Welcome to the wiki home of the STP/SCA sub project. This page is an entry point to last information about the STP/SCA sub project.

Latest News

• April 9, 2008: We released Ganymede M6 (update site: ).
• March 19, 2008: We are talking at EclipseCon 2008! Building Easily and Quickly an SCA Composite.
• March 5, 2008: New tutorial available! First Steps with the SCA Composite Designer.
• March 4, 2008: New build available (Tuscany support)! See Download section.
• February 20, 2008: We just released Ganymede M5.

All news

Overview

• SCA Composite Metamodel: SCA metamodel (OSOA) + additional binding, interface, implementation.
• SCA Composite Designer: GMF modeler to construct SCA assembly files.

4 components are still in developpement:

• SCA Examples: A set of ready to use SCA example projects.
• SCA Composite XML Editor: XML editor for composite files.
• SCA Composite Form Editor: an editor for composite files based on Eclipse forms.
• SCA Composite Introspector: Construct SCA assembly file in a bottom-up approach.

Download

• The last build containing the SCA Composite Metamodel plugin + the SCA Composite Designer plugin.

This build contains all the STP/SCA plugins you need to run the SCA Composite Designer. You can download all GMF requirements + Eclipse platform here and GMF 2.0.1 here.

• The SCA Composite Designer is available for download from the STP Update site at http://download.eclipse.org/stp/updates/ganymede.

Articles

• EclipseCon 2008 material: Building Easily and Quickly an SCA Composite.
• Tutorial: First Steps with the SCA Composite Designer.

Planning

June 2008, release V1.0 in Ganymede:

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

December 2008:

• SCA Commons: complex samples.
• SCA Meta Model: full support of the additional validation rules.
• SCA Composite Designer: support of Frascati SCA elements.
• SCA Composite Editors: XML editor + Form editor.
• Integration with the STP Policy Editor component.
• Integration with the STP Service Creation component.
• Integration with the STP SOA System component.

March 2009:

• SCA Meta Model: support of SCA specifications that should be published in december 2008 by OASIS.
• SCA Composite Designer: update with the new meta model.
• SCA Composite Editors: update with the new meta model.
• SCA Introspector: support of POJO and EJB introspection.

Links

• STP
• STP/SCA
• STP wiki
• STP newsgroup - The starting point for questions
• stp-dev - Developer mailing list for STP
• Open SOA - The Open SOA Collaboration
• Tuscany - Open source implementation of SCA
• SCOrWare - Open source implementation of SCA

The Team

• Stéphane Drapeau (Obeo)
• Etienne Juliot (Obeo)
• Bogdan Vatkov (SAP)