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BEA Standards WebLogic Workshop Overview

WebLogc Workshop is a Swing-based Java development environment that provides many of the capabilities developers have come to expect from a full featured development environment – great debugging, source editing, project management features, etc. Workshop also includes a standards J2EE based framework that lets developers optionally bypasses repetitive and complex J2EE infrastructure coding, without limiting the underlying power to develop applications the way they want. The Workshop run-time framework generates standard EJB, JMS, and JDBC components.

Workshop lets customers choose for themselves how fully they wish to leverage the productivity features of the WebLogic Workshop application framework. Developers can always build 100% standards-based applications in Workshop that are as portable as any other J2EE application – examples include Java classes, EJBs via the EJBGen tool, portlets based on the JSR 168 specification, etc.

Workshop innovations will be aggressively driven into the standards process and Java community at large. Here are some of the Workshop innovations that have been introduced and how we're driving them back into the standards and Java community at large.

• Web Services: We are currently leading JSR 181 through the Java Community Process (JCP), have garnered unanimous support industry-wide, and will be delivering a public reference implementation of JSR 181. These efforts will result in enhancements to the J2EE platform. The JSR 181 reference implementation will enable cross-container deployment of Java Web Services. Moreover, as additional standards mature (JSR 109 in particular) we’ll ensure JWS files support JSR 109 deployment artifacts.



• Business Process Management: We are leading JSR 207 (Process Definition for Java) through the JCP. This initiative received the 2003 award for the "Most Innovative New J2EE Specification Request" from Sun and the JCP.



• XMLBeans: We've donated key technologies like XMLBeans to the Apache Software Foundation and continue to work openly with other developers in the open source community to further evolve the technology to solve more customer problems.



• PageFlows: We’ve provided a portability kit so you can take any Java Page Flow file (which is inherently an extension of a Struts application) and run it on any servlet container.