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Technology Stocks : BEA Systems (BEAS) - Undiscovered Growth Stock -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas DeGagne who wrote (929)	11/16/1999 8:53:00 PM
From: Bradley W. Price	Respond to of 2477

With the caveat that I am not an expert, quite frankly, this review sounds like that done by a PC dweeb rather than a system manager. The negative portions follow: Writing code was another story, however, because WebLogic includes no code editing, compiling or debugging tools. The only tools included are an EJB Deployment Wizard that helped us build EJB (Enterprise Java Bean) 1.0 descriptor files (see screen) and a Zero Administration Client publishing wizard that nicely packaged our Java applications or applets for easy client download and installation. WebLogic offers an integration tool kit for Symantec Corp.'s Visual Caf‚, and BEA officials promise similar menu integration for IBM's VisualAge for Java later this month. (Why do you need to include this functionality within weblogic when you have an agreement with Symantec to provide it via Visual Cafe?) WebLogic's management tools were similarly lacking, offering only rudimentary performance tuning and operational monitoring features and no support for SNMP or any enterprise management systems. With the exception of BEA's Tuxedo transaction monitor, which is directly supported, WebLogic has no native connectivity to enterprise resource planning, mainframe or transaction monitoring systems. (I'm not sure what Tuxedo doesn't provide that the author thinks you need) Indirect connectivity to these systems is available through the purchase of BEA's WebLogic Enterprise, a non-EJB, CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture)-based application server. Senior Analyst Timothy Dyck can be reached at timothy_dyck@zd.com. Overall, I think BEAS is properly focusing on their core competencies and getting best of breed app support elsewhere (ie visual cafe). bp