- Sir H. Wotton.

4. (Mining) A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable
   
   mineral.
5. (Shipbuilding) A piece of timber to support the deck,
   
   placed athwartship between beams.

We hope that Object Ledge will be a rock-solid foundation on which a variety of aplications can be built easily and quickly, with confidence into the platform's integrity.

License

This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software.

OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative.



Object Ledge is made available on the terms of BSD license, which has been certified by the Open Source Initiative organization.



In short, you are granted the right to use Object Ledge in any endevaour commercial, or not, and create derived works, as long as you give apropriate credit to the authors.