Adrian Mos

Gerald Preissler

Oliver Wolf

Building Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) requires a variety of tools and platforms. Eclipse provides these in two projects:

The Eclipse SOA Tools Platform Project provides several editors and tools for designing business processes and architectures based on standards such as BPMN and SCA. Although individual editors can be very useful within their own scope, integrating several SOA tools together adds significant value to the user. The integration helps by maintaining consistency between common artefacts, avoiding duplication and errors, as well as by increasing productivity through automatic generation of appropriate constructs. In Eclipse STP, the Intermediate Model (IM) component aims at integrating the different tools by providing a conceptual SOA bridge that can transport useful elements between editors.

The Eclipse Swordfish project provides an OSGi-based framework for the development of service-oriented applications. Out of the box, it provides a web service stack integrated into Eclipse that can be used to develop web service applications. It comes into its own when the extension points it provides are used to add functionality, e.g. by integrating it into an enterprise environment with central service registry, security services and management or by adding customer-defined message processing features transparently.

This tutorial will give an in-depth look at SOA development with Eclipse from different perspectives.

In the first part, we will show how several Eclipse SOA editors can be used together in an integrated manner and how this significantly improves productivity. We will

• go through a complete SOA application development example, starting with a business process definition using BPMN and continuing with architecture specification using SCA and Policy editors
• show how the application can be deployed and executed on different SOA runtime platforms, including but not restricted to Swordfish.
• illustrate the integration of the different tools by a "behind-the-scenes" look at the IM component showing SOA elements as they are being moved between editors.

The second part will provide a more detailed development example using Swordfish. We will

• deploy an application developed earlier into the Eclipse SOA Runtime (a.k.a. Swordfish), including aspects like dynamic deployment into an active runtime and
• show how the deployed application can be tested and debugged

The third part of the tutorial will cover the options that Swordfish offers the infrastructure developer to extend the basic SOA functionality with custom capabilities. We will

• provide an overview of the extensible nature of the Swordfish framework
• discuss the extension points that allow the integration of custom functionality into the SOA runtime
• walk through the implementation of an extension plug-in

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