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Standardizing the World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is becoming increasingly dependent on the Java platform. Java provides web designers with a great tool for 3D graphics. In addition, it helps give a more realistic feel to the very virtual world that is the Internet. An application has been developed that standardizes the web and Java development, to allow for better flow in web design and access. The Eclipse foundation this week will make Web Tools Platform (WTP) 1.0 available for download. Version 1.0 will help vendors build an industry-wide consensus on the technologies used to create Web applications.

The goal of the WTP is to build a platform that allows for a high level of re-use and extensibility so users can go from one vendor to another, say IBM WebSphere to BEA WebLogic, without needing to institute widespread changes or add components from one application to the other. WTP 1.0 has been broken down into components, called features, so vendors can select subsets of functionality they want to incorporate. Project members also future-proofed the platform by coordinating project-model changes with changes to the overall Eclipse platform. The update also fixes a number of stability, performance and scalability bugs.

`This release really starts to deliver on the vision of the Web Tools Platform`, Mike Milinkovich, Eclipse Foundation director, said in a statement. `Providing a strong platform for companies to leverage when building Web and J2EE tools is a critical component of Eclipse`s strategy for providing a universal development platform for tools integration`. Version 1.0`s enhancements are mostly around making WTP easier to adopt for Web application tools vendors.