[news.eclipse.technology.swordfish] Re: difference Swordfish vs. current

[Gerald Preissler <Gerald.Preissler@xxxxxxxxx>]

Christian Mauro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can anyone tell me what will be the difference between the first version 
> of Swordfish in comparison to SOPERA 2.2?
>
> thanx
> Chris

Chris,

Swordfish will provide a framework for SOA runtime environments. It will 
implement the basic functionality you need to actually run an SOA 
platform. It will also provide extension points that abstract specific 
functionality (e.g., service lookup, policy processing). Swordfish will 
provide sample implementations for these extensions, but they are really 
meant to be replaced with more powerful implementations by someone who 
is customizing the framework to suit his own needs.

Currently we're refactoring the original SOPERA core library that you 
can find in the initial contribution to support the degree of modularity 
I've sketched out.

SOPERA ASF is a full featured SOA platform, currently including the core 
library and Swordfish when it is released, with runtime environment and 
tooling. It is extending the basic SOA capabilities with service lookup 
via a Service Registry, policy-based matching of providers and 
consumers, a central configuration system, system activity monitoring 
capabilities and much more. We're currently preparing the first open 
source release that is scheduled for end of March.

As an aside I'd like to mention that SOPERA's tooling components that 
are applicable from SOPERA will be contributed to the SOA Tools Project 
(http://www.eclipse.org/stp). We've already contributed our policy 
editor and proposed a general validation framework 
(http://wiki.eclipse.org/STP_Validation_Framework).

If you have more questions, please post them on this newsgroup.

best regards

	Jerry