I'm rubbish at re-iterating press releases and as others have already done it for me I recommend you read this one, this one and this one.Very cool news nevertheless, as in effect BEA and Adobe are cross-pollinating each other's products with Weblogic Server and WorkShop Studio on the BEA side and Flex Builder 2 plus LifeCycle Enterprise Suite at Adobe's end.
I'm not very familiar with BEA's software or server products but apparently they are big with the J2EE crowd and widely used for high-end, enterprise level applications.
Have any of you readers worked with Workshop Studio before? What does it do, how will it power Flex Builder forward and is the bundle a reply by Adobe to Microsoft's Expression tools? :-)
As Eclipse is is a plugin-based architecture, it is my assumption that Flex Builder will be bundled as such. This is great new because it will allow front-end Flex developers to have a one-stop shop to design/build Flex-based UI and then be able to integrate them with a WebLogic server back-end.