[news.eclipse.commercial] BEA Workshop 10.1 to release in summer 2007

["Pieter Humphrey" <pieterh@xxxxxxx>]

BEA Strengthens its Lead in Developer Tools Market, Delivering Industry's 
First Blended Development Environment
BEA Workshop 10.1 Combines the Best of Open and Commercial Source into 
All-Inclusive Development Environment; Represents Key Milestone in Company's 
Workspace 360° Vision

Core News Facts

1. BEA Workshop 10.1 is the industry's first All-In-One blended development 
environment.

2. Workshop 10.1 enables best-in-class blending of open source and 
commercial software to build next-generation, service-enabled applications. 
Java EE 5 tooling support helps accelerate and radically simplify 
development.

3. Version 10.1 is an important milestone in the BEA WorkSpace 360° vision

SAN JOSE, Calif. - May 1, 2007 - 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® 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 KodoT, OpenJPA and Hibernate tools for Eclipse. The 
product also includes the unique AppXRayT 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® 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 www.bea.com/workshop. Additional information on Blended development 
can be found at www.bea.com/blended/.



Contact Information
Kelly Clarke
BEA SYSTEMS, INC.
+1-408-570-8526
kelly.clarke@xxxxxxx