Chapter 21. SOA According to BEA
In This Chapter
Bill, Ed, and Alfred at the BEA
Putting SOA to work, BEA-style
Finding out what BEA has to offer
Running a city with BEA's help
A lot of smart software vendors are betting the farm on SOA. This chapter talks about one — BEA.
BEA Knows the Way to San Jose
BEA Systems, Inc., is a company headquartered in San Jose, California, that's focused on the enterprise infrastructure software market; that's to say software used by others to build business applications. BEA has made a major commitment to make SOA the foundation of its future product strategy.
The letters BEA are the first initials of the three individuals that founded the company back in 1995: Bill Coleman, Ed Scott, and Alfred A. Chuang (their current chairman and chief executive officer). The company is among the handful of software firms that generate over $1 billion in annual revenue, a milestone reached in 2004, and BEA claims some 15,000 customers worldwide.
BEA's original product lines were Tuxedo, a distributed transaction processing software suite, and WebLogic, an application suite based on the Java Enterprise Edition platform. Tuxedo was originally developed by AT&T, and its name stood for "Transactions for UNIX, Extended for Distributed Operations." BEA purchased rights to the product shortly after the company was founded and has continued its development since then. BEA acquired WebLogic in 1998. Since that time, BEA has enhanced the product so that it can be used as a Web ...
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