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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. Rate this plugin Latest News April 14, 2011: SCA Tools is now built with Tycho. Check this page for additional information. 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. Read all the news

Overview Take a look at the new & noteworthy changes. The project structure is described on this page. 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? 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 Update me! Build SCA applications with references described by WSDL interfaces Update me! 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? Update me! How to extend the SCA Composite Designer? Update me! Last builds How to update the version of SCA Tools in the code? 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 SCA Tools will be part of the next Eclipse release, Eclipse "Indigo" 3.7. This version is planned to be released in June 2011. Take a look at the project plan. Previous plans are here. Links The SCA Tools project: SCA Tools Website SCA Tools forum Project's summary page Development links: Git repository - Latest SCA Tools code (Git) SVN repository (old) - Archives for SCA Tools code (SVN) SCA Bugzilla - Review and create Bugzilla entries SCA Tools on the Eclipse Hudson server Website sources - The sources for the SCA Tools website (Git) 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).