The Community for Skyway Users, Developers, and Contributors

At Skyway Software, our vision is to eliminate the complexities of the software delivery lifecycle.  With our free and open source offering, Skyway Builder Community Edition (CE), our mission is to enable our community members, customers and partners to reduce the cost and complexity of developing software, so that they can deliver Spring-based Java web applications on time and on budget.

Skyway Builder Community Edition (CE) has been an open source project since March 2008.  The currently available release was developed by the project’s sponsor, Skyway Software; however, future releases will be a collaborative effort between Skyway Software and its community of contributing developers.

Skyway Builder is also available in the following commercial versions:

• Skyway Builder Standard Edition
• Skyway Builder Web Services Edition
• Skyway Builder Professional Edition
• Skyway Builder RSA Edition

Skyway Software utilizes two licenses for its open source offerings. The code that constitutes our set of Eclipse plug ins and RCP version of the stand alone application are all licensed to the community under the GPLv3 license. Use of this license means that anyone can download and use Skyway Builder Community Edition (CE) free of charge. You can even redistribute Skyway Builder CE free of charge as long as you also distribute it under the GPLv3 license. For enterprises, this means that you can pretty much do what you want with Skyway Builder CE as long as you do not attempt to resell or distribute it under a special license.

The output of Skyway Builder CE is pure Java code that runs within the Spring Framework. As you would expect though, there are a few classes that the generated code references which were created by Skyway. These classes are licensed to the community under the Apache Software License (ASL). The great thing about ASL is that there are very few redistribution restrictions. This means that applications that you create with Skyway Builder CE can be redistributed and sold even under your own commercial software license.