Also at JavaOne, BEA is announcing a technology preview of the BEA WebLogic Server application server featuring a full implementation of EJB. The offering combines the application server with Kodo and is expected to be available by the end of the year.

Additionally, BEA will take significant portions of Kodo and provide them in an open source format to Apache, via BEA's Open JPA (Java Persistence APIs) project.

"It makes EJB 3 persistence available to anyone who wants to use it in open source," Roth said.

BEA plans to sell manageability and reliability features as well as tooling related to Open JPA. The commercial version of Kodo features tools and connectivity to WebLogic Server.

Sybase at JavaOne will release version 1.5 of WorkSpace, an Eclipse-based development platform for Sybase servers such as the company's database, data integration, data movement and replication servers.