BEA WebLogic Server Previews Service Component Architecture in Support of Next Generation SOA and Application Composition

Leveraging Java EE 5 Features for the Construction and Deployment of SOA

Services

Core News Facts

1. BEA announces a technology preview of a Service Component Architecture

(SCA) runtime implementation for the forthcoming WebLogic Server 10.3.

2. SCA is designed to simplify integration of service components

constructed with heterogeneous technologies and languages in support of

composite application assembly.

3. SCA supports BEA's Genesis initiative, which promotes the convergence of

business process management (BPM), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and

enterprise social computing to simplify delivery of dynamic business

applications.

    SHANGHAI, China, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BEAWorld -- BEA
 Systems, Inc. ( BEAS), a world leader in enterprise infrastructure
 software, today announced a preview release for WebLogic Server(R) 10.3 of
 SCA, a set of open standards that can help enable developers to leverage
 SOA to assemble composite applications from heterogeneous components. This
 release demonstrates BEA's commitment to helping the Java EE developer with
 development and deployment of enterprise-grade SOA projects. BEA SCA
 tooling will be supported through BEA Workshop(TM) and the ability to store
 SCA components in an enterprise repository with AquaLogic(R) Enterprise
 Repository.
 
     SCA is designed to facilitate highly adaptable IT by wrapping and
 standardizing heterogeneous components, making them more easily discovered
 and connected. It will be deployed as part of BEA WebLogic Server, allowing
 organizations to draw upon the server's management, reliability and
 scalability benefits for SCA.
 
     "BEA has taken the industry a huge leap forward by making application
 composition viable," said Guy Churchward, vice president of WebLogic
 products, BEA Systems, Inc. "We are focused on helping to enable customers
 to realize the full potential of WebLogic products and SOA. BEA established
 itself as the enterprise Java leader in being the first major vendor to
 market with Java EE 5, and we're doing it again for application composition
 with Service Component Architecture."
 
     In support of BEA's Genesis, a dynamic business application platform
 initiative that promotes the convergence of SOA, Business Process
 Management (BPM) and enterprise social computing, SCA can provide the
 ability to compose applications by assembling components without writing
 code. SCA is a fundamental enabling technology designed to wrap and
 standardize heterogeneous components making them more easily discovered and
 connected -- characteristics that are critical for composition.
 
     SCA can help enable organizations that have invested in SOA to take
 full advantage of the architecture. With application composition, building
 SOA services is faster, easier and more reliable; a process manageable not
 only by developers but business users as well.
 
     BEA SCA is designed to enable organizations to rapidly assemble SOA
 services through:
 
 

     -- Reduced Complexity.  Develop distributed service networks using plain
        old Java objects (POJOs). The complexities of transport level APIs are
        handled by SCA metadata and wire-up facilities.
 
     -- Tooling support.  BEA Workshop offers a single tool for users to find,
        create, submit, view, and configure SCA components.  The Eclipse plug-
        ins allow direct access to BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository from
        within the environment, allowing users to work with SCA artifacts
        quickly and easily.
 
     -- Repository capabilities.  BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository promotes
        easy access to SCA components in store for quick assembly.
 
     The SCA runtime technology preview for WebLogic Server is available
 today as a free download. BEA SCA and its tooling and repository support
 will be released in the second half of 2008. For more information, please
 visit http://www.bea.com/weblogic.
 
     About BEAWorld
 
     BEAWorld is the premier event for SOA thought leadership and is
 scheduled to take place in three strategic world markets spanning the
 Americas, Europe and Asia. The conference is designed to provide critical
 insights, hands-on instruction, best-practice strategies and opportunities
 for interaction with like-minded professionals, industry leaders,
 visionaries and expert practitioners.
 
     In addition to highlighting the innovation and tangible business
 results BEA customers have achieved, BEAWorld is the place to find the
 latest information on BEA infrastructure technologies including BEA
 Tuxedo(R), BEA WebLogic(R), BEA AquaLogic(R) and BEA Enterprise 360. This
 year's event will also include a Solutions Showcase, exhibiting the latest
 and most innovative developments from the extensive BEA partner community.
 
     The last of three worldwide events is scheduled to be held in Shanghai
 (Dec. 12-13). The first two events were held in the two following cities:
 San Francisco (Sept. 10-12) and Barcelona (Oct. 2-4).
 
     About BEA
 
     BEA Systems, Inc. ( BEAS) is a world leader in enterprise
 infrastructure software. Information about how BEA is enabling customers to
 transform their business by building a Liquid Enterprise(TM) can be found
 at bea.com.
 
     Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
 
     Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking,
 including the statements regarding the preview release for WebLogic Server
 10.3 of Service Component Architecture (SCA) and the features and benefits
 of SCA as described in detail above. Actual results could differ materially
 from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Risks and
 uncertainties that could cause results to differ materially include risks
 associated with: any unforeseen changes in the technology, standards or
 marketplace for enterprise information integration software; the timing of
 a recovery from any economic and IT industry downturn; any unforeseen
 technical difficulties related to the development BEA's solutions; and any
 software errors related to BEA's solutions. Readers should also refer to
 the risk disclosures set forth in BEA's 10-Q for the quarter ended October
 31, 2007 as filed with the SEC and subsequent reports filed thereafter by
 BEA from time-to-time with the SEC. The forward-looking statements
 contained in this release are made as of the date hereof, and BEA does not
 assume any obligation to update such statements nor the reasons why actual
 results could differ materially from those projected in such statements.
 
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