Standards can drive revolutionary changes in technology: consider the impact
that SQL has had on the database market, or consider that the World Wide Web
was launched by the combination of HTML, HTTP, URL, and SSL. Our belief is
that protocol standards (XML, Web services) and programming standards (Java
and the .NET alternatives, XML Query, etc.) will have a similarly profound
impact on integration.
Integration encompasses a broad range of information technology (IT) needs
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Enterprise application integration (EAI): Directly interconnecting two or
more business applications over intranets (that is, behind corporate
firewalls) Business-to-business integration (B2BI): Directly interconnecting
the business applications of one company with those of a busine... (more)
Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) has achieved critical mass as a platform for
developing Web applications. Microsoft's .NET is also a strong contender in
the Web world. Today both J2EE and .NET are evolving (via XML, Web services,
etc.) from development-only platforms into development and integration
platforms - a change that will transform enterprise application integration
(EAI) and bu... (more)
Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) has not yet achieved critical mass as a Web
application platform. Today, for example, over 10,000 customers are using BEA
WebLogic, the J2EE application server market leader. However, it's a safe bet
that J2EE will eventually reach critical mass.
Microsoft's .NET is also a safe bet to get to critical mass. No other Web
application infrastructure software pl... (more)
BEA believes that both open-source projects and commercial Java platform
products like WebLogic are crucial to the health of the Java ecosystem.
That's why WebLogic runs on top of, incorporates, contributes to, and creates
open-source technologies.
Even open-source projects that provide functionality similar to WebLogic tend
to be best used in a different part of the Java ecosystem than t... (more)
Standards can redefine a marketplace consider the impact that SQL had on
the relational database market. Standards can also create new markets
without HTML and HTTP, there would be no World Wide Web.
My thesis here is that Web services and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) will
have a similarly dramatic impact on application integration advancing the
industry from point-to-point inte... (more)