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SCA Composite Designer

SCA XML Editor

Latest News

• June 24, 2009: SCA Tools 2.0.0 has been released. It is available in Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo), the new yearly Eclipse distribution. Install it now!
• March 11, 2009: The SCA Tools project has now a weekly build (every Sunday at midnight GMT) on the Eclipse Hudson server. You can also directly build SCA Tools (go to the Eclipse Hudson server and click 'Build Now' on the left hand side.). You will need to log in with your build.eclipse.org credentials. Thank you very much Oisin!
• December 16, 2008: We will talk at Eclipse Con 09.
  • Tutorial: Towards Integrated SOA Development with Eclipse STP and Swordfish,
  • Short talk: SCA Tools: new & noteworthy.
• June 25, 2008: SCA tools 1.0.0 Ganymede is available (see download section).

All news

Overview

New & Noteworthy.

Structure.

Available components and tools:

• SCA Composite Metamodel: SCA metamodel (OSOA) + Tuscany metamodel + FraSCAti metamodel.
• SCA Composite Designer: GMF modeler to construct SCA assembly files.
• SCA Samples: a set of ready to use SCA example projects.
• SCA XML Editor: XML editor for composite and componentType files.
• SCA Builder: a builder to validate SCA artifacts in an SCA project.
• Run / Debug: run and debug SCA Java projects on SCA platforms.
• Composite to Java: generate Java code skeletons from an SCA composite.
• SCA Semantics: add SAWSDL annotations on components, services, and references.

2 components are still in developpement:

• SCA Form Editor: an editor based on Eclipse forms for SCA assembly files.
• SCA Composite Introspector: construct SCA assembly files in a bottom-up approach from POJO and component type files.

Ideas for new components:

• Testing SCA Applications: a set of tools to test SCA applications.
• SCA Policy: how to define SCA policies?
• SCA Model Loader API: an extensible API to load and edit SCA models from SCA artifacts and implementation code. This API can be used in Eclipse and in standalone mode.

Install

SCA Tools 2.0.0

Tutorials

SCA Tools users

• First Steps with the SCA Composite Designer.
• Towards Integrated SOA Development with Eclipse STP and Swordfish - SCA Tutorial
• Run and debug SCA applications with Apache Tuscany (Java)
• Run and debug SCA applications with OW2 FraSCAti (Java)
• Run and debug SCA applications on your own Java runtime
• Debug an SCA Java platform with SCA Tools
• Add SAWSDL annotations on components, services, and references
• Build SCA applications with references described by WSDL interfaces

SCA Tools developers

• How to build SCA Tools project from the code?
• How to extend the SCA meta model?
• How to extend the SCA Composite Designer?

Articles

• How to track changes made in an SCA model?
• SCA Tools tips.
• SCA Tools project Creation Review.

Intermediate model and SCA

• Webinar: Bridging SOA Editors in Eclipse STP with the Intermediate Model
• Approaches to transform from STP-IM to SCA.
• Sample scenario involving the intermediate meta-model

Conferences

• OW2 Annual Conference 2009: SCA Tooling in Eclipse STP.
• Eclipse Con 09: Tutorial Towards Integrated SOA Development with Eclipse STP and Swordfish. SCA Tutorial.
• Eclipse Con 09: Short talk: SCA Tools: new & noteworthy. Slides.
• Eclipse Summit Europe 2008: SOA Tools - New and Noteworthy
• EclipseCon 2008 material: Building Easily and Quickly an SCA Composite.

Planning

Project Plan

June 2008, release V1.0 in Ganymede:

• SCA Common: SCA nature, wizard for the creation of new SCA assembly files, preference pages, basic samples. Done
• SCA Meta Model: SCA specifications 1.0 from OSOA + additional validation rules which apply on the SCA assembly description files. Done
• SCA Composite Designer: support of Tuscany SCA elements. Done
• Update of the web site and the wiki. Done
• Tutorial that explain how to use SCA tools. Done

December 2008:

• Possibility to extend the SCA metamodel with new bindings, implementations and interfaces. Done
• Possibility to extend the SCA Designer. Done
• SCA Commons: complex samples. Delayed
• SCA Meta Model: full support of the additional validation rules. Delayed
• SCA Composite Designer: support of Frascati SCA elements. Done
• SCA Composite XML Editor: completion on service, reference, and enhanced outline. Done
• Support Babel project for translating. Done
• Support of Tuscany 1.4. Done

April 2009:

• SCA Composite Form editor. In progress
• SCA Introspector: support of POJO. Done
• SCA Run/Debug: Apache Tuscany (Java) support. Done
• SCA Run/Debug: OW2 FraSCAti support. Done

June 2009:

• Release V2.0 in Galileo Done

July 2009:

• SCA Meta Model: support of SCA specifications 1.1 published by OASIS.
• SCA Composite Designer: update with the new meta model.
• SCA Composite Editors: update with the new meta model.

Links

Eclipse SCA Tools:

• SCA website
• Declaration for the SCA Tools Project
• SCA newsgroup - http access - The starting point for questions (you need a password to access the newsgroup: registration)
• SCA Bugzilla - Review and create Bugzilla entries
• SCA SVN repository - Get the latest SCA Tools code
• STP SCA User's Guide
• Project Plan
• Eclipse SCA Tools Blog - RSS feed
• Both Eclipse and SOA (blog) - RSS feed
• SCA Tools on the Eclipse Hudson server (You will need to log in with your build.eclipse.org credentials)

Eclipse STP:

• STP website
• STP wiki
• stp-dev - Developer mailing list for STP (used also for SCA)

External links:

• Open SOA - The Open SOA Collaboration
• Tuscany - Open source implementation of SCA
• FraSCAti - Open source implementation of SCA
• Fabric 3 - Open source implementation of SCA

The Team

Committers:

• Stéphane Drapeau (Obeo) - project lead - (Blog)
• Damien Fournier (INRIA)
• Oisin Hurley (Progress Software) - (Blog)
• Etienne Juliot (Obeo) - (Blog)
• David Porter (Progress Software)
• Lionel Seinturier (University of Lille)
• Vincent Zurczak (EBM Websourcing) - (Blog)

Contributors:

• Norihiro Kubo (IONA)
• Maxime Porhel (Obeo)

A large part of the SCA Tools project was implemented in the scope of the SCOrWare project funded by the French Research National Agency (ANR).