SOA Tools Platform Project

Project Mission

The mission of the SOA Tools Platform (STP) project is to build frameworks and exemplary extensible tools that enable the design, configuration, assembly, deployment, monitoring, and management of software designed around a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The project is guided by the values of transparency, extensibility, vendor neutrality, community collaboration, agile development, and standards-based innovation. STP leverages the Service Component Architecture specification (SCA) as its model. STP is a natural complement to other Eclipse projects, such as the Web Tools Platform and Data Tools Platform, and reuses, as appropriate, components from these projects.

Active Projects

	STP BPMN (BPMN) The BPMN subproject provides an editor and a set of tools to model business processes diagrams using the BPMN notation.
	The STP Intermediate Metamodel (STP-IM) The STP Intermediate Metamodel (STP-IM) aims to facilitate the sharing of information between different editors in Eclipse STP.
	STP Policy Editor (POLICY) The STP policy editor is an Eclipse editor for editing WS-Policy content or other XML content that is based on XML-Schema with a graphical editor.
	STP SCA (SCA) The STP SCA subproject provides a graphical editor and a set of tools to model an SCA composite.

Inactive Projects

	STP Core Frameworks (CF) The STP Core subproject will define EMF models that conform to the SCA specification for Service Assembly as well as Java language components for SCA syntax support.
	STP SOA System (SOAS) The SOA System components will provide tools and frameworks for assembling, building, packaging and deploying Services to runtime containers. In addition support will be provided for the definition and association of Policy to Services prior to deployment.
	STP Service Creation (SC) While The STP "cf" and "soas" components will provide the APIs and mechanisms required to support and expand the modelling of SOANs under the chosen assembly paradigm, the SC component will handle the management of the relationship between the SOA model tooling provided by STP and the actual implementation tooling(s). The ultimate goal is to support the development of SOAN via tools fully integrated for top-down and bottom-up approaches as well as a mix of both in an agile way.
	STP BPEL 2 Java (B2J) The BPEL to Java (B2J) subproject will provide tools to translate BPEL into executable Java classes. It will also define a standard framework to which these executable Java classes can be deployed.
	STP Enterprise Integration Designer (EID) The STP EID subproject provides a graphical editor and code generation framework for Enterprise Integration Patterns