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BEA Systems, a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, and the Eclipse Foundation, an open source community focused on providing a universal development platform, today announced that BEA is joining Eclipse as a Board Member and Strategic Developer. As part of this commitment, BEA has offered to lead the Web Tools Platform (WTP) project, an offer that was accepted today with the election of a BEA senior architect to the WTP Project Management Committee as co-lead. In addition, BEA is proposing a new Language Development Tools project and is also merging its open source AspectWerkz project with the Eclipse AspectJ project. In these roles, BEA can be an important participant in helping to guide the Foundation's technological innovation and drive Java industry convergence around the Eclipse development platform. Through combined leadership and technology, BEA and Eclipse aim to strengthen both the Eclipse and BEA communities, as well as the Java community at large. "BEA has already made valuable contributions to Eclipse via existing projects. Now with this major strategic commitment to a leadership role and with new product plans related to working to converge important elements of BEA technology with the Eclipse platform, BEA is helping to realize its goal to advance and strengthen the Java community," said Mike Milinkovich, director of the Eclipse Foundation. "As a leader in the industry, the contribution of BEA's vision, talent and resources can be incredibly important to ensuring the success of our platform moving forward. From its impressive customer base to its wealth of experience in delivering Java tooling innovation, BEA can bring a great deal of power and muscle to our efforts." "Joining Eclipse as a Board Member and Strategic Developer is a great opportunity. Eclipse is the fastest growing and most prevalent tools platform in the Java community and BEA offers leading technology to help provide ease of use and help improve time to value for service-oriented development in the enterprise. By joining forces, this can be a win-win-win situation - for our customers, for the Eclipse Community and for Java users everywhere," said Wai Wong, executive vice president, products, BEA Systems. BEA to Play Leadership Role in Eclipse As a Board Member and Strategic Developer, BEA plans to participate at the highest levels available in the Eclipse Foundation. While the Eclipse Foundation currently counts 91 companies in its membership, only eight of these companies are Strategic Developers. BEA has also been elected to lead the Web Tools Platform (WTP) project, which develops tooling infrastructure to support J2EE and Web-enabled application development. BEA plans to incorporate WTP capabilities into future releases of BEA WebLogic Workshop. BEA Technology Converges with Eclipse In addition to demonstrating its commitment to the Eclipse Foundation through leadership, BEA today also announced new product plans representing a major technology commitment to Eclipse. Code-named "Daybreak," the next version of BEA WebLogic Workshop, the company's integrated development environment, will be designed to support the Eclipse framework. Daybreak will offer a broad enterprise development environment comprising Workshop's award-winning ease-of-use features and high-productivity application framework for the development of service-oriented architectures, along with the high-quality Eclipse tooling framework and an array of Eclipse plug-ins.