BEA Adds Web 2.0 Features To Enterprise Portals

BEA Systems launched new portal software this week aimed at both simplifying the development of Web 2.0 applications and integrating those applications with external applications.

The company's BEA WebLogic Portal 10 software adds a number of capabilities to help programmers create dynamic Web applications including Ajax enhancements that BEA said will ease the development of this software. BEA said WebLogic Portal 10 also makes it possible for developers to exchange portlets and portal services with Web applications that are running outside of the portal. This capability will help expand the scope of these applications to combine content from diverse sources and create faster tempo user experience, according to BEA.BEA WebLogic Portal 10 also provides companies with a platform to transform previously isolated Web applications into managed portal applications. The vendor said the software would give organizations the tools to create and publish new content with relative ease.