[stp-dev] Fwd: Call for Eclipse tools work items

[Oisin Hurley <ohurley@xxxxxxxx>]

Input from the Tuscany dev-list on some work items:

Begin forwarded message:

> I recently spent some time developing SCA sample applications for  
> Tuscany (working on the WS-I supply-chain scenario, plus some more  
> changes to BigBank that I'll probably drop next week). I have been  
> happily using the Eclipse WTP tools for XSDs and WSDLs but I could  
> have used some good SCA tools to help me write all the SCA  
> artifacts :) so here's my wish list for your STP SCA tooling:
>
> - Get the SCA XSDs registered in the Eclipse XML catalog to get XSD  
> based validation of SCDL files and content assist in the XML  
> editor. That's what I did by hand in my environment and I found it  
> very useful.
> - Support for the SCA 0.96 assembly model in the STP core model.
> - Introspection of Java and C++ components and Web services to type  
> properties, services and references.
> - An eclipse validator that provides further validation of my SCDLs  
> (checks SCA wires for example) and provides nice error reporting.
> - An SCDL editor with more SCA content assist (which will list all  
> interfaces available to you when you create a service or reference  
> or potential targets of a reference for example).
> - An Eclipse project structure that will allow me to create SCA  
> composites and assemble them... somehow.
> - A magic button that takes one or more of my projects to the  
> Tuscany runtime, or something that does it in the background  
> without me having to think about it.
>
> When is your next Milestone? When you have something that works  
> with the latest SCA spec level I'll be interested in trying it for  
> my SCA application development and helping test it.