Eteration and OW2 announce the availability of OW2 Lomboz 3.3, this all-inclusive package with features addressing SOA, BPEL, and Enterprise Portals also includes the latest version of eXo Platform and Liferay Portals. Lomboz 3.3 will be available in the form of Cloudsmith "virtual distros," which streamlines the process of downloading and assembling all prerequisites and third-party packages. Lomboz 3.3 will also be available as conventionally packaged downloads.

    Lomboz 3.3 includes all new editors for BPEL, BPEL runtime support with Apache ODE, as well as editors for Apache Struts, Spring Beans and Hibernate. By choosing the virtual distro option, the entire Lomboz 3.3 environment will be automatically retrieved and assembled on your local machine.With this release, Lomboz provides an IDE that has tools for Struts, JSF, Portals, JPA, Databases, Hibernate, Spring Framework, BPEL and of course Java EE development with EJBs, Servlets and JSPs. Lomboz 3.3 also contains tools for the popular Apache Struts Web framework that makes working with struts XML configurations easy.

    Over the last three years, OW2 Lomboz has had over 3 million downloads and is well established in its fifth consecutive year at the top of OW2's downloads. You can develop, test, profile and deploy Web, Web services, Java, J2EE and EJB applications with this IDE. Lomboz has comprehensive support for most J2EE standard application server runtimes, and supports most popular open source runtimes such as JOnAS, and other vendor runtime environments.

    "Eteration continues to show its commitment to OW2 Lomboz, Eclipse Foundation and Open Source Technology. We are building new strategic alliances within Open Source; now including Apache ODE and Eclipse BPEL. The addition of these new features provides the first out-of-the box open SOA tool with support for designing and running BPEL 2.0 processes. In addition, Web development with Lomboz has never been better with the latest tools for open application frameworks and standards such as JSF, AJAX, JPA, Spring, Hibernate and Struts, JSR 168 portlet development and extended support for eXo Platform and Liferay Portals," said Eteration CEO Naci Dai.

    Cedric Thomas, CEO of OW2 said: "The momentum achieved by Lomboz is extremely gratifying for the OW2 community. Lomboz success illustrates the innovative thrust of the OW2 community, it also demonstrates the power of the open source model in software areas where standardization is a key driver of user adoption."

    The new Lomboz will come complete with tutorials, cheat sheets, patterns and blue prints for Web, EJB and Web Services development to make enterpise level development easy and accessible to all developers. The first milestone achives the goal of integrating components that will be made available with the final release. The first release of WTP based on Eclipse 3.1 is targeted for July.

    The new Lomboz project includes the following tools from WTP: source editors for HTML, Javascript, CSS, JSP, SQL, XML, DTD, XSD, and WSDL; graphical editors for XSD and WSDL; J2EE project natures, builders, and models and a J2EE navigator; a Web service wizard and explorer, and WS-I Test Tools; and database access and query tools and models.