The Swordfish Blog

The first two days of EclipseCon are over and it has been a great experience for the whole team so far. We’ve met a bunch of amazing people and the interest in SOPERA and Swordfish in particular was very encouraging. Thanks to everyone who was attending my talk on Swordfish today… I’d never thought that it would attract so many people!

Only a few hours to go and we’re off to Santa Clara, California, for EclipseCon 2008!
It’s going to be a big thing for SOPERA this year:

• On Monday, 10:30, Jerry Preissler is holding a tutorial on policy handling with Eclipse STP, together with David Bosschaert of IONA Technologies. Don’t miss it if you’re interested in advanced SOA concepts!
• SOPERA’s CTO, Ricco Deutscher, is going to talk about why Deutsche Post decided to go open source in his long talk on tuesday at 11:10. If you care about the business side of open source, this is for you!
• Yours truly is going to talk about — you guessed it — Swordfish on Tuesday right after lunch at 13:30.
• And finally it’s Jerry again: at 14:30 he is doing a talk on an integrated approach to SOA tooling for ServiceMix and other platforms. If you’re a ServiceMix user, go ahead and watch it!

Above all that, we’re a gold sponsor and have a booth in the exhibit area. So if you want a nice green backpack, just come by and talk to the friendly people in the black T-Shirts.

See you in Santa Clara!

Admittedly, things have been a bit quiet around Swordfish lately. But that doesn’t mean that we’ve been lazy: Everybody was working behind the scenes to prepare the initial code contribution.

The initial contribution is the core SOA engine from the SOPERA Advanced Services Framework, formerly known as Service Backbone from Deutsche Post. This contribution has just passed the first gate of the Eclipse Parallel IP compliance process. Once the code is committed to the Subversion repository (due to happen very shortly), we will start refactoring that “in the open”. The result will be an OSGi-based SOA engine — the first milestone on our way to an SOA runtime framework.

Just in time for Eclipse Summit Europe 2007, I’m proud to unveil our logo:

Kudos to ayjala@web.de for her great design work!

Watch out for the guys wearing Swordfish T-shirts on the Summit — that’s us.

The detailed project plan for Q3 and Q4 2007 is almost finished. I’m going to post the details next week.

The Eclipse Summit Europe is only 3 days ahead and the Swordfish team is really excited about the huge number of quality talks and symposia as well as the chance to meet interesting people from all over the Eclipse universe.

If you’d like to meet us, there’ll be quite some opportunities:

• Klaus Kiehne will participate in the Server-Side Eclipe Symposium on Tuesday.
• SOPERA’s CTO, Ricco Deutscher, will be talking on “Best Practice SOA goes Eclipse” on Wednesday at 11.00.
• Gerald Preissler and myself will present Swordfish in the Poster reception on Wednesday at 18.00

Moreover, our employer SOPERA GmbH is an official sponsor of ESE 2007, so you’ll probably find us around SOPERA’s display area. If you’d like to arrange a meeting, please feel free to give me a call on +49-160-98931313.

Looking forward to meeting you in Ludwigsburg!