Eclipse Helios Release brings new SOA Functionality
BONN, Germany – June 23, 2010 – As a part of the new Eclipse Helios Release, the Eclipse SOA Industry Working Group (www.eclipse.org/eclipsesoa/) offers an updated version of its Eclipse SOA Platform. With the integrated SOA tooling, the platform allows developers to build and deploy custom services very easily. On the run-time-side, the platform offers an enterprise-ready SOA Framework with comprehensive functionality.
With the Eclipse Helios Release, available at June 23, 2010 (www.eclipse.org/downloads/), new features are integrated in the Eclipse SOA Platform. First of all, the platform now supports a com-fortable deployment of OSGI/ Equinox-based services. For developers that means less manual work and lower risks of faults during deploy-ment. As a result, developers also can concentrate more on the busi-ness-side of service development.
For a smooth start with the Eclipse SOA Platform, the IWG has further integrated an interactive tutorial wizard, which assists in setting up the SOA infrastructure and the development of services. With Helios, a first tutorial covering the basics of the platform is already available as part of the Eclipse SOA Platform download package. Further tutorials addressing more advanced SOA topics are already in work and will be released soon.
To make the first tutorial even more attractive, the IWG additionally has integrated a fully functional service registry. With the registry, developers can realize also more advanced SOA scenarios which are characterized by e.g. growing numbers of services or a distributed team of developers that need a central service store for a better coor-dination of service development processes.
While the new version of the Eclipse SOA Platform is available with the Eclipse Helios Release, the IWG already is working on new features for future releases. In detail, the IWG is focussing on SCA 1.1 support and new BPM and eBAM features. For information’s about new releases of the SOA Platform, please visit the initiatives website at www.eclipse.org/eclipsesoa.
Quotes from IWG Members
“With the Helios Release of Eclipse SOA, the IWG makes the next step in building up a complete, integrated and entirely open-source-based SOA Platform. Just two months after the foundation of the working group, the new features of the platform are showing the strong com-mitment of the IWG in the platforms successful further develop-ment.”
– Dr. Ricco Deutscher, CTO of SOPERA
“Obeo is proud to celebrate the Helios Release of Eclipse SOA, and to see the emergence of an integrated open-source SOA Platform. For us, one of the most exciting future features will be the integration of
SCA 1.1 as basis for cartography and migration tools. The SCA stan-dard appears as a great solution to refactor applications with inter-connections between legacy and modernized systems.”
– Dr. Stephane Drapeau, Obeo
“We are excited to participate in the launch of Eclipse Helios release. Engineering Group’s commitment is focused on making the next re-lease richer and more easy to use, also through eBAM and eBPM pro-jects.”
- Gabriele Ruffatti, Engineering Group
About the Eclipse SOA Industry Working Group
The goal of the Eclipse SOA Industry Working Group (http://www.eclipse.org/eclipsesoa/) is to define a common Equinox-based SOA platform, including tools and runtime components, that can be used by vendors, system integrators and enterprises for SOA deployments. The working group is a collaboration of industry players, including Engi-neering Group, itemis, Obeo and SOPERA. Each of these companies will use the Eclipse SOA platform for their own solutions. The collaboration is focusing on defining an 'Eclipse SOA package' that is available for download from eclipse.org and on the definition and implementation of future requirements for the SOA platform.