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BEA Announces "Cajun" Competitor To Visual Basic
by Kristin Palitza
BEA Systems has
released a new Java-based programming tool that stands in direct
competition with Visual Basic, Microsoft's
drag-and-drop pre-built software coding product. With BEA's tool--called Weblogic
Workshop and known under the code-name "Cajun" as it was being developed--application
and enterprise developers can share the same code base and therefore increase
development productivity across IT organizations.
"Until now, developers have been forced to choose between ease-of-use and robust enterprise-ready platforms," said BEA VP of engineering and XML pioneer Adam Bosworth. Workshop will also compete against Macromedia's Cold Fusion.
WebLogic Workshop provides an integrated development framework with visual interfaces to Java and J2EE that enables application developers--whether they are trained in COBOL, Visual Basic, or any other procedural-based language--to build enterprise applications on the BEA platform without having to learn object-oriented programming or sophisticated J2EE APIs, BEA explained. Workshop is expected to ship later this summer.
Gartner Group, Inc. analyst Mark Driver said the Workshop launch represents a timely product announcement for "a growing segment of the Java developer community, the rapid application development (RAD) market." The tool set's initial focus is Web services, but Gartner believes that BEA will extend and evolve the product into a general-purpose tool set; for example, user interface design.
Weblogic Workshop is supported on servers running Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Red Hat Linux 7.1, and Solaris 8. Pricing was not available as we went to press.
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