Leveraging Today's Business Forte Tools products enable businesses to transform their data into shared services on demand, providing the tools to create, assemble, and deploy both traditional and Web-based applications into a services driven framework. Thus businesses using Forte Tools products are enabled to leverage their existing systems, while laying the foundation for future innovation. If you're considering a development environment that gives you the most for your money and supports your future technology needs, there are many reasons why Sun's Forte Tools should be your first and only choice. The modular architecture of Forte products allow developers to extend the functionality of the IDE based on their specific needs.
Developers can plug in modules in much the same way that functionalities are added to a Web browser.
Additionally, the open nature of the framework allows developers to add modules to the Forte IDE that were created by other vendors, or even developed by themselves. This open framework is the key to making the Forte IDE and the Sun ONE product stack integratable with partner products. Forte Tools help businesses leverage technology from Sun, Sun's partners, and the open source community. With support for standards such as Java and XML, and support for WSDL, UDDI, and SOAP through integratable partner modules, the Forte Tools products enable businesses to convert legacy applications into dynamic services, assemble services together, create new services, and enable a variety of clients to access those services. You don't have to be an expert developer to take advantage of Sun's tools.