http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/wgroth2/archive/2005/11/the_blended_dev_1.html
BEA Workshop 3.0 makes use of our acquisition of M7 to provide tooling support for
major open source frameworks like:
Struts
JavaServer Faces
Spring (through the use of Spring IDE via separate download)
Hibernate (through BEA Workshop ORM functionality)
So What's News?
There are are two main things to pay attention to in this release. First, we are
adding support for WebLogic Server 9.0. This means we now support the
following environments:
WebLogic 9.0 & 8.1
JBoss
Tomcat
Jetty
WebSphere
Resin
The key thing to note is that BEA is supporting the deployment of applications to
other application servers. In our view, this offers customers an important option.
When a customer's application begins scale up, many times the open source
application containers do not offer the reliability, scalability, and manageability that
WebLogic Server does. BEA Workshop provides a very clean and simple way to
migrate web applications from these containers to an industrial-strength environment
provided by WebLogic Server 9.0.
The second thing to pay attention to is that by supporting other servers and open
source frameworks, BEA intends to provide tools to developers beyond just J2EE
developers, and someday perhaps beyond even the Java language.
We have also dropped the "WebLogic" from the Workshop name. This is for two
reasons: First, we now support other containers. Second, the Eclipse framework will
be the basis for our rich client tools across product lines.
Blended Development
The notion of the Blended Environment is one that is firmly based in Joy's Law, which
loosely paraphrased is "Most of the smart people don't work for you." (This is also
rendered more elegantly "Innovation happens elsewhere"). For many reasons, there is
a huge spike in the innovation in both languages and frameworks. Most of these are
open source. Languages include Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby. Frameworks include the
ones mentioned above. I believe this is happening mainly because innovation happens
in waves. Consider that there was some ground-breaking work on programming
languages done in 1967-1973, namely C and Simula. IBM had PL/1 and derivatives at
this time. Then things stabilized for a while until the 80s and early 90s, when
object-oriented languages like C++, Smalltalk, Objective-C. Then the dust settled
from the language wars, the dominant languages were C++ and Java.
After several years of working with these languages, it became clear there had to be
an easier way to build web applications. It started with CGI scripts written in Perl,
which gave rise to PHP. Python, one of the first OO scripting languages was given
new life by this new paradigm. There are also new languages on the horizon
generating great interest, Ruby.
It is safe to say that no one can predict what the next hot framework will be, but our
new strategy allows us to be ready for it.
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