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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