BEA to Open Source its Kodo Java Persistence APIs

BEA Systems has announced that it will open source a significant portion of BEA Kodo, its persistence engine, under the name Open JPA. BEA acquired Kodo as part of its purchase of SolarMetric, Inc. in November 2005. Open JPA will implement the persistence architecture described in the EJB 3.0 specification (and implements the early draft specification today.) Open JPA is expected to be available in the first half of 2006. BEA Kodo - the source for Open JPA - is available today for free evaluation and purchase.