| [jwt-dev] JWT Version 0.7 - Draft for a press release and blog entry |
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Hi guys, please find below a draft for the press
release and blog entry for JWT version 0.7 which we release today. Any comments
are welcome. Best regards, Florian --- Title: Java Workflow
Tooling (JWT) 0.7 released Content: The Eclipse project Java Workflow Tooling
(JWT) released version 0.7 which is available for download now. JWT aims to
build design time, development time and runtime workflow tools and to foster an
ecosystem of interoperable Business Process Management (BPM) platforms. The main features of the new release are: -
The underlying metamodel has
been outsourced: view specific information as well as layouting data are
now stored in an own file and separated from the original model (similar as in
GMF). This makes the workflow files much smaller and easier to handle for
existing model-to-model transformations (e.g. from and to BPMN or to STP-IM) as
well as for model-to-text transformations (generating XPDL code, BPEL code,
etc.). -
Automatic layout mechanisms for workflow and process models: JWT does now include layout
algorithms for formatting the shown workflow model in different ways. Workflow
models can be arranged based on an horizontal tree, vertical or using a Spring
theme. These and other layout algorithms from the Eclipse project Zest have
been integrated into JWT. -
New converter: Old versions of JWT are now converted into version 0.7 using ATL
transformations. While the old converter transformed the model elements using
Java code, the new converter allows an easy adaptation to future changes of the
metamodel. Besides the mentioned changes, the project
team implemented an improved aspect handling, committed several bugfixes and improved
the performance of JWT significantly. Version 0.7 is a joint release by developers
of the University of Augsburg and the French company OpenWide SA. The University
of Augsburg is now an official (associate) member of the Eclipse Foundation. |