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January 31, 2006 | Comments: (0)

BEA to ship Eclipse-based developer tool

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BEA Systems on Wednesday plans to announce availability of BEA Workshop Studio 3.0, which will serve as the promised Eclipse-based version of BEA's developer tool.

"This is actually our Eclipse-based tool, the core of which comes from our acquisition of M7," last September, said Bill Roth, vice president of BEA's Workshop group.

Another highlight of Workshop Studio 3.0 is support for the EJB3 (Enterprise JavaBeans) specification for object persistence.

"The importance of this [product] is it shows the growing importance of the EJB3 persistence standard. We see Java developers clearly embracing EJB3 as their model of building with server objects," Roth said. "This product gives developers a head start on learning a technology that won't final until Sun [Microsystems] finishes the specs some time later this year."

Also critical to version 3.0 is that it is the first major tool to support the Spring framework, Roth said. "One of the criticisms of J2EE in the past is that it's been too hard to write server-side applications. The Spring framework was a response to that; it's an easy way to write enterprise Java applications using Plain Old Java Objects," or POJOs, Roth said.

The full-featured version of Workshop Studio 3.0 costs $899. Abbreviated versions, lacking functions such as object-relational mapping via Hibernate, are priced at $499.

Posted by Paul Krill on January 31, 2006 02:43 PM

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