(July 16, 2003) - BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1™, BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1™, BEA WebLogic Integration 8.1™ and BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1™ are now generally available. Each individual product, including the previously released BEA WebLogic Server 8.1™ and BEA WebLogic JRockit 8.1™, can be downloaded now from www.bea.com, or customers can receive the development versions of the products at no charge for one year as part of the BEA dev2dev subscription program.

BEA's new products are based on a unique software architecture developed by BEA, all based on J2EE, XML, and emerging Web services standards. This architecture offers faster time to value by converging application development and application integration into a unified, simplified, and extensible application infrastructure platform.

BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 is based on a unified architecture that includes new versions of BEA's application server and Java virtual machine, enterprise portal and application development framework, and integration solution. BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 offers a single, unified, easy-to-use infrastructure platform for application development, integration, deployment, and management.

BEA WebLogic Integration 8.1 is a single solution delivering application server, application integration, business process management, and trading partner integration functionality for the enterprise. BEA WebLogic Integration 8.1 provides a unified framework for business integration, simplified production and management, as well as a new architecture for the rapid assembly and integration of applications, business processes, and partner trading networks. It provides a seamless production environment for integration specialists and application developers alike by leveraging BEA WebLogic Workshop development environment and a catalog of standards-based application integration adapters.

BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 provides a unified, services-oriented development environment. Within this environment, IT organizations can create custom Java and Web applications, extend and connect packaged software applications or Microsoft .NET applications to business processes, or develop composite applications or process portals, for example. BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 can increase development and application integration speed and flexibility by a factor of up to 10x compared to alternate technologies.

Lastly, BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 can simplify the production and management of custom-fit portals and will be one of the first portals to support the new Java portlet standard, JSR 168, for portlet-level development, and the new Java content repository standard, JSR 170, for content management system integration. It also offers a new portal design and development environment, and adds new content management capabilities, collaboration, search, Web integration, and native support for wireless communications.

For more information on the new products, visit www.bea.com/products.