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Some stats:
50 registered
31 attended live

Did you find this webinar useful?
81% (13) – Yes
13% (2) – Yes, but it was too technical
6% (1) – Yes, but it was not technical enough
0% (0) – No

Apparently not too bad!

One random, ok the best quote, from an attendee:

Chris Aniszczyk: Thanks Antoine… a great showcase of what you can do with an EMF model using things like GMF, EMF Validation, etc…

Thanks everyone for showing up. I notice that I should really split the exercise in two separate parts, one for business analysts and one for developers only. I’ll try to improve on that in the future.

And you know what ? I’ll be doing a webinar in March on Babel! More about it soon on my blog.

One quote shows randomly on the main website page. We will have a dedicated page for the quotes once the webmasters install json support on www.eclipse.org.

If you would like to contribute a quote to the BPMN subproject, just comment this bug. It takes two minutes and it helps a lot!

I made a page to help people access the source code of the BPMN modeler here:
http://www.eclipse.org/bpmn/source_code.php

It contains several teamsets that I am sure people will find nice to use to import the projects simply.

The source code location is updated to the new location, everything is back in order now, even though it’d be great to check the build system.

Looking forward to your feedback (when you’re done having fun over there in Germany).

Would you like to see more ? Please let us know if you are up for a BoF or a lengthier session.

Those screenshots are taken from the samples. Contribute one today!

To enter a bug, you need to enter a bug under the product BPMN, not the component org.eclipse.stp.bpmn.
Here is a link to enter one for example:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=BPMN

The website moved from http://www.eclipse.org/stp/bpmn to www.eclipse.org/bpmn.

I have added a redirecting mechanism. Make sure you update your bookmarks!

Questions, suggestions, discussions are welcome.

The BPMN modeler is currently evolving from the status of component to sub-project.

Please come discuss the proposal on the newsgroup if you are interested.

For Java developers, it’s now possibly to create an SCA assembly definition and then generate Java code from it. And, if you want to start with some Java you already have, we’ve added a special introspector that will investigate your code and automatically produce an SCA assembly.

Once you’ve created your Java SCA project, you can then run and debug it using the great facilities that Eclipse provides.

We also have made sure that the SCA artifacts you might create are properly validated, helping you spot mistakes early in the process.

We even took the time to update the graphics, giving us a prettier SCA Composite Designer.

For me, the most exciting feature is how we’ve developed the core SCA model to be extensible by people who want to write in extra capabilities into the tools. The heart of the model contains the SCA standard specifications, and different extensions have been created to support the key Open Source SCA runtimes - Apache Tuscany 1.4 and Frascati 0.5. Using the extension mechanisms, it is much more straightforward to add new concepts to SCA and extend the tools to include them.

SCA Tools has been improved a lot. Download SCA Tools 2.0.0 now!

• The tutorial, Towards Integrated SOA Development with Eclipse STP and Swordfish (Monday, 13:30, 4 hours, Room 207), is not exclusively about SCA. It demonstrates how SOA applications can be developed and run using the tools and runtimes provided by the STP project and the Swordfish project.
• Vincent will also present the new & noteworthy features of the SCA Tools project (Tuesday, 13:50, 10 minutes, Room 209/210). This talk will be part of the track titled “SOA Track Set” that is a collection of short talks about different STP projects.

You can check the status of the build on the Eclipse Hudson server. You will need to log in with your build.eclipse.org credentials to see the results. On that page you will find zip files which are archived update sites of the builds.

Two components of the STP (SOA Tools Platform) project are closed (STP-SC and STP-SOAS). But, it’s not a negative sign. On the contrary! It’s a sign of maturity.

These two components are closed because for a while now they were no longer maintained. But STP is not dead. Last year, the STP project grew with the arrival of many new tools for SOA: STP-IM, STP-Policy, STP-EID, SCA Tools. These components/projets are still alive and they are very active. More over, the ‘historical” components of STP have never been so active. Since two weeks, the BPMN modeler is a sub-project of STP.

So, it was the time for STP to be restructured to keep a clear line.

Thanks to Laurent, from the EMF Compare project, I added a gradient of color on each element of the modeler.

Before:

Now:

I think it’s better, what do you think?

Currently, the SCA designer with these new colors is only available on the svn. However, we plan to provide quickly a new build.
This build will provide another new feature: extension points to add easily new/specific SCA elements in the designer (Thanks Norihiro!).

As usual, if you want to know more about the SCA Tools project, please have a look at our wiki.

Next steps?
Many new features are planned or already available in the svn:

• An XML editor for assembly files and component types (svn)
• Some tools to test SCA applications (planned)
• An editor for composite files based on Eclipse forms (planned)
• Meta model extensibility, SCA Composite designer extensibility also (in progress)
• New icons (svn)
• SCA nature and SCA perspective (svn)
• New colors for the SCA Composite Designer (less aggressive
• … have a look on the SCA Tools wiki

Any contribution/suggestion/help is welcome…

You are welcome to read the proposal, comment it and join us* !

* allow 48h for the newsgroup to be functional though.

Our main goals for the 1.1 release so far are:

• Implement quick fixes: we have added validation to our diagrams, now we want people to be able to right-click and fix the problem they encounter.
• Add an export tool a la Eclipse Spaces. Be able to deploy a diagram as a zip file, associated with an image and a description.
• Package the BPMN modeler as part of a modeling practitioners Eclipse Product (see bug 240141)

Feel free to comment on the bug!

Grab it here and start modeling in minutes.

Would you have any problems using it, please file a bug at the usual location or ask for help on the eclipse.stp newsgroup or by IRC: #eclipse-stp.

Cross-posting from the Intalio blog…

Thanks to the Babel team too to bear with us and give us such a great tool!

If you are interested in translating your favorite Eclipse project, just register and start right away.

If that wasn’t enough, he contributed a patch today, along with Anshu.

We have been following Ed’s advice, always answer on the newsgroups, and so far it is paying off.

Hugues Malphettes will be presenting the BPMN modeler from the inside at the Intalio user conference, particularly focusing on how to extend it.

The Intalio User Conference will take place on the 17th and 18th of June 2008 in San Francisco.

Feel free to drop in, we will be happy to discuss with you over a coffee.

RC1 binaries will be available on the 21st of May, thanks to Oisin.

Go, grab the code, and get ready for some wow effect with our new shadow support.

We had a crowd of 15 people, and despite us having some bumps in the road, I got a very nice comment about the quality of the examples and there was also some keen interest from people that are already using Camel.

Our biggest issue was that we couldn’t deploy routes in the container if Java 6 was running At the end of the tutorial, one of the attendees came up and said that this was probably because of a clash with JAXB. Basically the ServiceMix 4 container had a JAXB bundle deployed in it for use with Java 5, but since Java 6 has JAXB built-in, there could have been some horrible clash going on. The workaround is to spot the JAXB plugins in the container and osgi uninstall them to remove them from the bundle cache, then restart.

Andrea (STP-IM committer) couldn’t get the EID to start up with the Ganymede distribution on the stick. Everything seemed to be in place, with no errors, but none of the EID contributions were active. There’s a bug223024 for this.

There was a couple of other bumps too - sometimes you could get two camelContext.xml synthesized bundles, and they seemed to upset each other. Simple workaround - just osgi uninstall both the offenders. I was really glad of the ServiceMix 4 kernel console!

I got some questions about capabilities: why is the graph bound to an ESB? Couldn’t each component be bound to different ESBs? How about sub-graphs? Wouldn’t it be useful to be able to see a component and when you drill into it, it’s actually another graph of finer-grained EIPs?

Some good questions there - I think the sub-graph idea is good, especially if you want to have reusable EIPs that you have created within your own organization. As was pointed out to me, you could have the graphs bound to ESBs if you had the sub-graphing concept and still have the flexibility to have an overall integration that covers different runtimes. I think covering multiple runtimes simultaneously is something that is just unavoidable in the real world.

Another thing : the Apache Camel ‘DSL’ - which allows the construction of routes using plain old Java - is the foremost way of making routes right now. If we could generate these Java fluent builders from the patterns diagrams, it would be a great starting point for developers.

All of the examples, code, etc, will be put up on the website at some point for download. Because we only got up to three little green patterns (LGPs?), and Gregor and Bobby’s book has 65 of them, a series of examples for each new pattern that we support would be the way to go. So maybe we’ll have a long-running series on our hands

We are now starting to work on the EclipseCon tutorial.

We have created two wiki pages:

• One for using the modeler.

We will add here all the nice things that make day to day modeling with this tool fun and eventually useful.

• One for extending the modeler.

There you will get the crunchy bits on how to develop on top of the BPMN modeler. There has been more demand on that area, so we will probably start by them.

Anyway, any questions ? We welcome any help, in particular code samples to populate those pages, and the SVN.

Thanks for reading!

The BPMN team