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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 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," Carges said.

Apache Beehive and Apache XMLBeans are supported for deployment on the BEA WebLogic Platform and an essential part of BEA WebLogic Server(R), 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 Server's 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 Workshop's 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 http://www.eclipse.org/. For more information, please visit http://dev2dev.bea.com/ .

About BEA

BEA Systems, Inc. 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(R), Tuxedo(R), JRockit(R), and the new AquaLogicTM 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 bea.com.

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