BEA WebLogic Teams With Apache Tomcat; Company Blending Leading Commercial and Open Source Software

BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS), a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced, as a part of its blended approach to mixing and matching open source and commercial software, that the company plans to offer blended BEA WebLogic management and deployment technologies. The technologies will be designed to provide automated management and production-level support for customers using Apache Tomcat. Instead of utilizing multiple management interfaces, or multiple vendors to resolve development and deployment issues, BEA customers will be able to have access to one of the world's first and only environment designed for blended Apache Tomcat and BEA Weblogic servers.

As a result of the announcement, Apache Tomcat users will be able to take advantage of the BEA WebLogic Console with Apache Tomcat support (scheduled to be available by download at dev2dev.bea.com in November) and its graphical user interface to manage clustered Apache Tomcat instances. In addition, the console will be the only environment designed to allow Apache Tomcat users to drill down into Web applications to see details on servlet info and deployment descriptors. The console will also be designed to support the management of security and start/stop of groups of applications. BEA WebLogic Console will be designed to provide Apache Tomcat users with graphical charting including performance monitoring.

BEA Workshop for Java will be designed to offer unparalleled support for the development of sophisticated Web applications based on open source and industry standard frameworks, including Spring, Struts, Hibernate, Java Server Faces and Java Server Pages, as well as the deployment to Apache Tomcat, BEA WebLogic Server and other J2EE environments.

BEA will also offer new capabilities designed to easily integrate Apache Tomcat with BEA WebLogic Server and help provide users enhanced development and administration capabilities not found in Apache Tomcat. For example, developers will have the ability to completely manage Apache Tomcat instances through the BEA WebLogic Server administrative console. Those instances can include start or shutdown Apache Tomcat instances, monitoring its performance or other functions needed to control a sophisticated Web environment. Another new feature will be designed to allow developers to deploy or manage multiple Apache Tomcat applications and services through the BEA WebLogic Server Console. Security control and performance monitoring via graphical interfaces can also be done for Apache Tomcat instances. In the past, customers had to develop their own administration and management, a time and resource consuming process.

"Developers want the ability to mix-and-match the best components and deployment platforms that give them optimal and unique building blocks to get their jobs done," said Mark Carges, chief technology officer, BEA Systems, Inc. "Apache Tomcat support will be another step in our continued dedication to making application development more efficient and fun so that developers can be more productive. Today's announcement is also designed to help the high number of Apache Tomcat users seeking production-level support."

The ability to blend open source applications with WebLogic Server can help allow developers to quickly turn their frozen IT assets into enterprise liquid assets. By supporting Apache Tomcat, BEA continues to define its role as a leading advocate in the open source community. The company is also continuing its commitment to J2EE. Giving developers the ability to "blend" the best components and deployment platforms is designed to allow them to lower development and maintenance costs while increasing responsiveness to changes in business needs.

For more information about WebLogic Server 9.0, or to download a copy today, visit bea.com/wls.

As a part of the support offering, BEA has partnered for backline support services with Covalent Technologies, a leading provider of products and services for support services for the Apache Tomcat Application Server.

"Covalent and BEA share many enterprise customers," said Mark Brewer, chief executive officer, Covalent Technologies. "We are pleased to expand our partnership with BEA and provide support for Apache Tomcat, which can enable BEA to offer comprehensive, single source support for mixed Apache Tomcat and WebLogic environments."

About Apache Tomcat
Apache Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official reference implementation for the Java servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. The Java servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are developed by Sun under the Java Community Process.

Apache Tomcat is developed in an open and participatory environment and released under the Apache Software License. Apache Tomcat is a collaboration of the best-of-breed developers from around the world. We invite you to participate in this open development project. To learn more about getting involved, please visit http://tomcat.apache.org/getinvolved.html.

About BEAWorld
BEAWorld is the annual application and services infrastructure software technology conference 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 working to make SOA a successful reality, BEAWorld delivers the latest information on infrastructure technologies from BEA including BEA Tuxedo(R), the BEA WebLogic(R) products, the BEA AquaLogic(TM) products, the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform products, and a Partner Showcase to highlight the latest, innovative developments from the extensive BEA partner community. To register or receive more information about the Prague event, please visit http://www.bea.com/beaworld.

Additional events are scheduled to be held throughout the year in the following cities: Tokyo (Oct. 25-26); and Beijing (Dec. 7-8). Prior to the Prague event, BEA held BEAWorld 2005 in Santa Clara, Calif. (Sept. 27-29), London (Oct. 11-12) and Paris (Oct. 13-14).

About BEA
BEA Systems, Inc. is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, providing standards-based platforms to accelerate the secure flow of information and services. BEA product lines -- WebLogic(R), Tuxedo(R), JRockit(R) and the new AquaLogic(TM) family of Service Infrastructure -- help customers reduce IT complexity and successfully deploy Service-Oriented Architectures to improve business agility and efficiency. For more information, please visit bea.com.

Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking, including the statements regarding blended BEA WebLogic management and deployment technologies, their ability to provide automated management and production-level support for customers using Apache Tomcat, the benefits of BEA WebLogic Console with Apache Tomcat support and its scheduled availability, BEA Workshop for Java and its ability to offer support for the development of sophisticated Web applications as described in the release, BEA's ability to offer new capabilities designed to easily integrate Apache Tomcat with BEA WebLogic Server, Apache Tomcat support's ability to improve application development and the ability of BEA's approach to allow developers
to lower development and maintenance costs while increasing responsiveness. 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 the current economic and IT industry downturn; any unforeseen technical difficulties related to the
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