BEA Systems on Tuesday is unveiling AquaLogic BPM Suite 5.7, which is the first release of the former Fuego business process management (BPM) product since BEA acquired the technology in March. With this release, BEA is attempting to bridge BPM and SOA. Version 5.7 provides browsing and discovery of managed services as well as dynamic binding to services. IT personnel can separate system complexity from business BEA Systems on Tuesday is unveiling AquaLogic BPM Suite 5.7, which is the first release of the former Fuego business process management (BPM) product since BEA acquired the technology in March.With this release, BEA is attempting to bridge BPM and SOA. Version 5.7 provides browsing and discovery of managed services as well as dynamic binding to services. IT personnel can separate system complexity from business processes. Also featured in version 5.7 is support for a multi-language approach to BPM, with Unicode certification and localized versions of the product’s designer and modeling environments. Among languages supported include English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, simplified Chinese and Spanish.Additionally, version 5.7 features new capabilities for leveraging best practices within a process template repository and a master role directory. Common process patterns can be captured as templates and managed within a central repository. UDDI is supported in version 5.7 to allow services used within a modeled process to be discovered and bound to a process from within the design-time modeling environment. Improved business activity monitoring dashboards also are featured. BPM Suite 5.7 is part of a multi-product introduction taking place as part of BEA’s SOA 360 plan and blended strategy for mixing open source and commercial offerings. BEA also is rolling out its Kodo 4.1 persistence engine product, basing its JPA (Java Persistence API) implementation on the same packages used in the Apache OpenJPA incubator. This boosts compatibility between Apache and BEA’s commercial products. Kodo 4.1 supports the JDO (Java Data Objects) 2.0 specification for persisting objects to data stores either via JDO 2.0 or JPA. Kodo is an object-relational tool for linking to databases.BEA also is releasing its BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform 9.2 development tool featuring an updated IDE Design Views function. The new product builds upon existing integration with the Eclipse 3.1 platform and the Eclipse Web Tools Platform 1.0 project. This Design Views capability now features point-and-click development of Web services, said Pieter Humphrey, senior manager of product marketing for the BEA Workshop tools division. Before, developers were using Java 5 standard annotations or writing source code in Eclipse. “Point-and-click makes it a lot faster. You can develop a pretty enterprise-quality Web service in just a few clicks,” Humphrey said. Also in version 9.2, a new Page Flow overview for Beehive Web applications provides developer navigation and documentation. Version 9.2 relies on the Eclipse Update Manager for distribution.Additionally, BEA is introducing is a new version of the Workshop Studio development tool, labeled version 3.2.1. This version includes updates from the Eclipse platform as well from the Eclipse Web Tools Platform 1.5.1 project. The Spring 1.3.4 Java framework also is supported. The Studio product is a platform-independent offering running on WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, JBoss and Tomcat. Technology Industry