Just as a short add-on to this announcement: the announcement of one of
the standalone RCP-applications on top of JWT:
It's already a while since the newest release of Eclipse with codename
Galileo has been released. This contained the newest version of the Java
Workflow Tooling (JWT) project. JWT is also the basis of the AgilPro
project which is a standalone RCP application that integrates all plugins
of the JWT release 0.6 but also additional features such as a
BPEL-codegeneration or a simulation of the processes.
Therefore, I am happy to announce that the newest version of AgilPro
(v1.6.0) has been released and is now available on SourceForge. The
AgilPro tool suite can be downloaded under the GPL at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/agilpro.
The new features of JWT have been described in an IBM developerWorks
article [1], the project JWT has been summarized by Ian Skerrett (Eclipse
Foundation) in his blog [2] and there was also an article about JWT in the
German speaking Eclipse magazine [3].
The most important features of JWT 0.6 and also of AgilPro 1.6.0 are new
views, e.g. UML activity diagrams or Event-driven process chains (EPC),
BPMN interoperability, several new code generations (e.g. XPDL) and the
collaboration with the friend SOA Tools Plattform (STP) project by
integration of an STP-IM-transformation and building an own SOA-focused
integrator named Scarbo as part of the OW2 consortium. Quite important for
the last release was also the aspect-oriented extension mechanism that is
now part of JWT which allows vendors to easily extend the JWT metamodel.
As last time, I'd like to say thanks to the whole project team for their
support and assistance!
If you have any feedback or comments, please don't hesitate to publish
them as a bug on the Eclipse Bugzilla (see www.eclipse.org/jwt) or contact
us here.