Oracle(R) Enterprise Pack for Eclipse Release 11g Now Available

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Continuing to deliver on its commitment to provide Java developers productivity with choice, Oracle today announced Oracle(R) Enterprise Pack for Eclipse Release 11g. This is a free component of Oracle Fusion Middleware designed to help developers leverage their expertise in Eclipse with the comprehensive capabilities of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
Key enhancements in this release include Object-Relational Mapping (ORM), Spring and Web Service tools to help reduce development complexity for Java and database developers targeting Oracle platforms.
The Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse is designed to help organizations where Eclipse is the preferred Integrated Development Environment (IDE) by providing a set of Eclipse plug-ins to help develop, deploy and debug Java SE, Java EE, Spring, ORM and Web Service applications for Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Database.

Enhancements Aimed at Increasing Developer Productivity

In addition to the core Oracle WebLogic Server plug-in, Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse Release 11g adds new features including:
The ability for Eclipse developers to configure, develop and test JAX-WS and JAXB services in Java and experience improved EJB3 and XML integration;
Tools that make it easy for developers to work with relational data in Java, including Oracle Database tools and an ORM Workbench for the Java Persistence API (JPA). With the ORM Workbench, developers can easily generate and edit JPA entities, annotate existing classes, work with relationships and map datatypes. The ORM Workbench also supports EclipseLink, in addition to other JPA providers;
Spring IDE Project and Spring code generation wizards, allow developers to easily work with Spring Beans and generate Spring DAO from existing JPA entities;
Editors and Wizards for common WebLogic Server descriptors, help to decrease the amount of time developers spend looking up documentation and making configuration changes;
Support for multiple versions of Oracle WebLogic Server (8.1, 9.x, 10.x); and,
Continued support for Kodo/OpenJPA applications.
A Strategic Developer and Eclipse Foundation Board Member, Oracle has a long-standing history of active participation in the Eclipse community. Oracle currently leads several Eclipse-based projects including:
JavaServer Faces (JSF) Tools;
Dali Java Persistence Architecture (JPA) Tooling;
BPEL Tools;
Eclipse Data Tools Platform; and
Eclipse Persistence Services (EclipseLink)

Supporting Quotes

“With Oracle Fusion Middleware, developers building rich enterprise applications have a broad choice of tools – from Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse to Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle ADF – all designed to allow them to leverage their current skill set for the utmost productivity,” said Ted Farrell, chief architect and senior vice president, Tools and Middleware, Oracle. “Along with providing one of the largest global developer communities, the Oracle Technology Network, Oracle offers an abundant source of tools and knowledge to make a developer’s job easier.”
“It is great to see Oracle expanding on its Eclipse tools strategy and further contributing to the community,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse foundation. “The Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g release provides a nice complement to the work they are doing in the Web Tools Platform Projects, which includes the Dali project, the JSF tools project, the Java EE tools project, and the EclipseLink project.”

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LOMBOZ 3.3 Released, Eteration and OW2 Announce the Availability of OW2 Lomboz 3.3 Providing New Features for SOA, Enterprise Portals and Web Development

Eteration and OW2 announce the availability of OW2 Lomboz™ 3.3, this all-inclusive package with features addressing SOA, BPEL, and Enterprise Portals also includes the latest version of eXo Platform and Liferay Portals.

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Lomboz™ 3.3 includes all new editors for BPEL, BPEL runtime support with Apache ODE, as well as editors for Apache Struts, Spring Beans and Hibernate.

With this release, Lomboz provides an IDE that has tools for Struts, JSF, Portals, JPA, Databases, Hibernate, Spring Framework, BPEL and of course Java EE development with EJBs, Servlets and JSPs. Lomboz™ 3.3 also contains tools for the popular Apache Struts Web framework that makes working with struts XML configurations easy.

Lomboz 3.3 will be available in the form of Cloudsmith™ “virtual distros,” which streamlines the process of downloading and assembling all prerequisites and third-party packages. Lomboz 3.3 will also be available as conventionally packaged downloads. By choosing the virtual distro option, the entire Lomboz 3.3 environment will be automatically retrieved and assembled on your local machine.

Over the last three years, OW2 Lomboz™ has had over 3 million downloads and is well established in its fifth consecutive year at the top of OW2’s downloads.

“Eteration continues to show its commitment to OW2 Lomboz™, Eclipse Foundation and Open Source Technology,” said Eteration CEO Naci Dai. “We are building new strategic alliances within Open Source; now including Apache ODE and Eclipse BPEL. The addition of these new features provides the first out-of-the box open SOA tool with support for designing and running BPEL 2.0 processes. In addition, Web development with Lomboz has never been better with the latest tools for open application frameworks and standards such as JSF, AJAX, JPA, Spring, Hibernate and Struts, JSR 168 portlet development and extended support for eXo Platform and Liferay Portals.”

“The momentum achieved by Lomboz is extremely gratifying for the OW2 community. Lomboz success illustrates the innovative thrust of the OW2 community, it also demonstrates the power of the open source model in software areas where standardization is a key driver of user adoption.” said Cedric Thomas, CEO of OW2.

Professional support is available from Eteration (http://www.eteration.com) for individuals and enterprises.

The new version is currently available as downloads and from the Lomboz Update Manager.

About OW2 Lomboz™:
OW2 Lomboz™ is a popular integrated development environment (IDE) based on Eclipse Callisto (v.3.2) and targeting Web, Web Services, Java EE™, EJB™, portal and SOA development. Since version 3.0, Lomboz is based on Eclipse Web Tools Platform and provides advanced packaged features that facilitate development and testing of Enterprise Java Applications. Now all Lomboz™ releases are also made available from our Update Site. You can start using Lomboz™ Update Manager in addition to All-in-one-zip files; SDK’s and minimal runtimes are also available from the download site.
More information about Lomboz: http://lomboz.objectweb.org

About Eteration:
Eteration provides enterprise software solutions and infrastructures built on Open Source and standards. A leader in Java Enterprise Technology (Java EE), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Technologies and Object-Oriented Modeling and Analysis; the company prides itself on being a service-oriented company that provides a single source for education, outsourcing, and software solutions. Eteration is a corporate member of OW2, a member of Eclipse Web Tools Platform’s project management committee, leads the Java Standard Tools subproject and is also a provider of tools, developer resources and server infrastructures to Eclipse WTP project.
Eteration continually invests in the research and development of Lomboz™. As recipient of the TUBITAK research grant, the development of OW2 Lomboz™ is funded by the ITEA-OSIRIS project and TUBITAK.

More information about Eteration: http://www.eteration.com

About OW2:
Founded in January 2007 as a result of the merger of ObjectWeb and OrientWare communities, OW2 is an independent industry consortium dedicated to developing open source code middleware and to fostering a vibrant community and business ecosystem. Building on the legacy of ObjectWeb and OrientWare, OW2 federates more than one hundred organizations and 6000 developers in Europe, Asia and the Americas. OW2 hosts over one hundred technology Projects, including Lomboz, Sync4j, eXo Platorm, XWiki, SpagoBI and JOnAS. Several of these projects are combined into market-driven Initiatives, such as the ESB/SOA Initiative and the Business Intelligence Initiative, which facilitate their implementation by systems integrators, OEMs and end-users. A typical global open-source organization, OW2 aims to bring together grassroots communities across all continents through Local Chapters.

More information about OW2: http://www.ow2.org

‘Business Process Management: Building End-to-end Process Solutions for the Agile Business’ available now through Aarkstore Enterprise

No Magic, Inc.®, a leading vendor of architecture modeling software, today announced the release of MagicDraw® UML 10.5, an upgrade of No Magic’s award-winning UML-based architecture tool. MagicDraw 10.5 extends its business process modeling capabilities to export Business Process Execution Language (BPEL 1.1) compliant code from Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) diagram. The new version delivers a brand new integration with ProActivity Business Process Analysis suite, updated NetBeans integration and improved GUI to increase flexibility and convenience using the tool.

No Magic continues its commitment to narrow the divide between business needs and the systems developed to meet those needs by extending a Business Process Modeling offering in its award-winning UML-based architecture tool. The new MagicDraw UML BPEL Export functionality allows the users to export their Business Process Execution Language (BPEL 1.1) compliant code from a Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) diagram. The outputted BPEL code can be used in BEA WebLogic 8.1.

“By leveraging our experience gained implementing the best support of UML and other standards from Object Management Group (OMG) in MagicDraw, we move to provide our customers the most complete standards compliant solution in Business Process area,” said Richard Green, CEO of No Magic.

The new brand integration with ProActivity Business Process Analysis Suite eliminates the gap separating business analysts from application analysts and system designers. Now MagicDraw UML imports static and dynamic structure information from ProActivity business models for instant creation/redesign of IT systems.

In addition to the new business process modeling offerings, No Magic continues to enrich its UML modeling capabilities. This new version delivers GUI improvements that increase the convenience and flexibility of working with MagicDraw UML. To reflect the changes in NetBeans IDE 4.X No Magic has updated the seamless integration with NetBeans IDE. This update allows the most standard compliant UML tool on the market to be used by the users of the latest NetBeans version.

About No Magic

Founded in 1995, No Magic Inc. is headquartered in Allen, Texas with operations worldwide. In 1998 No Magic released MagicDraw UML version 1.0, the first large scale application completely developed in Java, earning Sun’s “100% Java Application” credential. The tool has won numerous awards from the world’s most prestigious developers’ journals. In addition to the continued development of MagicDraw, No Magic, Inc. also provides software development outsourcing, consulting, enterprise architecture, business process, training services from its software development facilities in Kaunas, Lithuania and Bangkok, Thailand.

‘Business Process Management: Building End-to-end Process Solutions for the Agile Business’ available now through Aarkstore Enterprise

BPM, in its various forms, has been available since before the millennium, and in Group’s opinion today’s leading solutions comprise of a mature set of tools, products, and services that are fit for mainstream business use.

Most technology systems continue to be viewed by the business community as inhibitors of progress, rather than as innovative solutions capable of delivering agile operations, Business Process Management is being actively positioned as the exception to this rule. Business professionals continue to struggle with business and technology alignment issues, and are actively searching for business-enhancing technology solutions that are fit-for-purpose and come without the need to undertake major time-constraining redevelopments whenever operational changes occur. BPM, in its various forms, has been available since before the millennium, and in Group’s opinion today’s leading solutions comprise of a mature set of tools, products, and services that are fit for mainstream business use. KEY FINDINGS Business Process Management (BPM), as a product in its own right, has emerged from the competitive influences of the diverse workflow, integration, and re-engineering camps to deliver solutions that allow the intellect of business users to be a key driver of success. During the last two years solutions that operate under the BPM banner have become more functionally inclusive. When used to its best advantage, high-calibre BPM provides a systematic approach to improving business and operational processes. Cost-saving benefits may provide an initial attraction, but it is product quality and persistent usage that will drive the ongoing benefits of BPM. There remains a requirement to address the functional divide between what the BPM software vendors are delivering and what business services users really need from core BPM products. A Business Rules Management System (BRMS) approach to development will reduce the inefficiencies that exist within current development methodologies. The emergence of rules as a subset of BPM is an indication of the growing maturity of the market. Possibly the most important aspect of a rules repository, certainly in respect of the stated promise of BPM, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and BRMS, is the ability for the developer to re-use rules within multiple process deployments. Group positions SOA and its associated integration services as having a crucial role to play in the BPM service delivery picture. Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) promises to keep processes running smoothly, but information overload could end up being counter-productive. BPM continues to struggle with standards and their agreed usage. Fundamentally if the sector cannot reach a consensus on the use of headline standards such as Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) and Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN), there is little chance of it progressing further down the scale.