Sun today announced that it is accelerating the development process of Java technology-based applications by enhancing its suite of developer tools. Announced at the 10th annual JavaOne developer conference, Sun is bringing new features to its award-winning Sun Java Studio Creator and Sun Java Studio Enterprise development tools that will enable developers to improve their application development productivity using leading-edge technologies offered in both tools.

As part of Sun's commitment to the developer community, a number of updates are being announced:

Java Studio Creator 2 Early Access Program

To preview Java Studio Creator's new web development productivity enhancements, Sun is announcing the Java Studio Creator 2 Early Access program, which builds upon the success of the initial version by incorporating new features based on customer feedback. Some examples of key features in Java Studio Creator 2 are:

   * Now built on NetBeans IDE 4.1, the latest version of the award-winning open source IDE and platform, which provides new support for refactoring, version control and improved code editing;
   * A greatly expanded library of JavaServer Faces components, which allow development of richer web applications;
   * Support for the visual development of Java standard portlets, allowing organizations to aggregate their web applications in a single web portal; and
   * Direct support for Enterprise JavaBeans components, enabling easy access to organizations' existing server side business logic.

To participate in the development process, Sun is encouraging developers to register in the freely available Early Access program to download and test code within the product. To kick off the program, Sun released more than 5,000 copies of Java Studio Creator 2 Early Access DVDs to attendees of the 2005 JavaOne conference. Java Studio Creator is included in both the Sun Java Enterprise System and Sun Java System Suites. For more information, go to: http://developer.sun.com/jscreator.

Java Studio Enterprise Updates

Previewing at JavaOne 2005 is the future release of Sun Java Studio Enterprise, with new feature sets to enable a radically new service creation, orchestration and data mapping capability. These new features will aptly aid the development of service oriented architecture (SOA) based applications with integrated support for service orchestration and consumption, all based on industry defined standards.

Arriving later this summer will be an early access program for Java Studio Enterprise 8, the first enterprise development environment to deliver integrated, code-aware developer collaboration in an effort to accelerate team productivity. Java Studio Enterprise 8 extends both the modeling and collaboration features, providing complete Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 1.4 support.

For more information on Java Studio Enterprise, go to:http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jsenterprise/index.html.