BEA系统有限公司日前宣布，BEA在Java性能方面再次获得了新的突破，加强了在这一领域的领先优势。具体体现在几个方面：首先，BEA创下了新的Java性能世界纪录，在SPECjbb2000 Java业务基准测试中，BEA JRockit 5.0_02打破了过去由IBM保持的纪录；其次，一位BEA代表已被选进标准性能评估公司（SPEC）董事会，进一步增强了 BEA在Java社区的领导地位。
SPECjbb2000是公认的行业标准基准测试，它用于测试在运行典型的Java企业业务应用时Java虚拟机（JVM）的性能。最新的SPECjbb2000测试结果表明，JRockit 5.0_02已当仁不让地成为业界最快的Java虚拟机。在配置了两个64位英特尔至强处理器的Dell PowerEdge SC1425服务器上运行BEA JRockit 5.0_02时，性能达到了每秒钟105296次操作，相比之下，IBM在相同配置的英特尔2路处理器服务器上的最佳性能为每秒钟103371次操作。

WebLogic JRockit 5.0_02是专门为在基于英特尔处理器的高性能服务器上运行大规模、关键任务、服务器端的应用而设计的，它提供了一流的功能，能够帮助用户快速而有效地部署应用，并实现最佳的性能。利用WebLogic JRockit 5.0_02，开发人员在生产效率、可管理性、性能和稳定性方面都能达到更高的水准。

英特尔数据企业集团产品线经理Jerry Braun表示：“我们正在与BEA合作，以继续优化在英特尔平台上运行大规模、企业级关键应用的性能。最新的基准测试结果证明了BEA JRockit 5.0_02能够在基于英特尔至强处理器的服务器上实现出类拔萃的性能。”

“事实证明，BEA JRockit是世界上最快的Java虚拟机，” BEA Java产品组总经理Guy Churchward说：“新的基准测试结果表明，我们的Java产品性能已经领先于IBM和Sun。为了进一步增强我们的竞争力，我们会持续保持在Java性能和功能创新方面的领先优势，巩固我们的领导地位。”

BEA在SPEC的新领导角色
标准性能评估公司（SPEC）是一个非赢利机构，旨在建立、维护和确定能够应用于最新高性能计算机的相关基准测试标准集。SPEC开发了多套基准测试程序，并评估和公布由其成员机构以及其它基准测试机构提交的测试结果。
高级软件工程师Steve Realmuto作为BEA代表，已入选SPEC董事会。通过这个新角色，BEA和其他成员一道，共同管理SPEC的全部运作及其不同基准测试团队的事务。

关于BEA WebLogic JRockit 5.0_02
WebLogic JRockit 5.0_02旨在提供专门为基于32位英特尔至强和64位英特尔安腾处理器的服务器而优化的具有最高性能、最易使用、最可管理的Java虚拟机，它即开即用，使Java开发人员能以尽可能少的配置获得最优化的性能，更快更有效地部署应用。WebLogic JRockit 5.0能够更容易地诊断问题，并能够在生产过程中实时地分析应用的行为和性能，并且不会对性能产生显著的影响。

关于SPECjbb2000
Java业务基准测试SPECjbb2000用于测试运行典型Java 企业业务应用的Java虚拟机的性能。它是一套客户机/服务器基准测试程序，用于模拟大规模供应商的订单处理系统。该基准测试由一个Java程序完成，它在一个单一的Java虚拟机环境内模拟了一个三层系统，代表了一个典型的业务应用：位于第一层的用户发出请求；中间层（第二层）执行业务逻辑并调用位于第三层的数据库。

Service Infrastructure
Moving SOA from Pilot to Production
Every major transition in the technology industry brings with it a wave of new software categories. The transition from mainframes to client-server brought us relational databases, rapid application development tools and several new categories of enterprise business applications. The Internet era brought us the pervasive web browser for easy access to distributed information, as well as application servers to deliver that information and virtual machines to make underlying technologies transparent.

As the industry embarks on its latest transition to "Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)," we will inevitably discover new software categories that use standards-based platforms and enterprise-wide architectures to provide a common technology infrastructure for today's business. Many of those categories are still early in the development phase, but BEA's day-to-day experience and in-depth research with thousands of customers suggest that one of those categories will be "Service Infrastructure" — a new framework comprised of independent SOA platforms that enable the free flow of business processes, information and services across and between businesses.

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BEA Systems has been working with thousands of customers over the past two years, as they start to work through the transition from client-server and Internet architectures to SOA. Many of these early adopters have done the heavy lifting through multiple pilot projects, which they hope will give them an early advantage in moving to SOA. What BEA has learned is that SOA is a very real phenomenon, driven by business and IT motivations, typically managed by an emerging group of "architects," and will require new service-oriented software to fully deliver on the vision.

To bring this insight to the market, BEA is releasing its findings from more than 1,000 "readiness tests" and 500+ customer surveys worldwide - which together represent the most comprehensive assessment of business SOA readiness to date.

Key findings include:

27% are already in the process of adopting SOA, nearly 33% of those enterprise-wide.
63% rank SOA as a Critical/High Priority for their business over the next 3 years.
Despite high adoption rates and plans, "familiarity" with SOA rated 1.76 on a scale of 1 to 4, reflecting "basic understanding" rather than "very advanced" knowledge of SOA.
SOA is viewed as critical to solving long-term pains for both business and IT. More than 90% cited business drivers like improved service to customers, partners and employees, greater operational efficiency and reduced complexity. More than 88% cited IT drivers including lower maintenance and integration costs, more efficient application and project development, management and re-use and more flexible/adaptable infrastructure.
"Architects" are leading the charge, but SOA projects involve many levels of business and IT management. More than 29% of survey participants designated themselves as architects — clearly a growing designation within IT ranks. Meanwhile, CIOs and C-level executives were as likely to participate in the SOA readiness survey as IT directors and managers.
A "Vision vs. Reality" gap exists between C-level and executive respondents and their deployment teams. The four categories of C-level, VP, director and manager respondents were each above 1.73 (on 1-4 scale) assessing their SOA readiness, while developers, engineers, consultants and systems analysts rated readiness at 1.67 or below.
The two biggest "holes" in SOA readiness were availability of "building blocks" to make SOA more productive and scalable, and the inability to quantify "costs and benefits" of SOA projects at this early stage.

Customers are gravitating to SOA because of its modularity and flexibility, which allows them to mix and match IT resources in a "virtual" infrastructure that is integrated while not being locked into a single vendor's IT stack. It also reflects the move from thinking about IT in an "application" context to thinking about IT as a "services" delivery business — enabling IT departments to create, assemble and deliver new services more quickly for use by employees, customers, partners and suppliers. As a new approach to enterprise IT implementation and application development, SOA breaks down business applications and features into "services" — specific pieces of functionality — which can be efficiently built, combined, adapted and reused.

Most customers to date are using their application infrastructure software (application servers, integration servers, development tools and portal software) to build and deploy their early SOA projects. As SOA moves from pilot to production, however, BEA and its customers are finding that they need a new type of software infrastructure that allows them to quickly compose, deliver, configure and manage these services. Customers typically encounter this need once they have built and deployed more than 50 services, which can result in a "services sprawl" that requires constant integration and can be difficult to scale. They also need a new set of composition tools that are more akin to an "assembly line" for building cars, in addition to the traditional coding tools they have used for "building car parts."

To address these needs, BEA envisions a new category of "Service Infrastructure" software that enables the free flow of processes, information and services across and between businesses. Based on a Service-Oriented Architecture, we believe it will include all the products and tools to enable services that can be composed once and leveraged anywhere (COLA). Primarily used by IT and business architects, the software will help IT overcome its long-standing $200 billion integration problem and respond faster to the rhythm of business.

The Market for Service Infrastructure
While "Service Infrastructure" may be a new term, it combines several existing software tools and component products that reflect the growing movement to SOA and Web services. Together, these products are estimated by analysts to become a $7 billion software market by 2008, which make Service Infrastructure the fastest-growing category of enterprise software. This market is distinct from and additional to the "Application Infrastructure" market, which provides the server software foundation for building and deploying enterprise applications.

Over time, BEA believes the Service Infrastructure category will include all the capabilities for full operation and lifecycle management of business and IT services across heterogeneous environments, including: messaging backbone; data integration services; user interface services; security framework; business process management; web services management; services repository and integrated configuration environment.

What's Next for Service Infrastructure
As the pioneer and market leader for Application Infrastructure, BEA is uniquely positioned to deliver the independent platforms for Service Infrastructure that will help make SOA a reality for customers. We have been hard at work with our customers providing expert consultation, helping develop and deploy services, and building out the capabilities required for Service Infrastructure. Equally as important, unlike vendors who have a vested interest in their database, application and operating system platforms, we can provide our customers with the independent platforms and broad integration they need to knit together diverse technology environments — an independence which becomes even more critical in the world of SOA.

It's clear that much more is needed as customers move beyond Application Infrastructure needs. To that end, BEA will unveil a new suite of products in mid-2005 — all designed to deliver on customer needs for Service Infrastructure, provide the on-ramp for moving SOA from pilot to production, and enable the services "assembly line" that enables IT to finally match the rhythm of business.