<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 &quot;the specification&quot;) proposed by the <a
	href="http://www.osoa.org/display/Main/Home">Object Management
Group</a>.</p>