New BEA SOA

BEA Systems has introduced two new products and a series of updates to AquaLogic User Interaction, a key component of the BEA SOA 360° platform. The releases are intended to help realise new levels of interoperability between JEE and .NET and increase the reuse of existing systems within new business solutions. AquaLogic Grid Search is designed to be a scalable search infrastructure for portal deployments and portal-based application development that will improve existing search capabilities by unifying search across unstructured content sources, collaborative documents, web content, communities, users and portal objects. AquaLogic .NET Application Accelerator is designed to help customers integrate new or existing Microsoft ASP.NET applications and services into portals powered by AquaLogic Interaction WebLogic Portal and third-party Java-portals. Using the toolkit, an ASP.NET developer can build and expose applications via the Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) standard in both AquaLogic Interaction and WebLogic Portal or any WSRP compliant portal server.

There are three new updates in the AquaLogic User Interaction product line. AquaLogic Interaction 6.1 is a new version of BEA’s cross-platform portal product, which includes support for additional application servers, operating systems and databases, enhancements to integrated search and knowledge management capabilities and faster page delivery. AquaLogic Interaction Collaboration 4.2 is an update designed to help users collaborate through simplified document sharing, project management, online discussions, group calendars and notifications. AquaLogic Interaction Analytics 2.0 is the next major release of the usage tracking and measurement system, new features include greater extensibility through remote APIs to track custom event and objects, additional out-of-the-box reports for reporting on extended search, collaboration and content publishing events and expanded security and management tools for distributed reporting capabilities to broader audiences.