All-- A friend of mine at BEA posted a blog entry on how to use Eclipse to build Beehive 1.0 enabled applications. The post is here:
http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/gmally/archive/2005/11/beehive_enable.html Doing this requires: Eclipse 3.1.1 WTP 1.0M8 Eclipse JDT + APT beta Beehive 1.0 There aren't visual design sufraces, but Eclipse 3.1.1 has a Java 5 enabled source editor. And, it's possible to build an app in Eclipse and deploy / run on a container. If you try it out, send along your experience! Eddie