WEBGAIN ON THURSDAY detailed a pending version of its WebGain Studio suite of developer tools at the JavaOne developer conference
in San Francisco.
WebGain said the forthcoming version of WebGain Studio 7 will allow the generation of WSDL (Web Services Description Language).
Specifically for the BEA WebLogic application server, WebGain will enable developers to generate Web services, including functionality
such as Stateless Session Beans, Message-Driven Beans, arbitrary Java classes, and composite Web services.
In addition to BEA's WebLogic 6.1 and 7.0, WebGain works with IBM WebSphere 4.0, and .Net-based Web Services, according
to the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company.
A number of tools vendors, in fact, used the JavaOne developer conference this week as a forum to tout their wares.
Borland and Sybase announced that Sybase will resell Borland's JBuilder, as JBuilder 6 Enterprise Sybase Edition, to its
customers. The companies said that Borland's tools will be tightly tied to Sybase's e-business platform, including EAServer
and Enterprise Portal.
Rational Software, based in Lexington, Mass., showed off its Adaptive Test Playback technology, which is a Java testing
technology that the company claims can increase the resiliency of applications as they go through multiple revisions.
Analysts said that as third parties continue to support Java and J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) and developers, in turn,
gain more tools for Web services, the number of Java developers will increase.
Gartner, in Stamford, Conn., predicts that by 2005 there will be 2.5 million developers using Java.
Peter Urban, a senior analyst at AMR Research in Boston, said that as Sun, its partners, and the ISVs provide more tools
to developers, the pieces are falling into place for building and deploying Web services.
"The vendors have got to set up the technologies and tools before people can start building Web services," Urban said.
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