 | What's New? Accelerate Your SOA Initiatives BEA offers products and services that enable enterprises to achieve faster time-to-value for critical business applications using open standards, web services and a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). BEA WebLogic Server® 9.0, code-named Diablo The most powerful, reliable release of the world's leading J2EE application server is the ideal foundation for building SOAs. The Diablo beta is compliant with J2EE 1.4 specs and further extends the latest standards to deliver unparalleled quality-of-service across the enterprise. BEA WebLogic JRockit™ 5.0 JDK Using BEA WebLogic JRockit 5.0 Java Development Kit (JDK), Java developers are able to deploy applications more quickly and efficiently into production, achieving optimal performance through minimal configuration. BEA WebLogic Enterprise Security™ 4.2 The leading-edge foundation for securing your enterprise applications, BEA WebLogic Enterprise Security takes a service-oriented approach. It allows organizations to strengthen security, improve IT efficiency and enhance business adaptability by enabling shared security services, such as authentication and authorization, to be leveraged and re-used across a distributed, heterogeneous enterprise. Mobile Access to Portals BEA is now shipping the MobileAware Interaction Server, which works closely with BEA WebLogic Platform™ 8.1 to provide a mobile presentation layer so that portal users can access the information they need from mobile devices. Apache Beehive Milestones BEA continues its commitment to expanding the Java community with new code releases, expanded platform support and a toolset for Apache Beehive. BEA's M1 code release for Apache Beehive, the lightweight metadata-driven component model that accelerates the development of SOAs, is now available for use in both Apache Beehive open-source development and by BEA WebLogic Workshop™ 8.1 users. |  |  |  | Getting Started Download BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 Download a free development license for BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1. Development licenses are also available. Licenses are valid for one year. Download BEA WebLogic Workshop, Free Edition BEA WebLogic Workshop is a full-featured Java development environment that lets you visually build and assemble enterprise-scale Web services, Web applications, JSPs, portals, EJBs, and business process models on the WebLogic Platform. The Free Edition provides a non-expiring development license, and even supports non-commercial deployments, all for free! Download WebLogic Workshop, Professional Edition BEA WebLogic Workshop, Professional Edition provides the same, comprehensive development functionality as the Free Edition. In addition, the Professional Edition also includes 9x5 developer support and a special license that enables limited-scale, commercial deployments, providing everything you need to develop and deploy WebLogic Platform applications commercially for less than $1,000! Java Controls in BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 Java Controls enable any developer to easily connect to and use any IT asset. Java Controls hide the J2EE complexity in connecting to any asset, and can be used in any Workshop application. With WebLogic Workshop 8.1, developers can create custom Java Controls, or use a host of new Java Controls from BEA partners. |  |