BullSoft to Develop Apps on JavaBeans

BullSoft, the Billerica, Massachusetts software division of France's Bull SA, is aiming to speed its application development by switching to components based on an open Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) platform and making its EJB code available to open source developers. BullSoft has already signed loose partnerships with CNET (Centre National d'Etudes en Telecommunication), the research and development division of France Telecom, and ExOffice, a French open source products and services provider.

Users will benefit from the development changes with greater portability, as JavaBeans can run on any PC, explains Serge Lassabe, senior architect in the BullSoft Architecture and Technology department. A spokesman described it as a significant short-term advantage. In the longer term, BullSoft expects the Object Management Group (OMG)'s release of Corba 3 to bring the two component development models into sync, thereby increasing the potential market for BullSoft's applications, its core expertise.

BullSoft is currently concentrating on developing client applications. The server edition of Bullsoft EJB will not be ready for at least 12 months. Client applications in EJB have already been available for six months in user management - for implementing a corporate security policy - application monitoring, fault management, workgroup management, PC monitoring and performance management.

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