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Lomboz Goes Open Source

Lomboz, the popular Eclipse plug-in for J2EE / Web Services development, becomes Open Source as Eteration, the project sponsor, joins ObjectWeb, the consortium specialized in Open Source Middleware.

Bonn, Germany; Istanbul, Turkey; and Grenoble, France (PRWEB) March 10, 2004 -- Lomboz, the popular Eclipse plug-in for J2EE / Web Services development, becomes Open Source as Eteration , the project sponsor, joins ObjectWeb, the consortium specialized in Open Source Middleware.

Lomboz is a full-featured Eclipse Workbench for professionial J2EE- and WEB services developers:
The development of Java applications for J2EE Application Servers and Web Services causes extra workload for creating directories, configuration files, and XML-scripts. Lomboz is a comfortable workbench providing generators and wizards to automate these tasks, hence reducing the developer's workload to a great extent. It is natively designed to extend Eclipse, the most popular Open Source Java integrated development environment.

Lomboz is a great support for developing, testing and debugging server applications using pre-configured server scripts and comfortable JSP and Servlet syntax editors. Lomboz was downloaded more than 250,000 times in the last 12 months.

Project URL: http://lomboz.objectweb.org

Open-source with objectives:
The Lomboz workbench has been created by a community of developers lead by eteration with the goal of making the development of professional web applications more efficient. For the management of the project and release of the code as Open Source, eteration has joined ObjectWeb, an international consortium specialized in industrial-grade Open Source Middleware. After Lomboz has been published on ObjectWeb's Forge, it has been downloaded by more than 25.000 developers worldwide every month – thus becoming the leading Open Source workbench for J2EE development with Eclipse.

Christophe Ney, Executive Director of ObjectWeb, declares: “The release of Lomboz under an Open Source license is great news for the community. We are proud to have been chosen to host this successful project. Welcome to eteration as a new member of ObjectWeb.”

New versions:
The new version 3.0 of Lomboz, scheduled to be released immediately following 3.0 release of Eclipse, will support J2EE 1.4 specification features such as Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0. Lomboz works with all J2EE compliant application servers including BEA WebLogic Server, IBM WebSphere, Oracle 9iAS and Open Source Servers like Apache Tomcat and JOnAS from ObjectWeb. For a quick start, Lomboz comes with sample configuration files for most J2EE application servers.

The Eclipse Webtools project:
Over the years, Eclipse has diversified into a number of subprojects. In 2003 the Eclipse Foundation launched the Eclipse WebTools project to support J2EE and Web Services development. ObjectWeb has been sounded out to take the lead of this project. The level of functionalities provided by Lomboz makes it a good candidate for being an initial code contribution to the Eclipse WebTools project.

About ObjectWeb:
Founded in 2002 by Bull, France Telecom and INRIA, ObjectWeb is a consortium of leading companies and research organizations from around the world who have joined forces to produce next generation of Open Source Middleware. ObjectWeb's goal is to provide Real-Time Enterprises with independent solutions which combine quality and robustness at the best possible performance/cost ratio. ObjectWeb targets alternative solutions to proprietary products for e-business, EAI, data connectivity, grid computing, and enterprise messaging. Based on Open Standards, ObjectWeb's middleware includes application servers, components, frameworks and tools. Examples of ObjectWeb's "cost killer" middleware are JOnAS - an Open Source implementation of the J2EE specification, JORAM - a Message Oriented Middleware and Enhydra - a Java/XML Application Server