Mongoose Technology Delivers Web Services and Portal Life Cycle Management
(Houston, TX) ­ Mongoose Technology has entered into an agreement with BEA Systems to build and maintain enterprise portals that incorporate collaboration Web services. Using PortalStudio Collaboration Web Services and BEA WebLogic Server, companies can incorporate powerful interaction management capabilities into their existing portals and Web sites to increase employee productivity, enhance partner effectiveness, and build customer loyalty. Mongoose Technology will also resell the WebLogic Server and include developer's licenses with PortalStudio.

A 30-day free trial is available at www.portalstudio.com.
www.mongoosetech.com

AltoWeb Announces Expanded Platform Support and Improved Connectivity to Enterprise Systems
(San Diego CA) ­ AltoWeb, Inc. has announced release 2.8 of the AltoWeb Application Platform, with added support for the Linux and AIX operating systems as well as new data connectivity support for webMethods. With this release, AltoWeb offers organizations a more powerful enterprise application production platform.

The AltoWeb Application Platform can now integrate enterprise applications running on most common servers and network platforms supporting Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), including Windows, Solaris Linux, and AIX.
www.altoweb.com

Wily Technology to Deliver Comprehensive Management Solution
(San Diego CA) ­ Wily Technology has announced a comprehensive performance management solution for WebLogic with the addition of Introscope PowerPack for BEA WebLogic Server to the Introscope family of products.

PowerPack for WebLogic works with Introscope and Introscope SQL Agent, Wily's database monitor, to provide a management solution for the WebLogic application environment. It combines Introscope's ability to monitor the performance of production J2EE components such as EJBs, JSPs, and servlets with measurements specific to WebLogic.

Developed with assistance from the BEA WebLogic Development Team, PowerPack for WebLogic is pre-configured to offer instant component-level monitoring of WebLogic Server, including JDBC Connection pools, Execute Threads Queue, HTTP sessions, SOAP Services, and security infrastructure.
www.wilytech.com

WebGain Studio Adds J2EE Depth to BEA Workbench
(San Diego, CA) ­ WebGain, Inc., demonstrated at BEA eWorld that Web services designed in BEA's WebLogic Workbench can be incorporated as components into enterprise Java development projects. With WebGain Studio 7, Web services designed in BEA's WebLogic Workbench will be able to be imported and extended in WebGain Studio and deployed to the BEA WebLogic Server 7.0 Application Server.
www.webgain.com

Mercury Interactive Supports WebLogic Server Apps Management
(Sunnyvale, CA) ­ Mercury Interactive Corporation has announced support for BEA WebLogic Server 7.0. With customized versions of Mercury Interactive's LoadRunner, ActiveTune, the first service designed specifically to tune the performance of production systems, and its Topaz® family of application performance management products, customers can test and manage the performance of their WebLogic applications to ensure optimal scalability and performance before deployment and ongoing availability in production. Using these solutions, organizations can accelerate their BEA WebLogic implementations, identify end-user performance and availability issues, and maximize application performance, often without investing in additional infrastructure.
www-heva.mercuryinteractive.com

Rational Software Announces Support for WebLogic Server 6.1
(Lexington, MA) ­ Rational Software has announced support for BEA WebLogic Server 6.1 with Rational XDE Professional: Java Platform Edition and a new BEA WebLogic plug-in for the Rational Unified Process, simplifying and accelerating the development and deployment of Java and J2EE(TM) applications.

The new process eliminates the gap between software design and development in the Java environment. It offers the ability to deploy Java and J2EE applications directly from Rational XDE Professional to BEA WebLogic Server for execution.
www.rational.com

Precise Delivers SmarTune Technology to Automate Performance Management
(San Diego) ­ Precise Software Solutions has unveiled version 2.0 of Precise/Indepth for BEA WebLogic, the J2EE application component of Precise i3, their comprehensive solution for application performance management. Precise/Indepth for BEA WebLogic helps to ensure optimal performance of J2EE applications as they are deployed into business-critical production systems on BEA WebLogic servers.

The new release delivers Precise's revolutionary new SmarTune technology, which automatically identifies the root causes of J2EE application performance problems and recommends the most appropriate corrective actions. When the performance of production J2EE applications degrades, it automatically alerts IT staff and provides intelligent analysis and recommended actions to resolve the issues before they turn into costly problems that adversely affect business continuity.
www.precise.com