Lutris ships an evaluation copy of CocoBase® Enterprise O/R with Lutris EAS providing developers Dynamic Object to Relational Mapping

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. – January 28, 2002 - Lutris Technologies Inc., pioneering J2EEä as Java Services, today announced the expansion of their Lutris EAS 4 J2EE Application Server featuring the Services Architecture, with CocoBase® Enterprise O/R, the leading Dynamic Object-to-Relational Mapping tool. CocoBase® provides Lutris EAS developers the full suite of persistence services tailored to the J2EE and J2SE platforms.

“Lutris Technologies’ commitment to deliver a superior application development platform to their community is exemplified by their decision to offer an open and extensible solution like CocoBase® Enterprise O/R with their own J2EE Application Server," said Ward Mullins, CTO of THOUGHT Inc.® "Together, we deliver a flexible and customizable solution that can easily meet the challenging needs of the development community.”

CocoBase’s® mapping technology covers the breadth of EJB 2.0/1.1 Entity Beans, Session Beans, JSP’s on the J2EE platform and Java persistence code on the J2SE platform. CocoBase’s® interoperability with the leading development environments and modeling tools provide Lutris EAS developers the ability to use their tool of choice.

Future releases of Lutris EAS will include an evaluation copy of CocoBase® as well as fully integrated sample applications and documentation to simplify J2EE and J2SE application development.

About CocoBase Enterprise O/R

CocoBase Enterprise O/R, OPTIMIZED for J2EE and J2SE Customer Success, solves the Object to Relational impedance mismatch. It virtually eliminates the need to hand-code database access for EJB and Java Applications. This can directly decrease up to 85% of the cost of database access development for enterprise customers faced with deploying fine-grained (simple to complex) relationships to J2EE (EJB 0/R) or J2SE (Java O/R) Application Servers.

CocoBase’s® unique Dynamic Mapping Layer insures that the developer can easily build and deploy applications for optimal scalability, performance with minimal maintenance. The CocoBase® technology is based on landmark patents issued to THOUGHT® Inc. for Repository based Object Mapping. It is the technology and product leader in the Java space. After years of product acceptance and thousands of installation sites, CocoBase® is in a class by itself in terms of delivering Object to Relational Mapping technology.

About Lutris EAS 4

Lutris EAS 4 is a modular, enterprise-quality J2EE application server implemented as a collection of Java Services installed on a Services Architecture kernel. Each J2EE API and additional non-J2EE custom services including SMS, CIMOM, Polling and Scheduling, as well as services wrapping legacy applications, are implemented as pluggable Java Services. All Java Services are automatically managed and represented through the JMX API to the fully graphical Lutris Management Console.

Lutris has designed EAS 4 for the ISV and VAR community that often requires a standard mechanism for extending the current set of J2EE services to address non-J2EE application models. Lutris EAS 4 also features Enhydra XMLC for device-independent presentation development. XMLC incorporates native support for HTML, J2ME, Flash, WML, cHTML, VoiceXML and custom XML development.

Lutris DynaCluster provides Enterprise quality session-level failover. Lutris EAS 4 also features support for Enhydra DODS and THOUGHT Inc.'s CocoBase for O/R mapping, as well as extensive integration with Borland JBuilder and Sun Forte IDE tools. Lutris EAS 4 source code is made available as part of its support agreement.

About THOUGHT Inc.

THOUGHT Inc. ®, architects of CocoBase® Enterprise O/R, “Dynamic Mapping for the Enterprise®” was formed in 1993, and subsequently revolutionized object to relational mapping technology with landmark solutions and industry leadership. The company supports customers around the world from their affiliate offices in Paris, France, and Florianopolis, Brazil as well as corporate headquarters in San Francisco, CA. CocoBase® and THOUGHT Inc. ® are registered trademarks of THOUGHT Inc. ®. CocoBase® technology is based on US patent #5857197. All other trademarks are property of their respective company. More information on THOUGHT Inc. ® can be obtained online at WWW.THOUGHTINC.COM or by calling (415) 836-9199.

About Lutris Technologies

Lutris Technologies is a leading provider of Java/XML application server products and is pioneering J2EE as Java Services. The company's mission is to deliver the highest value development and deployment platforms to our partners in the OEM, VAR, ISV and System Integrator community. Lutris offers a full range of product support, training and custom engineering services to its partners. Additional information about Lutris products, services and partner programs is available at www.lutris.com, or call (877) 688-3724 (U.S. toll free), (831) 460-7590 or +44 1923 698805 in the United Kingdom.

Lutris and Enhydra are registered trademarks of Lutris Technologies, Inc. Web of Services is a trademark of Lutris Technologies, Inc. Java, J2ME, and J2EE are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks belong to their respective holders.