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BEA Systems, a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced the completion and delivery of WebLogic® Platform 9.2, a suite of software and tools including WebLogic Integration that are designed to provide a unified foundation for BEA’s SOA 360º. In addition, the company also demonstrated further execution on its blended strategy by announcing the general availability of three product updates: BEA Kodo™ 4.1, BEA Workshop™ for WebLogic Platform 9.2 and BEA Workshop Studio 3.2.1.BEA SOA 360º platform is designed to deliver a unified Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) foundation for business transformation and optimization that can help both to improve cost structures and grow new revenue streams. BEA SOA 360º platform, which spans three product families – BEA Tuxedo®, BEA WebLogic and BEA AquaLogic™ – is uniquely architected with the newly unveiled BEA microService Architecture™ (mSA™). Unlike other “fused,” monolithic, proprietary middleware architectures, BEA SOA 360º platform will be lightweight and based on native SOA standards that help to make it more open, interoperable, embeddable and naturally extensible with third-party development.
“BEA WebLogic Platform is designed to be the industry’s most rock-solid, unified, and blendable platform for Java enterprise applications,” said Wai Wong, executive vice president, products, at BEA Systems. “WebLogic and ‘blended’ form the underpinning of BEA’s SOA 360° vision. BEA can help enable customers to build SOA solutions on the foundation with the best of both commercial and open-source.”
A key component of BEA SOA 360° platform, BEA’s blended approach is designed to allow developers to mix-and-match open-source and commercial software while maintaining a seamless platform for development, deployment, and administration of Java applications and services. This approach is designed to help developers leverage the latest innovations from the open-source community to create next-generation SOA-based solutions.
About BEA Kodo and BEA Workshop products
BEA Kodo 4.1 is designed to provide support for the new Java Persistence API (JPA) developed via the Java Community Process under JSR 220. JPA is a critical underpinning of the new EJB 3.0 specification of the same JSR and can help simplify the process of persisting Java objects to data stores.
Additionally, in BEA Kodo 4.1, the company is basing its JPA implementation on the same packages found in the Apache OpenJPA incubator project. BEA initiated OpenJPA earlier this year when it contributed a substantial portion of its Kodo product to the open-source community under the OpenJPA name. Kodo was among the first generally available products to implement the EJB 3.0 Java Persistence API.
BEA Kodo 4.1 is also designed to provide full support for JDO 2.0, the latest Java Data Objects (JDO) specification. This is designed to offer developers a choice in persisting Java objects to data stores via either JDO 2.0 or JPA.
BEA Kodo 4.1, in addition to supporting current versions of WebLogic Server and other platforms, will be compatible with the new generation of BEA WebLogic Server, available later this year. Additionally, when Apache releases the 1.0 version of OpenJPA, BEA will extend its 24x7 local language production support to cover it, providing a “one-stop support shop” for IT operations managing heterogeneous open-source and Java EE environments.
Marking its first use of the Eclipse Update Manager as a distribution method, BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform 9.2 is releasing an Eclipse update to its IDE Design Views. The product builds upon its existing integration with Eclipse 3.1 and WebTools 1.0 by extending the baseline functionality into new areas such as visual Web service development and enhanced Beehive Page Flow development.
SOA development and Web service enablement can be greatly simplified with new visual development tools that are designed to shorten development time for standards-based Web services. The new Page Flow overview for Beehive Web applications is designed to provide easy developer navigation as well as documentation on complex Page Flows. Version 9.2 exclusively leverages the popular Eclipse Update Manager for distribution.
BEA is also releasing a new version of Workshop Studio. Version 3.2.1 includes the latest open-source updates of Eclipse 3.2.1, Web Tools 1.5.1 and Spring 1.3.4, as well as new tutorials and documentation to designed to help simplify common procedures.
These product releases are just the latest in a series of steps BEA has taken in execution of its SOA 360° vision and blended strategy. Over the last 18 months, BEA has added support and certification of its products on the Spring Framework, moved to an Eclipse-based IDE and tooling environment with its M7 acquisition, became the first software company in the industry to provide Eclipse tools for the EJB 3.0 persistence interface, won the “Best Commercial Eclipse-Based Development Tool” award at EclipseCon, and opened up Kodo’s Java Persistence APIs via OpenJPA. BEA is also a strategic member of the Eclipse Foundation, currently holding two board seats.
Availability
BEA WebLogic Platform 9.2, BEA Kodo 4.1 and BEA Workshop Studio 3.2.1 will be generally available in Q4 CY2006. BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform is shipping via the Eclipse Update Manager. For more information or to download these products, visit http://bea.com/weblogic
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