BEA's WebLogic Workshop 8.1 and Server 8.1 win recognition from PC Magazine for outstanding features

The WebLogic Workshop 8.1 was awarded the Technical Excellence Award at the 20th Annual Technical Excellence Awards from PC Magazine recently. The magazine recognized it as one of the most revolutionary products of 2003 for setting new standards in technical innovation.

The WebLogic Server 8.1 was rated by the magazine among the industry's top performers and given the "Editor's Choice" honor, after extensive trials and performance tests.

"Our clients have known all along the high-performance and next-generation capabilities of the WebLogic 8.1. The PC Magazine awards only endorse what our clients have been telling us through repeat orders and by recommending WebLogic to others," said Diyaa Zebian, Regional Manager, Middle East and Egypt, eSolutions BEA. "It is a great honor, because it comes from well-informed editors whose knowledge about the market is profound, and whose decisions are based on objectivity and fairness. The two awards recognize BEA's strong commitment to Web application development and to the developer community."

The award-winning WebLogic Workshop 8.1 is an integrated visual development environment and runtime framework that enables developers at all levels to create, test and deploy service-oriented, enterprise-class applications and Web services on the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform.

The WebLogic Workshop 8.1 application framework can abstract infrastructure complexities and create applications using standard J2EE components. It makes it easier to build enterprise class applications for today's real-life enterprise integration scenarios.

While giving the Editor's Choice tribute to WebLogic Server 8.1, the magazine noted: "WebLogic 8.1 is a top contender for any organization running Java-based software. Its impressive potential for scalability, JVM performance, and new emphasis on making J2EE and Web services easier for developers are noteworthy. This is a very deep application server that's easy to run and easy to manage, especially on multiple clusters."

Listing the WebLogic Server 8.1's leading edge features, PC Magazine singled out its configuration wizard that allows setting up several default domains effortlessly. Among other outstanding features mentioned by PC Magazine are WebLogic's Web-based console that offers robust tools for managing J2EE applications. The magazine concludes that BEA WebLogic server has succeeded in making the building of Web services and EJBs easy.