Welcome to the wiki home of the SCA Tools project that provides a set of tools for the Service Component Architecture (SCA) set of standards. This page is an entry point to last information about the SCA Tools project.

SCA Composite Designer

SCA XML Editor

The SCA Tools project has seen an enormous amount of new development since the 2008 Ganymede release. We've added an XML editor to make editing and updating SCA-standard assembly files really easy. For Java developers, it's now possibly to create an SCA assembly definition and then generate Java code from it. And, if you want to start with some Java you already have, we've added a special introspector that will investigate your code and automatically produce an SCA assembly. Once you've created your Java SCA project, you can then run and debug it using the great facilities that Eclipse provides. We also have made sure that the SCA artifacts you might create are properly validated, helping you spot mistakes early in the process. We even took the time to update the graphics, giving us a prettier SCA Composite Designer.

One of the most exciting feature is how we've developed the core SCA model to be extensible by people who want to write in extra capabilities into the tools. The heart of the model contains the SCA standard specifications, and different extensions have been created to support the key Open Source SCA runtimes - Apache Tuscany 1.4 and Frascati 0.5. Using the extension mechanisms, it is much more straightforward to add new concepts to SCA and extend the tools to include them.

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Latest News

• April 12, 2010: The SCA Tools project has left the STP TLP for the SOA TLP.
• March 23, 2010: We will talk at Eclipse Con 10: Eclipse SOA TLP: Lock, Stock and Barrel and Painless (?) Metamodel Evolution.
• March 4, 2010: First version of the SCA Composite Designer that allows to edit SCA assembly files conform to the OSOA specifications or conform to the OASIS specifications. This new version of the SCA Composite Designer proposes also extensions for FraSCAti 1.x, Tuscany 1.x and Tuscany 2.x. The code can be download here: svn://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/stp/org.eclipse.stp.sca-tools/org.eclipse.stp.sca/trunk/
• February 26, 2010: Galileo SR2 and SCA Tools 2.0.1 are here! Instructions.
• January 15, 2010: The new SOA top level project replaces the SOA Tools Platform (STP) top level project.
• September 11, 2009: SCA Tools 2.0.1 Quick Tour (video - about 7 minutes). See the ease-of-use features of SCA Tools.
• 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!

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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 2.0.1

Tutorials

Tutorials for 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 2.0.1 Quick Tour (video - about 7 minutes). See the ease-of-use features of SCA Tools.

Tutorials for 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?
• Last builds

Articles

• How to track changes made in an SCA model?
• SCA Tools tips.
• SCA Tools project Creation Review.
• SCA Tools project: Move Review from the STP TLP to the SOA TLP.

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

• Eclipse Con 10: Eclipse SOA TLP: Lock, Stock and Barrel.
• Eclipse Con 10: Painless (?) Metamodel Evolution.
• 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.

Previous plans.

June 2009:

• Release 2.0.0 in Galileo. Done

September 2009:

• SCA Tools 2.0.1: Galileo SR1. Done

October 2009:

• Ease the definition of WS references Delayed
• Use Eclipse Acceleo to generate the skeletons In progress

November 2009:

• Export SCA applications to deploy them into OW2 Petals Cancelled
• Add additional validation constraints on binding.jbi Done

December 2009:

• Pre-define SCA master launch configurations Delayed
• Create a launcher for Tuscany 2.x In progress
• Refactor the SCA XML editor Done
• Update the SCA meta model with the OASIS specifications Done
• Refactor the SCA Composite Designer to work with the OASIS specifications Done
• Update the SCA Tools meta model with Tuscany 2.0 specificities Done
• Update the SCA Designer to work with Tuscany 2.X Done

January 2010

• Complete the component part of the SCA Form editor Delayed
• SCA Business Framework Cancelled

February 2010

• SCA Tools 2.0.2: Galileo SR2 Done
• Add the OASIS XML schemas for the SCA XML editor Done

March 2010

• Resolve line numbers in the SCA builder Done
• Update the utilities for the OASIS specification (builder, wizards) Delayed

April 2010

• Update the SCA tooling with the SCA Event Processing Specifications Cancelled

May 2010

• Use Eclipse EEF for the property views Cancelled

June 2010

• SCA Tools 2.1.0: Eclipse Helios

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
• Vincent Zurczak's blog - RSS feed
• SCA Tools on the Eclipse Hudson server (You will need to log in with your build.eclipse.org credentials)
• Retention Policy
• Metrics
• API Policy
• IP Log

Eclipse SOA:

• SOA website
• soa-dev - Developers mailing list for SOA (used also for SCA)
• soa-users - Users mailing list for SOA (used also for SCA)
• soa-pmc

Eclipse STP:

• STP website
• STP wiki
• stp-dev - Closed
• stp-commits
• stp-pmc

External links:

• Open SOA - The Open SOA Collaboration
• OASIS Open CSA - The OASIS Open CSA Member Section
• 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 (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)
• Jamil Shaikh (RIM)

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).