Re: [stp-dev] When to use the Service Creation wizards for SCA

[Oisin Hurley <ohurley@xxxxxxxx>]

> Does anyone have a good overview of the use case for the SCA project  
> wizard in STP Service Creation?

This could be a historical thing. STP is intended to bring SCA tools
to open source - it's one of our goals. In STP-SC we developed the
Annotation Validation Framework to help JAX-WS developers, but since
the SCA Java programming model is also annotation-driven, and since
a framework needs >1 use to make it real, we also did the work for
SCA 1.0. So STP-SC helps people who are developing using the SCA
Java programming spec. At least that's the intent.

To actually make it useful, we added the deployment piece too.

> How does it tie in with the tooling provided by the STP SCA sub- 
> project?

It doesn't - at least not yet. Post-Ganymede we are going to have to
pull all this together to have a coherent offering!

>  When would a user choose one over the other?

I think if a user wanted to do SCA development, they should pick
STP-SCA to do it and work with the 'normal' level of Java capabilities
in the Eclipse IDE. STP-SCA doesn't provide anything near what you
need to understand and develop using the SCA concepts.

Adventurous users can take some of the plugins from STP-SC and
see how they might integrate with STP-SCA, to augment the Java
editing capabilities. Then they might even want to submit a
patch! :)

 cheers
  --oh

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