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[ANN] EclipseLink 1.0 Released

2008-07-10T03:30:08Z

EclipseLink 1.0 Released

The Eclipse Persistence Services project (EclipseLink) has completed its incubation phase and the 1.0 release is available for download. This release completes the transition of the persistence functionality developed in Oracle TopLink to being fully developed and maintained as an open source project at Eclipse. This also signifies the first release of a project under the recently created top-level Runtime (RT) project at Eclipse.

EclipseLink delivers persistence services for efficiently working with Java and relational, XML, and non-relational data sources. The highlights include:

· Compact: Standard Java distribution is composed of a single implementation jar and utility jars that can be used in any Java SE, IDE, or Java EE hosted environment.

· OSGi: EclipseLink is also available as a set of OSGi bundles. This distribution offers out of the box support for compliant OSGi implementations, as well as Equinox-specific extensions.

· JPA: Superior Java Persistence API 1.0 implementation with many advanced features offering greater flexibility and performance for mapping, caching, querying and transaction processing.

· MOXy: Object-XML binding support with JAXB, offering highly flexible mappings as well as a meet in the middle configuration approach.

· SDO: Service Data Objects 2.1 implementation enabling flexible service integration with dynamic and static models.

· Utils: Migration utilities to assist developers currently using Oracle TopLink or TopLink Essentials in their upgrade to EclipseLink as well as the workbench for compatibility with classic object-relational and object-XML mapping.

A complete index of features and the full user documentation for EclipseLink is available on the Eclipse wiki.

Standards Focused

The mandate of the EclipseLink project is to deliver a set of persistence services that leverage the leading Java standards. In addition, advanced features were added based on user requests but implemented in a way that allows developers to leverage them when needed but not be obstructed by them when they are not needed.

This is particularly true in JPA, where many advanced features are available through JPA persistence unit properties and query hints, in addition to custom annotations and XML. With EclipseLink replacing TopLink Essentials as the reference implementation for JPA 2.0, some of these advanced features will evolve into the specification defined metadata and interfaces. This approach of leading through delivery of advanced functionality, and then contributing back to the standards, is an important aspect of the EclipseLink project.

Growing The Community

The EclipseLink committers understand very well that developing in open source is much more than just providing access to the source code. Building a successful open source project is really about building an active community based on open communication and a transparent development process. We encourage the Java community to try out the 1.0 EclipseLink release and provide feedback. Your contributions and suggestions are valuable to us and will help ensure the project meets your current and future needs.

EclipseLink is currently available directly from the EclipseLink project web site and is also included within the GlassFish and Spring Framework distributions. Going forward, the Oracle TopLink product releases within the Oracle WebLogic Server will also include EclipseLink as its strategic persistence provider.

At present the project has committers from Oracle and Sun but we also have a growing community of users and developers contributing back enhancements. We are eager to expand this community on all fronts to establish the EclipseLink project as the leading persistence solution across Java EE, Java SE, and OSGi.

Technorati Tags: developer, Doug Clarke, Eclipse, EclipseLink, Java IDE, Object Relational Mapping, ORM, TopLink, Web Tools Platform

Independence Day for Workshop for WebLogic 10.3

2008-07-01T07:43:12Z

Oracle Workshop for WebLogic 10.3 is celebrating independence day. This year, I'm personally celebrating a long awaited declaration: that this upcoming release introduces a complete freedom from pricing, licensing and registration of any kind. Complete freedom for using your favorite dev/test server. Consistent with Oracle's Hot Pluggable initiative, all features of the Eclipse IDE will be freely available on all supported platforms, including websphere, weblogic, tomcat, jboss, jetty and resin.

In addition, JDeveloper and ADF / TopLink runtime users will be supported on Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3, allowing ADF driven application to extend farther into new supported platforms.

Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3 developers who use Eclipse will find updated Workshop plug-ins for developing Java/EE and web services that are bundled with the server:

•Support for new industry standards

•IDE based on Eclipse 3.3 & WTP 2.0

•Support for JDK 6

•Windows Vista support

•XMLBeans 2.3 support

•New Web Services Support

•JAX-WS tooling for Weblogic Server 10.3

•Design/Build/Deploy Support

•Start from Java or from WSDL

•JAX-B support with new JAX-B Wizard

•Create JAX-B types from schema

•Generate ant snippets

•New ClientGen Wizard

•Create Web Service Clients from JAX-RPC & JAX-WS Web Services

•Generate ClientGen ant snippets

•Updated JAX-RPC support for Weblogic 10.3

•Support for EE5 Standards

•New EE5 Project Creation

•Create EE5 EAR and EJB Projects

•Create Web Applications based on new standards

•Servlet 2.5

•Full support for new Servlet spec, including optional web.xml

•JSP 2.1, JSF 1.2, JSTL 1.2

•Updated wizards and tag support for new standards (SunRI and Apache myFaces)

•WYSIWYG and AppXRay support for Universal Expression Language

•New Weblogic Server Value Add

•Full Deploy/Debugging support for WLS 10.3

•Continued backward compatibility for WLS 8.1, 9.2, 10.0

•Remote Deployment

•Supports WLS 9.2, 10.0, and 10.3

•Support for new WLS Fast Swap

•New Editors and Wizards for Weblogic Server Deployment Descriptors

•Application upgrade tools for older versions of Weblogic

Adobe Flex & Livecycle, WebLogic Portal, WebLogic Integration, BEA Workshop and AquaLogic Service Bus at Dev2Dev Tech Days

2008-03-20T21:56:10Z

Register now to Join the Java2SOA Revolution

http://dev2dev.bea.com/techdays/register.html

The explosion of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has sparked a revolution in the Java community. Today's IT environments demand that developers master both best-of-breed Java development and, increasingly, the ability to leverage new services-focused tools. Using an adaptable, proven foundation for your services is more significant than ever: creating rich presentation and elegant back-end services is faster when using tools and servers that are pre-integrated by design. Extending Java2SOA is radically changing the developer's relationship with business and the way they work together on a day-to-day basis.

Learn how to take advantage of the Java2SOA revolution by joining fellow developers for this complimentary, half-day seminar brought to you by BEA's Dev2Dev program.

Key Benefits

Discover how a pre-integrated suite can quickly extend Java to SOA
Use Java and SOA at the presentation, integration, business logic, and service bus levels
Extend your Eclipse knowledge into new and updated BEA technologies
Watch live demos in a no-fluff-just-stuff atmosphere

Agenda

All content presented at the Dev2Dev TechDays, including presentations and live demonstrations, is designed by developers to help you enhance your understanding of all the tools necessary to extend Java2SOA.

Below is an overview schedule for the day:

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM	Continental Breakfast & Registration
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM	BEA Welcome and Presentation Developing POJO components Extending POJO components into Java Web Services Visually creating and testing integration process designs Integrating processes into existing systems
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM	Break
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM	BEA Presentation Using Eclipse to Proxy enable Java Web Services Configuring a proxy without development Developing custom portlets in the presentation layer Linking portlets into integration processes
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM	Adobe presentation Developing a Rich UI with Flex in Eclipse Connecting a Flex UI to the back-end SOA
11:45 AM	Summary & Q&A
12:00 PM	Close

Continue the Revolution at home

Get Hands On after the event at your own pace, using a complete tutorial that incorporates the demo from the seminar. You will have access to the complete source & documentation on dev2dev.bea.com!
Win free BEA / Adobe software: We'll be raffling off 5 copies of BEA Workshop Studio + Adobe Flex Builder 2 bundle per event!
Access to free online education: BEA is pleased to offer attendees a complimentary online self-study to help you get the most out of the Dev2Dev TechDays events. When you register for a TechDays event, you will receive registration information in your confirmation e-mail. Select a course from the menu and follow the instructions from the link, choosing one of the following:
- BEA Workshop 10: Core Features
- BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 3: Essential Concepts
- SOA: Strategic Concepts and Principles!

Join the BEA Dev2Dev Community today!

Bi-Annual Framework Survey

2008-03-05T00:26:24Z

It’s that time of the year again, folks. Twice a year, the Workshop Group does a Framework survey to gauge the popularity of frameworks within the Java community. Could you please help us out by participating in this study? Below is the link:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=5AQ4VAbYWzrZzGiXBAf4FQ_3d_3d

By giving us your feedback, you can enter into a drawing for a $100 Amazon Gift Certificate AND get a free discount for purchasing Workshop Studio!

Technorati Tags: developer, framework, java, survey, technologies

New, developer - oriented features in BEA WebLogic Portal 10.2

2008-03-03T18:59:58Z

BEA just released BEA WebLogic Portal 10.2 which has a richer integration with Eclipse 3.2.2. We’ve created a bundled together build of our development capabilities that come with WebLogic Portal called WorkSpace Studio 1.1 . Highlights include the Disc API based on Dojo toolkit for developing Web-2.0 interactions in portals. Disc has special namespacing so it won’t interfere with your native code. It also allows client side interportlet communication and the ability to manipulate the portal framework from the client.

You can download BEA WebLogic Portal 10.2 then be up & running about 10 minutes after if finishes downloading. http://commerce.bea.com/showproduct.jsp?family=WLPORTAL&major=10.2&minor=0

Out of the box there are demos ready to go with many skins and an Ajax driven Web 2.0 portal interface.

You can test drive it without downloading online at http://wlp.bea.com

The goal of BEA Workshop 10.2 – WebLogic Portal 10.2 Enablement is to integrate BEA Workshop Studio's GEF based capabilities into all of the WebLogic Portal 10.2 eclipse editors.

Highlights for WebLogic Portal 10.2 developers:

- Integration of the WebLogic Portal taglibs into the Studio JSP editor will improve product consistency, enhanced grouping, filtering, animation, palette commands

· WLP tags appear in Studio palette under “Tag Libraries” group

· Custom dialog editors when dropping WLP tag onto JSP design/source views

· Tag integration with JSP editor source/design views.

· Tag code completion in JSP editor source view.

· Tag integration with Smart Editors in Properties view.

· Ctrl-Click tag navigation support in JSP editor source view.

· Tag validation in JSP editor source view and Problems view.

· F1 help available for tags in JSP editor source view.

- New “Clipper” portlet type supported in portlet wizard.

· The clipper portlet clips a portion of web content returned by a URL.

· The clipper portlet will have an initial portlet preference definition for “remoteUrl”.

Enhanced content querying

· Cm_value property now supported in content search query when creating content selectors and placeholders.

- Improved Proxy Portlet Registration

- Proxy Portlet Registration dialog now contains a checkbox for storing registration properties locally on consumer in wsrp-producer-registry.xml file. This has the following benefits:

· In case the producer is unable to provide registration properties. This can happen if producer is not 10.2+ or does not support WSRP registration property extension.

· When modifying a registration, the previous registration properties/values will be listed.

- IDE support for encrypted User property sets

· User Property Set wizard and Property Editor now support the “Enable Encryption” property. When “true”, the user property set is encrypted in the user profile database when the property set is published. This option is irreversible once the property set is published

- Portal Desktops can be enabled with JavaScript

· “Disc Enabled” - Enables the desktop with the BEA Disc (Dynamic Interface Scripting) JavaScript environment. This environment makes some JavaScript libraries available for use (i.e. the XML Interaction Engine and client-side portal contextual objects). If DVT is enabled, then Disc is implicitly enabled by default (and non-editable); otherwise, Disc is disabled by default.

· “DVT Enabled” - Enables the desktop with the ability to dynamically move placeables from one placeholder to another. Implicitly enables the BEA Disc JavaScript environment. Default = false.

- Portlet re-factoring

· Supported when copying portlets to same/different folder using the Project Explorer or Package Explorer. All portlet types supported.

- New Content Display Template Wizard

· makes it easier for users to create display templates for use with the Content Presenter portlet.

· The wizard dynamically allows user to choose content types/properties defined in a content repository and then prepares a display template/jsp file that displays these property/value pairs in tabular format.

· The user can then customize the generated jsp to achieve the desired final presentation

- Improved ANT build script generation

· Previously, in 10.0 the wlp-antlib.jar would reside in the deploy directory. The SystemClasspathScriptCustomizer eclipse ext. pt. was used to customize the classpath references of the generated ant script to point to the library.

· In 10.2, the wlp-antlib.jar must reside within one of our eclipse plugins (com.bea.wlp.eclipse.project) and is copied out to the local directory wherever the ANT script is generated. The ANT script references all libraries from that local \workshop-lib directory.

We look forward to your feedback on this release!

Technorati Tags: BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA Workshop, BEA Workshop for WebLogic, Eclipse, EJB3, Hibernate, Java Debugging, Java IDE, Java Server Faces, JRockit, JSP, JSP Debugging, openJPA, Struts, WebLogic Portal, Web Sevices, Web Tools Platform, WebLogic, WebLogic Server, Workspace Studio, Workspace360

The fastest Workshop release ever - BEA Workshop 10.2 is now available

2008-02-29T20:03:04Z

BEA Workshop 10.2 is here and it’s faster than ever. Developers will experience noticeable speed improvements in server start, deployment, incremental & clean build, and the stability of 885+ resolved software defects.

This release updates BEA Workshop for WebLogic, BEA Workshop Studio with Adobe Flex Builder 2, and BEA Workshop for JSP.

Download your free trial or free copy and give it a try!

Also, the tuxedo control is back, and is shipping with this release.

For anyone unfamiliar with the WorkSpace Studio Laucher initiative, please visit the FAQ on edocs to understand this change that BEA has implemented as a step on the road towards Workspace 360.

Here are some highlights of what you’ll experience in terms of improved performance:

Performance vs. BEA Workshop 10.1

Operations with SUN JVM:

Server Start

24%, 22%, 40% improved across sml, med, lrg app

Deployment

From a fresh project deploy a non-trivial application for the first time.

8%, 42%, 73% improved across sml, med, lrg app

Add method to and deploy web service

38% improved for large app

Add an action to a Page Flow then Run on Server.

2%, 22% improved for med, large app

Edit Page Flow by adding reference to a Service Control in a utility project then Run on Server.

2%, 30% improved for med - large app

With SUN JVM doing incremental build

Add action to a Page Flow

29%, 41%, 56% improved across sml, med, lrg app

Add method to Web Service

33%, 51%, 55% improved across sml, med, lrg app

Edit XMLBean by adding two complex types to schema that reference each other

18%, 43%, 65% improved across sml, med, lrg app

Add callback to Web Service

25%, 47%, 65% improved across sml, med, lrg app

Clean Build

20.23% improved with large application

Operations with JROCKIT JVM:

Server Start

15%, 23%, 25% improved across sml, med, lrg app

Deployment

From a fresh project deploy a non-trivial application for the first time.

9%, 56%, 93% improved across sml, med, lrg app

Add method to and deploy web service

7%, 71% improved for med, large app

Add an action to a Page Flow then Run on Server.

66% improved for large app

Edit Page Flow by adding reference to a Service Control in a utility project then Run on Server.

1%, 64% improved for med - large app

With JROCKIT JVM doing incremental build

Add action to a Page Flow

38%,90% improved across med, lrg app

Add method to Web Service

11%, 50%, 96% improved across med, lrg app

Edit XMLBean by adding two complex types to schema that reference each other

33%, 48%, 93% improved across sml, med, lrg app

Add callback to Web Service

26%, 40%, 90% improved across sml, med, lrg app

Technorati Tags: Adobe Flex Builder, BEA Tuxedo, BEA Workshop, BEA Workshop for JSP, BEA Workshop for WebLogic, BEA Workshop Studio, Eclipse, EJB3, Flex, Flex Charting, Hibernate, Java Debugging, Java IDE, Java Server Faces, JRockit, JSP, JSP Debugging, openJPA, Struts, Workspace Studio, Web Sevices, Web Tools Platform, WebLogic, WebLogic Server, Workspace360

BEA at EclipseCon 2008

2008-02-13T19:28:30Z

So we're sponsoring GOLD this year! We're also bringing back Robert M. Lefkowitz, a.k.a the R0ML! He will be speaking on:

How to Write Video Games and Create Shareholder Value in Enterprise IT

Information doesn't want to be free; information wants to be *timely*. And the more timely you can make it, the more valuable it is. The opportunity for an enterprise IT department is to provide access to all information as close to instantly as possible -- to make the "user experience" of corporate information approach that of a video game. This is a series of strategies for defining a project, getting it funded, designing it, and deploying it -- and in the process, creating that video game experience.

BEA Session Overview @ EclipseCon 2008

Scott Lewis - Using ECF for Lightweight Distributed Team Collaboration
Markus Hirt - JRockit + Eclipse = True
Jess Garms and Walter Harley - Java annotations
Konstantin Komissarchik -

Rob Frost - Java EE Module Dependencies and the Java Build Path
Ji-Hye Rhim - SIP Programming tool Based on template

BEA Staff will be showcasing technology in the BEA booth:

1: WebLogic Event Server

2: BEA Workshop / Workspace 360 (workshop GA = 2/29)

3: AquaLogic Data Services Platform

4: AquaLogic Service Bus

5: BEA WebLogic Portal

6. BEA WebLogic Integration (GA = 2/29)

7. BEA Guardian

8. jRockit Mission Control

Check the conference tracker page for further updates.

See you at EclipseCon!

Technorati Tags: Eclipse, EclipseCon

Silicon Valley User Group Meeting

2008-01-08T23:42:51Z

For all those in the bay area, you are all welcome to attend the Silicon Valley BEA User Group meeting.

Join us to learn more about extending Eclipse :

* across popular open source projects, BEA and Adobe technologies

* with WYSIWYG designers for Struts, Tiles, JSF, and Adobe Flex

* building JPA applications using Hibernate and Kodo

* automatic dependency analysis and visualization using AppXRay

You can register for this event here

Technorati Tags: java user group, JUG

Workshop and Flex Builder: Better Together (cheaper too)

2008-01-08T20:27:36Z

BEA - Adobe Momentum continues

Be the first to check out James Ward's article on Adobe DevNet "Using BEA Workshop Studio and Java to create Flex-based RIAs".

Flex applications can be fully integrated with other WebLogic® and AquaLogic® products, using the technology like Adobe Livecycle Data Services, and the new open source blazeDS.
James discusses how to use the bundled BEA Workshop Studio and Flex Builder 2 with BlazeDS, an Adobe open-source Java remoting technology for Flex that facilitates communication. He also walks you through the steps to creating an RIA using Java for the back-end business logic and Flex for the front-end view of the application. BEA Workshop Studio and Flex Builder 2 are used to create a simple Java mid-tier and a simple Flex front-end for that mid-tier.

You can learn more about Flex, Java and Workshop at http://www.bea.com/flex, as well as find promotional codes that discount the bundle to as low as $399.00 until Jan 31, 2008.

Stay on the lookout at both Adobe DevNet and BEA Dev2Dev for related content!