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STUDY QUANTIFIES BEA WebLogic
WORKSHOP PRODUCTIVITY BENEFITS
BEA Systems Inc, a leading application infrastructure software company,
announced results from a new study that finds BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1
delivers significant productivity advantages over IBM WebSphere Studio
Application Developer 5 (WSAD). The study, conducted by Crossvale Inc, found
that BEA WebLogic Workshop helps developers create an application nearly eight
times faster and with almost one-fourth the lines of code written or modified
versus building the same application with IBM WSAD. BEA has dramatically
reduced the complexity of Java to deliver these productivity gains to
developers, helping to lower costs of development and long-term maintenance,
improved code quality and increased developer value. Developers can find this
study on dev2dev, BEA's online developer community, at
dev2dev.bea.com/products/wlplatform81/whitepapers/j2ee.jsp.
The study was designed to help developers choose programming methodologies
that help them "do more with less." As such, the report quantifies the
productivity and architecture benefits of using the revolutionary development
framework approach of BEA WebLogic Workshop versus the traditional, low-level
J2EE development approach required by IBM WSAD. By measuring the development
time, developer skill set and lines of code needed for creating Web
applications and Web services, the report confirmed that developers can expect
dramatic productivity and architecture benefits when using BEA WebLogic
Workshop 8.1. Notably, the report found that BEA delivered:
- Faster Development: BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 required 7.7 times fewer
hours implementing an application compared to implementing the same
application as IBM WSAD. A further breakdown showed that BEA's approach
resulted in significant advantages when developing Web services (88 times
faster), business logic (8.8 times faster), and Web applications (3.2 times
faster). The study also revealed that complex tasks such as asynchronous,
message-oriented programming were accomplished with simply a few mouse clicks
in BEA WebLogic Workshop
- Fewer Lines of Code: BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 required 3.7 times fewer
lines of code than the same application built on WSAD. The study found that
BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 dramatically reduces costs and increases application
quality by providing an architectural framework that enables developers to
focus on writing business logic code and leverage reuseable enterprise-class
architectures
- Increased Developer Value: The framework approach offered by BEA WebLogic
Workshop 8.1 allows J2EE gurus to focus on architecture of enterprise-class
applications, while corporate developers with a greater variety of backgrounds
can implement business and presentation logic. By greatly simplifying the
skill sets required of developers, the development framework makes every
developer more valuable.
"Time to market and quality should be every developer's imperative and value
proposition," said Jason Sharp, co-founder and managing partner of Crossvale.
"Our research shows that the development framework approach offered by BEA
WebLogic Workshop demonstrates a considerable productivity and quality
advantage. This advantage produces another benefit as well: a significant
increase in the value of developers who are able to fully leverage J2EE using
the framework approach."
"BEA is on a mission to reduce the cost and complexity of routine J2EE
development tasks for developers," said Byron Sebastian, vice president and
general manager of BEA WebLogic Workshop and Portal for BEA Systems Inc. "As
part of this goal, BEA WebLogic Workshop consists of a unified programming
model across all development, integration and portal projects, a standards-
based framework that lets developers optionally bypass repetitive and complex
J2EE infrastructure coding, and a service-oriented development approach --
giving developers the underlying power to rapidly build applications that
won't break."
The comprehensive study was commissioned by BEA and designed and executed
independently by Crossvale Inc, a provider of J2EE technology solutions.
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