| <p>The mission of the <a |
| href="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project_summary.php?projectid=soa">SOA |
| Project</a> is to build frameworks and extensible tools that enable the |
| design, configuration, assembly, deployment, monitoring, and management |
| of software designed around a Service Oriented Architecture. The project |
| is guided by the values of transparency, extensibility, vendor |
| neutrality, community collaboration, agile development, and |
| standards-based innovation.</p> |
| |
| <p>There has been a lot of interest recently in the BPMN 2.0 specification, and many feel that what UML is to object modeling, |
| BPMN 2.0 will be to business process modeling and will become the de facto standard. |
| |
| <p>The BPMN 2.0 Modeler provides a graphical modeling tool which |
| allows creation and editing of BPMN ( <a href="http://www.bpmn.org/">Business |
| Process Modeling Notation</a> ) diagrams. The tool is built on <a |
| href="http://www.eclipse.org/graphiti">Eclipse Graphiti</a> and uses |
| the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/?project=bpmn2">BPMN 2.0 EMF meta model</a> currently being developed |
| within the Eclipse <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/">Model |
| Development Tools</a> (MDT) project. This meta model is compatible with the |
| <a href="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0/PDF">BPMN 2.0 |
| specification</a> (herafter "the specification") proposed by the <a |
| href="http://www.osoa.org/display/Main/Home">Object Management |
| Group</a>.</p> |
