Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Lighthouse Design has completed the sale of a worldwide site license with Fannie Mae, the nation's largest source of home mortgage funds, for JavaPlan, Sun's enterprise platform for the development of sophisticated Java applications.

"As we move our business forward to the next century, JavaPlan will provide the foundation upon which our enterprise-wide applications will be built," said Bill Kelvie, Chief Information Officer for Fannie Mae. "JavaPlan is critical to our ability to design new and dynamic products for our business and to continue to support our legacy applications throughout this transition."

JavaPlan is an enterprise development product targeted specifically at large organizations seeking to lay a solid foundation for the development and evolution of Java applications. Through an integrated and easy-to-use suite of graphical tools, JavaPlan facilitates the development of Java models and component designs--promoting the creation of valuable repositories whose reuse expedites the delivery and increases the quality of custom applications.

"JavaPlan is a key piece of our Java Enterprise Computing strategy," said Ed Zander, president, Sun Microsystems Computer Company. "JavaPlan enables enterprise customers to build large-scale mission-critical systems and more quickly deploy these applications to the JavaStation."

JavaPlan provides several components necessary for creating a repository of Java models, code, and business processes. These components include graphical modeling, subsystems and application frameworks; fully integrated static and dynamic diagrams; forward, reverse and "round trip" engineering of Java, Objective-C and C++ code; a flexible code browser for navigating source trees; and, an automated mechanism for creating standards-based or customized documentation for publication to paper or the World Wide Web.

"JavaPlan is an ideal solution to promote design and reuse in our enterprise," said Carol Teasley, Vice President of Object Technology for Fannie Mae. "After a careful evaluation, we selected JavaPlan as the best solution for building and maintaining business objects for reuse, for navigating the contents of our corporate repository and for visualizing complex applications development."

Lighthouse Design, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. business, delivers developer tools, components and applications that enable enterprises to start the move to Java Computing today.