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.