BEA Systems last week said it plans to join Eclipse Foundation, the open source tools project IBM backed.
BEA Systems last week said it plans to join Eclipse Foundation , the open source tools project IBM backed.
BEA joins Eclipse as a board member and strategic developer partner – a commitment that will cost the vendor about $1.5 million per year in code and development man-hours. As one of its initial Eclipse responsibilities, BEA will jointly take the lead on the Web Tools Platform project, which will creates infrastructure tools to support Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition and Web-enabled application development.
BEA also announced the next version of its own WebLogic Workshop integrated development environment, code-named Daybreak, which will support the Eclipse framework.
Eclipse offers a royalty-free platform for integrating software development tools. Its plug-in-based framework is designed to make it easier for customers to create and use software tools in multi-platform and multi-vendor environments. Microsoft and Sun remain the most prominent Eclipse holdouts.
