The GOA Project defines a Generic Open Architecture Layer using pre-defined abstraction levels.
By Using the GOA Abstraction levels , the application gains a real extensibility and physical modularity enforced by the GOA Engine.
An object to relational database mapping framework, using the new JDK1.5 annotations, that fully manages the database. The programmers that are going to use this ORM should not even be concerned with the physical relational database.
The Open Distributed Framework project is aimed at developing an open-source, cross-platform framework for distributed, high-performance physical modelling and simulation.