# alibaba/BeeHive

:honeybee: BeeHive is a solution for iOS Application module programs, it absorbed the Spring Framework API service concept to avoid coupling between modules.

Repository: https://github.com/alibaba/BeeHive
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/alibaba-beehive
Homepage: https://github.com/alibaba/BeeHive/blob/master/README.md
Language: Objective-C
License: GPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: beehive, registered-services, modular, ios, service, module, service-discovery, service-registration, lifecycle, lifecycle-events, plugin
Archived: true
Last push: 2020-09-25T03:29:09+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3684, "days_push": 2168, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4330, forks 774 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:45.960905+00:00)

## What it is
BeeHive is an iOS modularization framework from Alibaba, inspired by the Spring Framework's service concept, that decouples app modules via service registration/discovery and module lifecycle event handling. It supports static and dynamic module registration, asynchronous loading, and inter-module calls through declared service interfaces.

## Use cases
- decouple modules in a large iOS app
- register and discover services between iOS modules
- handle module lifecycle events in iOS
- split an iOS application into independent modules
- avoid direct coupling between iOS components
- manage app-level module initialization order

## When to choose
- building a large modularized Objective-C iOS application
- you want Spring-style service registration and discovery on iOS
- you need centralized module lifecycle event distribution

## When to avoid
- starting a new project today - the repo was archived in October 2025 and is read-only
- Swift-first or SwiftUI projects with modern architecture patterns
- you need actively maintained dependencies or recent iOS API support

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: abandoned
- function: plugin-system, middleware, developer-tools
- domain: mobile-development, developer-tools
- platform: -
- tags: modular-architecture, service-registration, decoupling, spring-inspired, cocoapods, archived, architecture, ios, mobile, objective-c

## Member repositories
- alibaba/BeeHive (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:45.960905+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:21:40.565496+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/alibaba/BeeHive (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:45.960905+00:00, sha 3984b1381944)
  - homepage: https://github.com/alibaba/BeeHive/blob/master/README.md (fetched 2026-08-29T09:10:35.750232+00:00, sha 8b7146f7a424)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.