Insider Update: Eclipse, Web Tools Platform Project, and Workshop

In February of 2005, BEA announced a new change in strategy by joining the Eclipse Foundation as a Board Member and Strategic Developer. BEA is leading the Web Tools Platform (WTP) Project and has proposed a new Language Development Tools Project. BEA has already begun to contribute to the Eclipse community with the merging of AspectWerkz and AspectJ, demonstrating the commitment to building in deep levels of support for Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP). With this, BEA will implement its WebLogic Workshop 9.0 Product using the Eclipse tools framework. What does this mean for BEA and for web tools in the future? Come hear BEA and Eclipse experts talk about the direction that the industry is moving and product roadmaps for what to expect next. Specific details to be discussed include BEA’s relationship to open source and standards organizations, BEA’s development model and strategy, and a special preview roadmap of BEA’s work with Eclipse.

Presenter:

Pieter Humphrey is a Senior Product Marketing Manager for BEA. Most recently Pieter was a Principal Systems Engineer from the field sales force and focused on major accounts in the bay area. He has provided extensive mentoring and instruction for clients on BEA's WebLogic product line of Server, Portal, Integration and Workshop since joining BEA in 2001. Working with core IT and networking, Java, and J2EE since 1998 provided him with a solid background for working with enterprise tools ranging from integration to portal, development tools to management tools. Pieter is frequently a speaker at trade events, customer events and Bay Area user groups.

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