Supported Platforms for BEA Workshop Studio™ Product Family Version 3.1

The BEA Workshop Studio group of products consists of:

BEA Workshop Studio
BEA Workshop for JSF
BEA Workshop for Struts
BEA Workshop JSP Editor

All of these products are plugins to the Eclipse IDE framework and can be added to an existing Eclipse installation or installed as a standalone product with their own copy of Eclipse. If you install as a standalone product, Eclipse 3.1.2 and WTP 1.0.2 are installed. All Workshop Studio products ship with the open source Spring IDE 1.3.

Workshop JSP Editor is available as a free download. Workshop for Struts and Workshop for JSF include the JSP Editor functionality. Workshop Studio includes all three products.

Development Platform

All Workshop Studio products require the following platform to run the IDE:

Microsoft Windows 2000/XP or Linux Red Hat 9 or Fedora Core 2 or higher
1 GB of RAM
Eclipse 3.1.2
Web Tools Platform (WTP) 1.0.2
JRE 1.4.x or higher on Windows and 1.5 or higher on Linux

All Workshop Studio products support iterative testing (debugging and deployment on servlet containers) with any of the following servers:

Apache Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.x, 5.0.x, 4.1.x
BEA WebLogic Server 9.x, 8.1
Caucho Resin 3.0.x
JBoss 4.0.x or 3.2.x
IBM WebSphere 5.x, 6.x

Workshop Studio can be used to work with any SQL database that has a JDBC driver, including:

Oracle
DB2
MySQL
Microsoft SQL Server
Cloudscape/Derby
Hypersonic
Ingres
Sybase

Standards and Frameworks

All Workshop Studio products incorporate the Workshop JSP Editor which supports:

JSP: 2.0, 1.2 and 1.1
JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL): 1.1 and 1.0

Workshop Studio and Workshop for Struts support:

Struts: 1.2.9, 1.2, 1.1, and 1.0

Workshop Studio and Workshop for JSF support:

JavaServer Faces (JSF): 1.1
Sun Reference Implementation 1.1
MyFaces: 1.1

Workshop Studio also supports:

Hibernate: 3.2 rc2, 3.1.3, 3.1, 3.0, and 2.1
Hibernate Entity Manager: 3.1 beta 8
BEA Kodo 4.0
EJB3 Persistence (JPA): 1.0