Straight from the BEA JavaOne keynote
BEA will certify and support the open-source frameworks such as Struts and the Spring Framework.
BEA has signed a partnership with Interface21, the company behind the Spring Framework.
This means that developers will receive support via helpdesks and probably SLA's will also
cover these open-source frameworks. The integration with these open-source frameworks will
be available in the next release of the BEA WebLogic Server.
BEA will also support other production deployment environments such as Tomcat and Geronimo
from within the Eclipse BEA plug-in environment. (I'm again happy to be a BEA Technical Director)
Wauw I never would have thought the above open source "products" would be linked to each
other in the same blog post. So is there an Oracle and IBM keynote at JavaOne where Rod will also speak ??!
The only main API which is missing in the BEA portofolio is support for Enterprise Java Beans version 3.
I was hoping to get an announcement that BEA would have acquired an EJB 3.0 company like Solarmetric...
maybe at JavaPolis this year 
This means that BEA developers will now have access to new techniques like Aspect Oriented Programming,
Inversion Of Control and wiring of Beans resulting in a very loosely coupled environment.
Good stuff !!!
-Stephan
PS: Thanks to Gerard Maas
for the great foto's.
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Yes Stephan there is an Oracle keynote,
Thomas Kurian is giving it today (Tuesday) and I hope you'll be able to attend and report on it as well... Some of the announcements are already leaked on theserverside and other sites so I think I can safely post some of the highlights here:
All of this comes on top of the already announced
We choose for standards and contribute accordingly.
Oh yes and by the way, JDeveloper has struts modeling support and our Java container - just as any other - runs struts and spring in case you doubted it... You're probably aware that Oracle has been working with Rod Johnson and Jurgen Hoeller to build the TopLink/Spring integration on the persistence side, and that our JSF components are also running with Spring (demoed in the session given by Duncan Mills from Oracle and Rod Wednesday at 2.45 PM).
But you're right... these kind of announcements and the certainty that the company you're working for (in my case Oracle) is going in the right direction give you a kick.
Re. acquiring Solarmetric, EJB3 is not solely a persistence API. It's also about a standard way to do... dependency injection, declarative transactions, adding eg "listeners" to beans such as: PreUpdate, PostUpdate, ... Solarmetric for as far as I'm aware of is a persistence vendor working towards compliance with the EJB3 persistence spec (feel free to correct if you know more than I do here).
Cheers,
Hugo.
In addition to that, you can find an article on our BEA website refering to an interview with our director of technology at BEA, Jim Rivera.
Check out following link: http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2005/06/interview_jim_rivera.html
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