BEA Strengthens Its Lead in Developer Tools Market, Delivering Industry’s First Blended Development Environment

BEA Strengthens Its Lead in Developer Tools Market, Delivering Industry’s First Blended Development Environment

BEA Systems, Inc., a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced BEA Workshop 10.1, the industry’s first unified Blended development environment. The release demonstrates the company’s continued progress in executing on its blended software strategy and helps extend its leadership position in development tooling.

Combining the company’s Workshop for WebLogic(R) and Workshop Studio products, Workshop 10.1 is designed to provide a feature-rich, all-inclusive development environment that can help enable developers to combine the best of open source and commercial software to build

next-generation, service-enabled applications — the quintessence of BEA’s blended strategy and development model. Today, BEA is delivering on its previously announced plans to merge its existing developer tools capabilities with the Eclipse-based NitroX technology, re-branded as Workshop Studio. This technology came into the company as a part of its acquisition of M7 in the Fall of 2005 and is the winner of the 2006 “Best Commercial Eclipse-based tool” award from the Eclipse Foundation.

“Workshop 10.1 is BEA’s Blended vision come to fruition and helps developers build their applications the way they want, using both open source and commercial products. Blended is already the dominant model in enterprises and BEA is the first to recognize it,” said Bill Roth, vice president of Tools Division, BEA Systems, Inc. “This release is also significant in that it once again demonstrates BEA’s ability to successfully act on and optimize the value of its acquisitions, making them an integral part of the company’s product portfolio.”

BEA Workshop 10.1 is designed to provide Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5 tooling support to help accelerate and radically simplify application development. An integrated Object/Relational Mapping Studio can deliver superior EJB3/JPA, BEA Kodo(TM), OpenJPA and Hibernate tools for Eclipse. The product also includes the unique AppXRay(TM) technology and WYSIWYG development capabilities designed for open source and industry standard frameworks including Java Server Faces (JSF), Struts/Tiles, Spring, JSP/JSTL, EJB3/Hibernate, Apache Beehive and others to further help simplify development and increase overall productivity. A full drag-and-drop integrated development environment (IDE) for building enterprise-class services on BEA WebLogic Server(R) as well as a single point of management for builds, build reporting and build documentation for the open source maven build system are also new features in Workshop 10.1, showing the mix-and-match philosophy of blended in action. BEA Workshop also supports other application servers like those from IBM, JBoss/Redhat, as well as open source servers like Apache Tomcat.

Workshop 10.1 represents a significant step in the BEA WorkSpace 360 vision as it is designed to help developers collaborate with architects and implement the requirements of the architecture through a comprehensive and extensible development environment. Slated to enter the market throughout 2007, BEA WorkSpace 360 is designed to help fundamentally change the way that both business and IT professionals collaborate and work individually across the extended enterprise.

Availability

BEA Workshop 10.1 will be available in Summer 2007. For more information, visit http://www.bea.com/workshop . Additional information on Blended development can be found at http://www.bea.com/blended/ .

About BEA

BEA Systems, Inc. is a world leader in enterprise and communications infrastructure software. BEA’s SOA 360o platform is the industry’s most unified SOA platform for business transformation and optimization, in order to improve cost structures and grow new revenue streams. Information about how BEA is enabling customers to achieve Business LiquidITy(TM) can be found at http://bea.com/ .

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