 In 2001, IBM donated the Eclipse Platform into Open Source to enable community-driven development of a Java workbench and tools.Eclipse was based on standards like J2EE and was designed with a plug-in based framework so that vendors could easily extend the features of the workbench.Also in 2001, IBM replaced the VisualAge for Java and WebSphere Studio products with WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD), version 4.0.