Starting Point

Hello, I'm Sergio Taborda. I'm the author of MiddleHeaven and this is the first post of a long, I hope enjoyable, serie of posts were I will try do explain what MiddleHeaven is. This is not easy because it can be many things at once.
I will try to explain the main concepts , ideas, goals and trade-off I made along the way.
I'm not trying to convince you to use MiddleHeaven as it is in a very early stage, but I think the process can be very instructive both for you and for me.

Mainly MiddleHeaven is Open Source Java Framework. Some folks may ask "Another framework ?", yes, another framework. Why ? Because I fell current frameworks are very focussed on the technology and little on the business. I wanted a framework that could help me build complicated , distributed , rich applications with little effort by pre-integrating other common frameworks and fill the lacks where need be.

MiddleHeaven is more than a simple framework, is a set of mini-framework working together: the toolboxes.

MiddleHeaven is based on Java 1.6 with eyes on 1.7. and does not despise other frameworks out there. Instead it tries to incorporate the best in each of them and encapsulate it under a common interface so that in the future the underlining framework can be change to a more modern, robust one. MiddleHeaven stands for code library independancy as the JVM stands for OS independant execution (generally speaking).

At this point MiddleHeaven is in an alfa stage of development as it lacks UI abilities. However many toolboxes are already available ,and I will start to explain them in posts to come... Meanwhile you can dig the code.

Tank you