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Plumtree Launches Developer Support Program and Developer Tools for its 2,000 Customer and Partner Developers Plumtree Service Station and Dedicated Support Team Accelerate Service-Oriented Application Development SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise Web leader Plumtree Software (NASDAQ:PLUM) today announced a new support program for customer and partner developers and a new testing tool, called Plumtree Service Station, for accelerating development of custom Web services. Both offerings were created to empower Plumtree's growing developer community, currently numbering over 2,000 members, to build service-oriented applications quickly and easily. Plumtree's new Developer Support Program includes a comprehensive package of programming services, as well as dedicated phone and onsite support. Plumtree Service Station offers developers a means for testing Integration Web Services independent of the portal, dramatically speeding development and testing of custom Web services. Plumtree will host a Web seminar detailing the new support program and demonstrating Plumtree Service Station on September 13, 2004. Customers and partners can register for the seminar at http://www.plumtree.com/04/devsupport. "Plumtree Developer Support has been crucial in supporting our effort to build collaborative and user-centric applications that foster communication between our corporate staff and our educational facilities," said Ray Simpson, developer at Apollo Group, provider of higher education programs to working adults. "We're excited that Plumtree has extended its developer support offering and we plan to use its new services to speed our development cycle and glean knowledge and code from Plumtree experts." Plumtree's new class of developer support will automatically be credited to customers who have Enterprise or Advanced support contracts with Plumtree. Plumtree partners, including ISVs, systems integrators and resellers will receive developer support services with the partner program's limited use development license for all Plumtree products. For more information on joining Plumtree's partner program, go to: http://www.plumtree.com/partners/application/. New Program Offers Personalized Developer Support Based on upsurge of developer activity in the Plumtree community, Plumtree designed its new support program to give developers faster and more personalized assistance from Plumtree development experts. Plumtree's new Developer Support Program includes: -- A dedicated developer support team at Plumtree; -- 12- and 24-hour response times for developer support issues depending on priority of the issue; -- Short-term programming services where Plumtree experts will code portlets or other Web Services that can be completed within 24 hours; -- Onsite developer support for issues that require in-person attention; -- A named developer support account manager; and -- Priority access to beta programs and pre-release developer products. Plumtree Service Station Speeds Development of Integration Web Services Before the launch of the Plumtree Service Station, developers building custom Web Services had to use a portal environment to load, test and debug Web services. Using Plumtree Service Station, developers can now develop and test Integration Web Services independent of the portal environment. As a result, development time is greatly reduced and developers are able to isolate problems more easily. Plumtree Service Station includes: -- A Graphical User Interface (GUI) that gives developers a way to create, modify, monitor and test Integration Web Services without knowledge of Java; -- Support for JUnit, a Java-based automated testing framework, enabling developers to build JUnit-based test cases for Plumtree Integration Web Services; -- Integration with multiple IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) allowing developers to seamlessly test and debug Plumtree Integration Web Services while remaining in their existing IDE; and -- A logging service that supports troubleshooting by flagging unexpected results and providing detailed activity of Integration Web Services, including full SOAP logging. With Service Station, developers now have one place to go for all their Integration Web Service testing needs instead of using multiple debugging tools in a portal environment. Plumtree Service Station and all relevant documentation are available for download on the Plumtree Developer Center at: http://devcenter.plumtree.com/. "Plumtree has been recognized over and over for having customers with the most sophisticated portal applications in the industry. Behind this success is a vibrant community of innovative developers," said Eric Zocher, vice president of product development. "Accordingly we've sharpened our focus on giving this community the support and tools they need to build even more impressive applications using Plumtree." Web Seminars Help Developers Build Advanced Service-Oriented Applications To further support customer, partner and prospect developers, Plumtree holds Technical Web Seminars throughout the year. This month, Plumtree is hosting technical Web seminars focused on integrating existing Web applications, Business Intelligence (BI) systems, Identity Management systems and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems into portal applications. To register for one of these seminars, go to: http://www.plumtree.com/04/technicalseminars_pr. About Plumtree Software Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web leader. Plumtree's mission is to create a comprehensive Web environment for employees, customers and partners across the enterprise to interact with different systems and work together. Plumtree's Enterprise Web solution consists of integration products for bringing resources from traditional systems together on the Web, shared services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and a portal platform for delivering these Web applications to broad audiences. Plumtree's independence and its Web Services Architecture allow this solution to span rival platforms and systems, helping maximize customers' return on their existing technology investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries, Plumtree has licensed over 640 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy. For more information, visit Plumtree on the Web at http://www.plumtree.com/. Plumtree is a registered trademark of Plumtree Software, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries. All other registered and unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole property of their respective owners. Press Contact Carilu Dietrich Plumtree Software 415-399-7047 DATASOURCE: Plumtree Software, Inc. CONTACT: Carilu Dietrich of Plumtree Software, +1-415-399-7047 or Web site: http://www.plumtree.com/

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