Bolstering development of Web and enterprise J2EE applications in the open source arena, the eclipse Foundation on Monday is set to release Version 1.0 of its Eclipse web tools Platform.

Version 1.0 features the official APIs for the platform, which had been available in previous incarnations with provisional APIs. "We're declaring ourselves ready as a platform for commercial adoption," said Tim Wagner, a project lead for the Web Tools Platform and senior manager on the BEA Systems Workshop team.Web Tools Platform 1.0 will serve as precursor to a planned release of several Eclipse technologies simultaneously next June, via a bundle now dubbed "Callisto."

Vendors can use Web Tools Platform 1.0 as a base offering on which to add value for commercial purposes. BEA plans to implement the Web Tools Platform in its BEA Workshop development platform and equip it with functionality such as facilities for using for the Apache Beehive programming model and extended support for the BEA WebLogic Server application server.

Web Tools Platform 1.0 features no direct support for Microsoft's .Net platform, although developers could use the tools within the platform to develop .Net support.Callisto, to be officially known as Eclipse Platform 3.2, will feature a follow-up release of Web Tools Platform that features J2EE 1.5 tooling, including support for Java annotations, which allows for embedding of comments directly into code.

Source: Infoworld, EclipsePrashanth RaiTag(s):Open+Source, J2EE+Developer