Oracle Extends Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware Developer Tools With Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse

Comprehensive Set of Java EE Plug-ins Planned for Eclipse Users

SAN FRANCISCO, May 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- JavaOne --

-- Demonstrating its continued commitment to the Eclipse Foundation and
Open Source Developer Community and furthering its dedication to
providing Java developers productivity with choice, Oracle today
announced the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse, a new component of
Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware.
-- The Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse is planned to provide a set of
certified plug-ins, enabling a development environment designed to
support Java EE standards where Eclipse is the preferred Integrated
Development Environment (IDE) within an organization.
-- To help make application development and deployment easy, regardless of
the toolset employed, the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse is planned
to support development with technologies including:

- Java Enterprise Edition
- Java Standard Edition
- JavaServer Faces
- Web Services
- XML
- Spring Framework
- Struts
- Database Development
- CSS & Javascript

Oracle's Commitment to Eclipse
-- A Strategic Developer and Eclipse Foundation Board Member, Oracle has a
long standing history of active participation in the Eclipse community.
Oracle currently leads several projects including

- JavaServer Faces (JSF) Tools - intended to simplify development and
deployment of JSF applications by providing an extensible tooling
infrastructure and exemplary tools for building JSF-based Web
applications.
- Dali JPA Tooling - intended to support the building of extensible
frameworks to simplify, define, and edit Object-Relational (O/R)
mappings for EJB 3.0 Java Persistence API (JPA) Entities.
- BPEL Tools - intended to add comprehensive support to Eclipse for
the definition, authoring, editing, deploying, testing and debugging
of WS-BPEL 2.0 processes.
- Eclipse Data Tools Platform - intended to extend and support the
ability of DTP users to connect to and work with Oracle database
objects.
- Eclipse Persistence Services (EclipseLink) - recently selected by
Sun as the JPA 2.0 Reference Implementation for JSR 317, EclipseLink
is planned to provide a runtime persistence solution focused on
leading standards and extended functionality needed for enterprise
Java and SOA application development.

Supporting Quotes
-- "As the Oracle Fusion Middleware community of Java developers continues
to grow, so does our commitment to productivity with choice," said Ted
Farrell, chief architect and vice president, Tools and Middleware,
Oracle. "The Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse will enable developers
to leverage their expertise in Eclipse when building applications for
Oracle Fusion Middleware."

Supporting Resources
-- About Oracle Fusion Middleware http://www.oracle.com/middleware
-- Oracle and Eclipse http://oss.oracle.com/oracle-eclipse-projects.html
-- Oracle and Open Source:
http://www.oracle.com/technologies/open-source/index.html
-- The Eclipse Foundation http://www.eclipse.org/

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