[news.eclipse.stp.sca-tools] Re: Using the SCA Designer as an abstract m

[Stephane Drapeau <Stephane.Drapeau@xxxxxxx>]

Mischa a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> I want to use the SCA Designer as a kind of abstract modeling tool. This 
> way I don't want to have any dependencies to SCA implementations like 
> the "Apache Tuscany".
> The SCA Designer generates a interface description like the following 
> one as default:
>
> <tuscany:interface.wsdl 
> xmlns:tuscany="http://tuscany.apache.org/xmlns/sca/1.0"; 
> interface="http://www.itemis.com/BLABLUB#wsdl.interface(BLUB)"/>
>
> Why I'm forced to use tusacany? Is there a way to remove this 
> impl-specific namespace (or to change to it to a spring specific one) in 
> the designer?
>
> regards,
> Mischa

Hi Mischa,

Currently the WSDL interface element is defined in the Open SOA 
namespace and not in the Tuscany one. It was a bug that we fixed in the 
last build [0]. Can you try the last version of the designer?

The following bindings (WebService, EJB, JMS), interfaces (Java, WSDL, 
C++, BPEL Partner Link), and implementations (Java, SCA, BPEL, C++, EJB, 
Spring, Web) are defined in the OSOA namespace, because they are defined 
by the Open SOA consortium.
The others bindings, implementations and interfaces are defined in the 
namespace of the SCA runtime that defines them. It's conceivable to have 
the same SCA element (for example the RMI binding) defined in a way by 
Tuscany and in another way by Frascati. So, the namespace is important.

If the namespace information isn't useful for you in your assembly file 
you can use an XSLT transformation that remove this information when you 
save the assembly file and an other transformation that add this 
information when you load the assembly file. Because, the SCA tools (xml 
editor, designer, tree viewer) need this information to work correctly.

In the plugin org.eclipse.stp.sca, in the directory xslt, you have two 
samples of XSLT transformations, one for the transformation sca to 
tuscany and an other for tuscany to sca. These transformations are not 
maintenained.

Regards,

Stephane Drapeau
Obeo

[0]: http://download.eclipse.org/stp/updates/galileo/site.xml