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BEA WebLogic workshop to leverage Eclipse news
Our Infotech Bureau
06 March 2005

BEA Systems, Inc (Nasdaq: BEAS), a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, has announced that it is joining the Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal development platform, as a strategic developer and board member. As part of this commitment, BEA has offered to lead the 'web tools platform' (WTP) project, and a BEA senior architect has been elected to the WTP project management committee as co-lead.

In addition, BEA is proposing a new 'language development tools' project and is also merging its open source AspectWerkz project with the Eclipse AspectJ project. The next release of BEA WebLogic workshop, the company's Java development tool and programming model, will be built leveraging the Eclipse framework. Through the combination of its project leadership and technological contributions, BEA wants to benefit not only the Eclipse and BEA communities, but also the Java community at large, by supporting industry convergence around Eclipse as a single development platform, as well as furthering innovation in Java development via the open-source community.

BEA Systems executive vice president Wai Wong said: "This relationship demonstrates BEA's role as a leading industry innovator and builds on a long history of BEA standards-setting efforts and open-source leadership in organisations such as the W3C, OASIS, the Java Tools community and the Apache Software Foundation."

BEA Systems has 15,000 customers world-wide, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. BEA's WebLogic and Tuxedo brands are among the most trusted names in business technology. Headquartered in San Jose, California, BEA has 75 offices in 36 countries. Since its release, BEA WebLogic workshop has won more than a dozen industry awards recognising its ease-of-use features and innovations in the creation of web services and service-oriented architectures. The next version of Workshop is code-named Daybreak, and BEA plans to move its implementation of the WebLogic workshop IDE framework to the Eclipse open tools platform.

 


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BEA WebLogic workshop to leverage Eclipse