Bluestone Software Fortifies Product Line With J2EE-based Bluestone Universal Business Server for TeB; Complete Support for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition Bolsters Bluestone's Proven Application Deployment Engine with JSP 1.1, Servlets 2.2, and E

Business Wire, May 1, 2000

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Bluestone(R) Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLSW), a leading provider of Enterprise Interaction Management software, today announced General Availability for Bluestone Universal Business Server for TeB(TM) Version 7.0, its 100% Pure Java Application Server deployment engine which is the heart of its flagship product, Sapphire/Web(R) and its Integration Server, Bluestone XML Suite(TM), as well as the foundation of its newest product line, Total-e-Business(TM) platform. Based entirely on Sun's J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) specification and using XML as its internal communication vehicle, Bluestone Universal Business Server for TeB establishes the ultimate infrastructure foundation for enterprise-class e-business applications.

Bluestone Universal Business Server for TeB is the next generation of the Sapphire/Universal Business Server, the application deployment architecture that powers the company's award-winning Sapphire/Web Application Server framework. As a result, the Bluestone Universal Business Server for TeB brings legendary performance, scalability, fault tolerance and XML (eXtensible Markup Language) services to the company's forthcoming Total-e-Business platform editions, including Total-e-Global(TM), Total-e-B2B(TM), Total-e-B2C(TM), Total-e-Wireless(TM), and Total-e-Server(TM), scheduled for release later in Q2 of this year. The J2EE foundation fortifies Bluestone Universal Business Server for TeB with robust implementations of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 1.1, Java Servlets 2.2, and JavaServer Pages (JSP) 1.1, including Taglib support.

"J2EE is the foundation of choice for enterprise applications, thanks to platform portability, software reusability, broad vendor support, and reduced training costs," said Bob Bickel, executive technology officer and senior vice president of products for Bluestone Software. "To those benefits, Bluestone Universal Business Server for TeB adds significant performance and usability advantages to innovative implementations of EJB 1.1 and JSP 1.1. Our EJB server is optimized for Web and XML-based applications. Our comprehensive support for JSP and Taglibs lets departmental programmers build powerful Total-e-Business solutions with an easy-to-use, non-proprietary scripting language."

A detailed white paper, entitled, "Bluestone Software's EJB Technology" by TechMetrix Research is also available today on Bluestone' Website (www.bluestone.com) or by contacting Bluestone at (610) 915-5000 x2775. Statements of customer enthusiasm follow at the end of this news announcement.

The Infrastructure for Total-e-Business

Among the J2EE technologies, JSP 1.1 and Taglibs play a pivotal role in dramatically expanding the audience of Total-e-Business developers. The two technologies create a straightforward scripting language that is extensible, reusable, and accessible to the vast pool of HTML and XML programmers already in the marketplace. Recognizing this value, Bluestone Universal Business Server for TeB offers exhaustive support for JSP 1.1 with Taglibs, including a JSP engine that is fully compatible with the JSP 1.1 standard. Additionally, Bluestone Universal Business Server for TeB can run Taglibs that are publicly available and Taglibs developed on other J2EE platforms, as well as Taglibs that Bluestone will release in the future.

Continued Bickel, "Without detracting from the rest of our Bluestone Universal Business Server for TeB, the crown jewel would have to be its JSP 1.1 implementation. There may be 50,000 people who understand how to use EJB, and you have to accommodate them and the creation of core application logic. But there are potentially millions of people who understand how to use JSP, and we believe JSP, along with Taglibs, is the departmental scripting language of the future."

Bluestone Universal Business Server for TeB also includes a complete implementation of Java Servlets API 2.2 to provide a standard mechanism for building dynamic Web applications that are portable across hardware, Web server, and Application Server platforms.

To deliver superior application performance, Bluestone Universal Business Server for TeB runs the JSP and Servlet engines in the same Application Server instance as the EJB server. Unique to Bluestone, this in-process deployment technique eliminates the remote network calls that degrade Web and XML application performance. Moreover, the technique ensures that JSPs and Servlets enjoy the Customer-Facing Fault Tolerance, scalability, security, and performance provided by the proven Bluestone Universal Business Server for TeB.

Similarly, Bluestone's EJB 1.1 implementation leverages the core Bluestone Universal Business Server for TeB strengths noted above, as well as Internet Quality of Service (IQS(TM)), Hot Versioning(TM), application management and development capabilities, and integration services via XML and Bluestone Connectors.