BEA Technologist Selected as Chair of W3C Working Group; Underscores Company's Leadership Role in Advancing Web Services Standards Efforts

BEA Technologist Selected as Chair of W3C Working Group; Underscores Company's Leadership Role in Advancing Web Services Standards Efforts

Mark Nottingham Named Chair of the W3C WS-Addressing Working Group

SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- http://bea.com/more_info.jsp?p=267&r=2.7.31 -- BEA Systems (NASDAQ:BEAS) announced today that Mark Nottingham, senior principal technologist in the Office of the CTO at BEA Systems, has been named the chair of the W3C WS-Addressing Working Group.

BEA continues to be recognized as a leader in driving industry standards efforts as recently evidenced by this new leadership position within the W3C -- one of the standards bodies that lead the technical evolution of the Web and help ensure its interoperability. This announcement underscores a continued commitment from BEA to help advance the standards and ultimately support of the successful development of Web services and next generation of the Web.

The WS-Addressing specification was jointly submitted to the W3C by BEA Systems, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., SAP AG and Sun Microsystems Inc. to help enterprises build interoperable Web services applications that are designed to work across disparate hardware platforms and operating environments. As the chair of the W3C WS-Addressing Working Group, Nottingham will lead the group's work to refine the specification that can define a standard way for identifying and exchanging Web services messages between multiple end points.

In the 10 years since the W3C was founded, it has developed more than 80 technical specifications for the Web's infrastructure. To meet the growing expectations of users and the increasing power of today's hardware, the W3C is now focused on helping to lay the foundation for the next generation of the Web in which the WS-Addressing specification can play a critical role. As a mature specification, WS-Addressing is important to advancing Web services standardization and is used in other emerging specifications such as WS- ReliableMessaging, WS-Eventing, and WS-Transaction.

BEA's dedication of resources to the WS-Addressing Working Group represents the latest in the company's effort to help increase industry and customer adoption of Web services. As an industry leader, BEA has strived to create and co-author standards and technologies designed to help reduce costs and complexity while helping to increase developer productivity. During the past 5 years at the W3C, BEA has participated in the development of many W3C specifications, including SOAP 1.2, WSDL 2.0, XInclude 1.0, XQuery 1.0, XOP 1.0 and MTOM. BEA has also pioneered software efforts designed to increase customer access to W3C specifications, such as Apache Beehive and Apache XML Beans.

For more information on the latest Web services standards and technology innovations from BEA, visit: http://dev2dev.bea.com/technologies/webservices/standards.jsp .

For more information on BEA, visit www.bea.com, call the BEA public relations hotline at 408-570-8004.


Source: BEA Systems, Inc.

CONTACT: Michael Thacker of BEA Systems, Inc., +1-408-570-8040, or
mthacker@bea.com; or Shoshana Deutschkron of Bite Communications,
+1-415-365-0394, or Shoshana.deutschkron@bitepr.com, for BEA Systems, Inc.

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