[wtp-pmc] SOA Tools Project Proposal

[Arthur Ryman <ryman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I was reviewing the proposal from IONA
[1] and it appeared to me that there was some overlap with the scope of
WTP. The proposal includes work on several Web services specifications,
including WS-Security, WS-Policy, WS-AT, etc. These specs are not specific
to SOA and therefore are in the scope of WTP.

The SOA project plans to build on the
WTP WSDL editor to handle the extensions for these specs. I suggest that
we take the position that the work should be hosted in WTP since it is
in the WTP charter. On the other hand, the SOA project also plans to support
many non-standard WSDL bindings, ie JMS, MQ, Tibco,
CORBA . Those belong in the SOA project
since there is no standard for them.

We should offer to host the development
of extensions to WTP that are independent of SOA and are industry standards.
In addition to the WSDL editor extensions, we should also extend the WSDL
validator and the SOAP message monitor to handle the additional standards.

The upside is that the IONA developers
would become contributors to WTP and eventually committers, and they would
be able to enhance the WTP tools to make them more suitable for the other
SOA extensions.

[1] http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/stp/

Arthur Ryman,
IBM Software Group, Rational Division

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