Sybase, the provider of En¬terprise IT infrastructure and mobile software, released version 1.5 of its development environment WorkSpace, which is based on the Eclipse IDE. Sybase claims its Workspace is a unified application development environment, the first to bridge the gap between the vision of a service oriented architecture and the reality of traditional development tools. Sybase Workspace intends to combine modeling, data management, services assembly and orchestration, Java development and mobilization in a single tool. Designed to support the principles of service-oriented development of applications (SODA), Sybase WorkSpace is said to enable developers to quickly build and deliver any kind of application: from event- and data-driven applications to Web-based, composite, and mobile applications. According to Sybase, WorkSpace is built on the Eclipse open source framework, making it easier and faster for developers to build complex applications that link heterogeneous infrastructures such as databases, messaging systems, and enterprise applications.

Workspace 1.5 plays host to new tools for the production of Internet applications, a revised support of database development and new tools for the packaging and licensing of products. The Workspace tool for the development of Web applications combines JavaServer Faces (JSF) with Sybase’s DataWindow technology.