Rick Graham

BEA Systems Inc.'s WebLogic Workshop is a combination development/run-time environment, very much in the spirit of IBM Corp.'s WebSphere Application Developer. But WebLogic Workshop exclusively generates J2EE applications, and it operates at a dizzying level of abstraction compared with similar tools. Whereas J2EE was all about abstracting low-level entities such as database rows and message queues, WebLogic Workshop is all about abstracting J2EE.