BEA Achieves Key Open Source Milestones
SAN JOSE, Calif. Aug. 15, 2005 BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) today announced significant milestones in the companys open-source efforts, including code release milestones for Apache Beehive, Apache XMLBeans and the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP). Todays announcement helps to demonstrate the value of BEAs contributions to the open source community as well as the companys strategic commitment to having a leadership role in helping to advance Java, XML and Web Services innovation.
The new open-source milestones include:
* UPDATED BEEHIVE PROJECT STATUS: BEAs initial contribution has helped grow a community around Beehive, which the Apache Board recently recognized with a unanimous vote on a resolution to create a top-level Beehive project and Beehive PMC, which makes Beehive an independent, self-governing Apache project and no longer in incubation.
* UPDATED APACHE BEEHIVE CODE RELEASE: Apache Beehive 1.0 m1 is one of the first cross-container, ease-of-use programming model and framework for J2EE- and SOA-based applications. It is designed to facilitate an architecture based on reusable components and services reflecting best practices and design patterns. The final 1.0 release is anticipated soon.
* UPDATED APACHE XMLBEANS RELEASE: Apache XMLBeans V2.0.0 is a tool that is designed to allow developers to access the full power of XML in a Java friendly way. With XMLBeans, developers can take advantage of all the richness and features of XML and XML Schema by having these features mapped naturally to the equivalent Java language and typing constructs.
* UPDATED ECLIPSE WEB TOOLS PLATFORM RELEASE: The Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) project extends the Eclipse platform with a tools infrastructure to support J2EE and Web-enabled application development. BEA is co-leading the Eclipse WTP project.
Together, these open source milestones can help to provide developers with a powerful formula designed to help simplify the creation of J2EE and SOA-based applications. By leveraging its commercial experience and innovation around J2EE, SOA, XML, Web services and metadata, BEA partners with the open source community to help drive innovation in the Application Infrastructure and Service Infrastructure market categories, which is important to helping strengthen the Java market as a whole.
We recognize the open source community as an excellent place for driving new industry innovations. As a key contributor to many of the most innovative open source projects, BEA continues to demonstrate our commitment to deliver technologies that designed to help companies turn their frozen IT assets into enterprise liquid assets, said Mark Carges, BEA chief technology officer. We want to help provide Java developers everywhere an open-source, cross-platform application framework designed to help them productively build J2EE and Service-oriented applications. Also, our broad application framework is designed to distinguish BEA WebLogic Server from other application servers for its openness, simplicity and choice for the developer.
Apache Beehive and Apache XMLBeans are supported for deployment on the BEA WebLogic Platform and an essential part of BEA WebLogic Server, a fully-featured, standards-based application server designed for reliable, scalable, and manageable applications. WebLogic Server supports a variety of programming models and frameworks designed to help provide developers with the right tool for the job while being able to leverage WebLogic Servers superior value-added capabilities in the areas of performance, reliability, scalability, and manageability.
With the next version of Workshop, code-named Daybreak, BEA plans to move its implementation of the WebLogic Workshop IDE framework to the Eclipse open tools platform representing a convergence of some of the most significant innovations for Java tooling into a single product. BEA WebLogic Workshop will incorporate Eclipse WTP capabilities in the next version, expanding on Workshops award-winning ease-of-use features and innovations in the creation of Web applications, Web services and Service-oriented applications.
In addition, BEA plans to develop the industry's first J2EE application environment that is designed to fully support leading open source application frameworks to assist customers in mixing and matching of frameworks, programming models and deployment environments. BEA WebLogic Workshop is being designed to allow applications to be built or blended from leading J2EE and open source frameworks, including Apache Beehive, the Spring Framework, Apache Struts and Java Server Faces, and then allow customers to easily deploy their blended applications on the BEA high-performance application server, BEA WebLogic Server.
Apache Beehive 1.0 m1 is now available at http://beehive.apache.org, and Apache XMLBeans V2.0.0 is now available at http://xmlbeans.apache.org. Eclipse WTP 0.7 is now available at www.eclipse.org. For more information, please visit http://dev2dev.bea.com/.
About BEA
BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, providing standards-based platforms to accelerate the secure flow of information and services. BEA product lines WebLogic, Tuxedo, JRockit, and the new AquaLogic family of Service Infrastructure help customers reduce IT complexity and successfully deploy Service-Oriented Architectures to improve business agility and efficiency. For more information please visit www.bea.com.
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