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

[Christian Mauro <mauro@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

thank you very much! I have another question: I got the SOPERA 2.2 DVD 
and installed SOA platform and client/development tools. One thing I 
couldn't find was service orchestration. Will there be a integrated BPEL 
engine or something like that in the next release?

My Background: I'm a research assistent at the chair of information 
systems on the Technische Universität München. One part of our research 
deals with different aspects of SOA. Thus we want to set up some kind of 
"SOA lab" that enables us to offer practical oriented students' thesis. 
SOPERA was our first choice and we will give it a try the next months.

Hopefully I can visit your booth at the SOA Days 2008 in Bonn. But you 
know, money is tight on chairs. So if you have a free ticket left, let 
me know ;-)

best regards
Chris


Gerald Preissler schrieb:
> > can anyone tell me what will be the difference between the first 
> > version of Swordfish in comparison to SOPERA 2.2?
> 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