Features

BEA & Eclipse: All in a Day

By Dilip Thomas

BEA has chosen to join the Eclipse foundation. BEA will participate as a top-level "Strategic Developer" member, paying as much as USD 250,000 per year in dues, and ship a commercial product based on Eclipse within one year, according to the Eclipse Foundation. Some of the other BEA/Eclipse developments, all in a day, include:

BEA to Lead Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project

BEA is joining Eclipse as a Board Member and Strategic Developer. As part of this commitment, BEA has offered to lead the Web Tools Platform (WTP) project, an offer that was accepted today with the election of a BEA senior architect to the WTP Project Management Committee as co-lead. In addition, BEA is proposing a new Language Development Tools project and is also merging its open source AspectWerkz project with the Eclipse AspectJ project. In these roles, BEA can be an important participant in helping to guide the Foundation’s technological innovation and drive Java industry convergence around the Eclipse development platform.

BEA 'DayBreak' to Support Eclipse

Code-named “Daybreak,” the next version of BEA WebLogic Workshop, will be designed to support the Eclipse framework. Daybreak will offer a broad enterprise development environment comprising Workshop’s award-winning ease-of-use features and high-productivity application framework for the development of service-oriented architectures, along with the high-quality Eclipse tooling framework and an array of Eclipse plug-ins.

BEA Unveils Plug-ins to Eclipse & Eclipse Project Plans

BEA has unveiled plans for new Eclipse plug-ins for its JRockit JVM, as well as the merger of AspectWerkz into the existing AspectJ Eclipse Project. This merger of technology is designed to provide a single unified platform for aspect-oriented programming. The plans specifically entail:

Eclipse plug-ins for the BEA WebLogic JRockit JVM —creating new Eclipse plug-ins for Java profiling and Memory Leak Diagnosis, based on similar tools distributed with BEA WebLogic JRockit, one the world’s top-performing Java Virtual Machines. JRockit’s built-in functionality is designed to help enable profiling and memory leak diagnosis that can be used in production systems while applications are running at full speed, without material cost to performance. To be distributed to the Eclipse community at no cost, the new plug-ins can provide innovative profiling and memory leak diagnosis functionality for production systems running at full speed.
AspectJ—The recently completed merger of AspectWerkz (part of the BEA JRockit development team) and AspectJ (an Eclipse Project), is designed to provide a single unified aspect-oriented programming (AOP) platform, helping to accelerate the rate of progress in AOP. The delivery of the first combined release, called AspectJ 5, in the first half of 2005, is expected to contain full support for the new features of Java 5, and support for an annotation-based development style in addition to the more familiar AspectJ code-based style. The AspectJ Development Tools (AJDT) for Eclipse is slated to be enhanced to provide support for the annotation style. BEA is building in deep levels of support for AOP in the JRockit JVM.


print	save	email	comment