workinggroups/content/en_soawg.php - www.eclipse.org/org - Git at Google


            
            <?php

            
            /**

            
             * Copyright (c) 2013, 2018 Eclipse Foundation.

            
             *

            
             * This program and the accompanying materials are made

            
             * available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0

            
             * which is available at https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/

            
             *

            
             * Contributors:

            
             *   Christopher Guindon (Eclipse Foundation) - Initial implementation

            
             *   Mike Milinkovich (Eclipse Foundation)

            
             *   Eric Poirier (Eclipse Foundation)

            
             *

            
             * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0

            
             */

            
            ?>

            
            <div id="maincontent">

            
              <div id="midcolumn">

            
                <h1><?php print $pageTitle; ?></h1>

            
                <p>

            
                  <strong>SOA WG HAS BEEN TERMINATED</strong>

            
                </p>

            
                <p>Version October 14, 2009 (Approved)</p>

            
                <h2>Charter</h2>

            
                <h3>Purpose and Scope</h3>

            
                <p>The SOA platforms used across industries are characterized by vendor-specific offerings

            
                  lacking interoperability, e.g. between different ESBs. Although Web Service and REST

            
                  technologies are widely accepted, they are neither sufficient to build a SOA nor to ensure

            
                  interoperability between SOA products. A common SOA platform, based on Eclipse or any other

            
                  technology, has not been adopted across the software industry.</p>

            
                <p>With Eclipse SOA Tooling Platform (STP) and Eclipse SOA Runtime (Swordfish) key technologies

            
                  are available for design time and runtime that have the potential to establish a common SOA

            
                  platform. Moreover, the Eclipse Ecosystem assembles all major vendors of Java-based SOA

            
                  platforms necessary to establish such a common SOA platform.</p>

            
                <p>The goal of the proposed Industry Working Group, to be called the "Eclipse SOA Initiative",

            
                  will be to define, implement and promote a common Equinox-based SOA platform including both

            
                  design time and runtime components. By adopting this platform the different vendor platforms

            
                  achieve interoperability. The Eclipse SOA Initiative will be the forum for collaboration

            
                  between the industry players on the vendor and user side to define and deliver a common SOA

            
                  platform, it will facilitate collaboration between existing SOA-related Eclipse projects, and

            
                  initiate new projects based on identified un-met requirements.</p>

            
                <h3>Description of Deliverables</h3>

            
                <p>The Eclipse SOA Initiative will focus on the following areas:</p>

            
                <ol>

            
                  <li>It will define and maintain requirements and a roadmap that defines a SOA platform and

            
                    encourage broader participation from different solution providers. All requirements are

            
                    evaluated with respect to the overarching goal of providing an interoperable SOA Platform.

            
                    Requirements to integrate with technologies that are not part of the SOA Platform are

            
                    considered out of scope by the SOA IWG.</li>

            
                  <li>It will define the technical requirements for an Eclipse package "Eclipse SOA" and specify

            
                    the set of relevant Eclipse projects (so called "Eclipse SOA projects") to implement these

            
                    requirements. The initial set of relevant projects is listed in the appendix. This set of

            
                    Eclipse SOA projects will be revised on a regular basis.</li>

            
                  <li>It will collaborate with the Eclipse Packaging Project (EPP) to deliver an extensible

            
                    Eclipse SOA package branded with a brand to be established (see 5.1.)</li>

            
                  <li>It will create a set of best practices and extension mechanisms that simplify the use of

            
                    the Eclipse SOA platform by a wide range of application developers and SOA vendors through a

            
                    common set of test suites, training materials and documentation. (That may belong into the

            
                    new top-level project)</li>

            
                  <li>It will develop a consistent communication and promotion program to help raise the

            
                    awareness of the Eclipse SOA platform in the software industry. The promotion program

            
                    includes:

            
                    <ol>

            
                      <li>The establishment of a brand including logo (see a draft in the attachment), which can

            
                        be used for marketing purposes under certain rules. The rules will be governed in the

            
                        Eclipse SOA Initiative as well.</li>

            
                      <li>The promotion of products and services of its members around the Eclipse SOA platform

            
                        on the website of the Eclipse SOA Initiative.</li>

            
                    </ol>

            
                  </li>

            
                  <li>It will define measurable criteria that allow interested parties outside the Eclipse SOA

            
                    Initiative to benefit from their commitment to the Eclipse SOA platform. The fulfilment of

            
                    these criteria needs to be approved by the Steering Committee. Currently, four distinct

            
                    groups of parties have been identified that should be addressed by such a program. The

            
                    program does include a listing on the website of the Eclipse SOA Initiative:

            
                    <ol>

            
                      <li>Product vendors: Product vendors that build products based on Eclipse SOA platform

            
                        will be eligible to use the "Eclipse SOA Product" logo for the specific product and

            
                        training materials.</li>

            
                      <li>Add-in vendors: Product vendors that create add-ins to Swordfish or any other Eclipse

            
                        SOA component will be eligible to use the "Eclipse SOA Add-in" logo.</li>

            
                      <li>System integrators: System integrators that demonstrate their expertise in using

            
                        Eclipse SOA technology in customer projects are eligible to use the "Eclipse SOA

            
                        Integrator" logo. The logo can also be used for training materials by these system

            
                        integrators.</li>

            
                      <li>Industry Working Group Members: Members of the Eclipse SOA Initiative contributing to

            
                        the Eclipse SOA platform will be eligible to use the "Eclipse SOA Member" logo.</li>

            
                    </ol>

            
                  </li>

            
                </ol>

            
                </p>

            
                <p>Note, that membership in the Eclipse SOA Initiative is not a prerequisite for the product

            
                  vendors, add-in vendors and system integrators. In order to provide incentives to A) form a

            
                  coherent and integrated SOA platform, and B) to promote adoption, there will be a set of

            
                  criteria for product vendors and system integrator. This set of criteria will cover as well

            
                  for the tooling and as well for the runtime. The fulfilment of either tooling only or runtime

            
                  only will be not sufficient to use the logo for product vendor or system integrators.</p>

            
                <p>The Eclipse SOA Initiative will not create or publish a specification as part of its

            
                  deliverables.</p>

            
                <h3>Eclipse SOA Initiative Participation Guidelines</h3>

            
                <p>The Eclipse SOA Initiative participation guidelines define the obligations for participants.

            
                  The participants are expected to fulfil these obligations to be considered in good standing.</p>

            
                <p>Steering Committee Members are required to:</p>

            
                <ul>

            
                  <li>Be Strategic or Enterprise member of the Eclipse Foundation</li>

            
                  <li>Appoint at least 3 developers to implement requirements agreed in the Industry Working

            
                    Group to creating the Eclipse SOA platform. These developers will work in one of the

            
                    relevant Eclipse projects ("Eclipse SOA projects") selected by the Eclipse SOA Initiative.

            
                    The members are free in their choice into which of the relevant projects these developers

            
                    are assigned to (e.g. tooling only).</li>

            
                  <li>The IWG will require resources on an irregular basis working in requirements management,

            
                    marketing/branding and strategy. It is expected that all steering committee members

            
                    participate equally in those efforts.</li>

            
                  <li>Regularly participate in all Industry Working Group meetings and provide timely feedback

            
                    on the Industry Working Group documents</li>

            
                  <li>Provide announcement support for the Eclipse SOA platform and ongoing promotion to

            
                    application developers.</li>

            
                </ul>

            
                </p>

            
                <p>Member Participants are required to:</p>

            
                <ul>

            
                  <li>Be a voting Eclipse Foundation Member (Committer, Solution, Enterprise or Strategic)</li>

            
                  <li>Appoint at least 1 developer to implement requirements agreed in the Industry Working

            
                    Group to creating the Eclipse SOA platform. These developers will work in one of the

            
                    relevant Eclipse projects ("Eclipse SOA projects") selected by the Eclipse SOA Initative.

            
                    The members are free in their choice into which of the relevant projects these developers

            
                    are assigned to (e.g. tooling only).</li>

            
                  <li>Regularly participate in all Industry Working Group meetings and provide timely feedback

            
                    on the Industry Working Group documents.</li>

            
                  <li>For corporate members, provide announcement support for the Eclipse SOA platform and

            
                    ongoing promotion to application developers.</li>

            
                </ul>

            
                </p>

            
                <h3>Proposed Schedule</h3>

            
                <ul>

            
                  <li>Q3/09 Publish Charter; Gather bigger community and recruit two or more (Expectation of 4)

            
                    industry players.</li>

            
                  <li>Q3/09 Define technical roadmap. The goal is to create the following documents by end of

            
                    Q3/09:

            
                    <ul>

            
                      <li>Detailed use-cases outlining the user experience of an Eclipse SOA platform</li>

            
                      <li>High level requirements with straw man architecture</li>

            
                      <li>List of dependencies on existing Eclipse Projects</li>

            
                      <li>List of missing components and a brief description of each</li>

            
                    </ul>

            
                  </li>

            
                  <li>Q3/09 Start work with the existing projects (e.g. STP, Swordfish and BPEL) to create a

            
                    pre-packaged Eclipse SOA platform. Major next milestones for releases of the Eclipse SOA

            
                    platform are Eclipse Summit Europe 2009, EclipseCON 2010 and the Eclipse Helios Release.</li>

            
                  <li>Propose and initiate an Eclipse Service Registry/Repository project in Q4/09 as this is

            
                    considered a central piece of a SOA platform.</li>

            
                </ul>

            
                </p>

            
                <h3>Feedback</h3>

            
                <p>

            
                  Please send comments and feedback to <a href="mailto:soa-iwg@eclipse.org">soa-iwg@eclipse.org</a>.

            
                  Please also use the mailing list to express your desire to participate in the working group.

            
                  Go <a href="https://accounts.eclipse.org/mailing-list/soa-iwg">here</a> to subscribe to the

            
                  mailing list and view the archives.

            
                </p>

            
                <h3>Industry Working Group Process</h3>

            
                <p>

            
                  The Eclipse SOA Initative will follow the <a

            
                    href="/org/industry-workgroups/industry_wg_process.php"

            
                  >Eclipse Industry Working Group Process</a>.

            
                </p>

            
              </div>

            
            </div>
	<?php
	/**
	* Copyright (c) 2013, 2018 Eclipse Foundation.
	*
	* This program and the accompanying materials are made
	* available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
	* which is available at https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
	*
	* Contributors:
	* Christopher Guindon (Eclipse Foundation) - Initial implementation
	* Mike Milinkovich (Eclipse Foundation)
	* Eric Poirier (Eclipse Foundation)
	*
	* SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
	*/
	?>
	<div id="maincontent">
	<div id="midcolumn">
	<h1><?php print $pageTitle; ?></h1>
	<p>
	<strong>SOA WG HAS BEEN TERMINATED</strong>
	</p>
	<p>Version October 14, 2009 (Approved)</p>
	<h2>Charter</h2>
	<h3>Purpose and Scope</h3>
	<p>The SOA platforms used across industries are characterized by vendor-specific offerings
	lacking interoperability, e.g. between different ESBs. Although Web Service and REST
	technologies are widely accepted, they are neither sufficient to build a SOA nor to ensure
	interoperability between SOA products. A common SOA platform, based on Eclipse or any other
	technology, has not been adopted across the software industry.</p>
	<p>With Eclipse SOA Tooling Platform (STP) and Eclipse SOA Runtime (Swordfish) key technologies
	are available for design time and runtime that have the potential to establish a common SOA
	platform. Moreover, the Eclipse Ecosystem assembles all major vendors of Java-based SOA
	platforms necessary to establish such a common SOA platform.</p>
	<p>The goal of the proposed Industry Working Group, to be called the "Eclipse SOA Initiative",
	will be to define, implement and promote a common Equinox-based SOA platform including both
	design time and runtime components. By adopting this platform the different vendor platforms
	achieve interoperability. The Eclipse SOA Initiative will be the forum for collaboration
	between the industry players on the vendor and user side to define and deliver a common SOA
	platform, it will facilitate collaboration between existing SOA-related Eclipse projects, and
	initiate new projects based on identified un-met requirements.</p>
	<h3>Description of Deliverables</h3>
	<p>The Eclipse SOA Initiative will focus on the following areas:</p>
	<ol>
	<li>It will define and maintain requirements and a roadmap that defines a SOA platform and
	encourage broader participation from different solution providers. All requirements are
	evaluated with respect to the overarching goal of providing an interoperable SOA Platform.
	Requirements to integrate with technologies that are not part of the SOA Platform are
	considered out of scope by the SOA IWG.</li>
	<li>It will define the technical requirements for an Eclipse package "Eclipse SOA" and specify
	the set of relevant Eclipse projects (so called "Eclipse SOA projects") to implement these
	requirements. The initial set of relevant projects is listed in the appendix. This set of
	Eclipse SOA projects will be revised on a regular basis.</li>
	<li>It will collaborate with the Eclipse Packaging Project (EPP) to deliver an extensible
	Eclipse SOA package branded with a brand to be established (see 5.1.)</li>
	<li>It will create a set of best practices and extension mechanisms that simplify the use of
	the Eclipse SOA platform by a wide range of application developers and SOA vendors through a
	common set of test suites, training materials and documentation. (That may belong into the
	new top-level project)</li>
	<li>It will develop a consistent communication and promotion program to help raise the
	awareness of the Eclipse SOA platform in the software industry. The promotion program
	includes:
	<ol>
	<li>The establishment of a brand including logo (see a draft in the attachment), which can
	be used for marketing purposes under certain rules. The rules will be governed in the
	Eclipse SOA Initiative as well.</li>
	<li>The promotion of products and services of its members around the Eclipse SOA platform
	on the website of the Eclipse SOA Initiative.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>It will define measurable criteria that allow interested parties outside the Eclipse SOA
	Initiative to benefit from their commitment to the Eclipse SOA platform. The fulfilment of
	these criteria needs to be approved by the Steering Committee. Currently, four distinct
	groups of parties have been identified that should be addressed by such a program. The
	program does include a listing on the website of the Eclipse SOA Initiative:
	<ol>
	<li>Product vendors: Product vendors that build products based on Eclipse SOA platform
	will be eligible to use the "Eclipse SOA Product" logo for the specific product and
	training materials.</li>
	<li>Add-in vendors: Product vendors that create add-ins to Swordfish or any other Eclipse
	SOA component will be eligible to use the "Eclipse SOA Add-in" logo.</li>
	<li>System integrators: System integrators that demonstrate their expertise in using
	Eclipse SOA technology in customer projects are eligible to use the "Eclipse SOA
	Integrator" logo. The logo can also be used for training materials by these system
	integrators.</li>
	<li>Industry Working Group Members: Members of the Eclipse SOA Initiative contributing to
	the Eclipse SOA platform will be eligible to use the "Eclipse SOA Member" logo.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	</ol>
	</p>
	<p>Note, that membership in the Eclipse SOA Initiative is not a prerequisite for the product
	vendors, add-in vendors and system integrators. In order to provide incentives to A) form a
	coherent and integrated SOA platform, and B) to promote adoption, there will be a set of
	criteria for product vendors and system integrator. This set of criteria will cover as well
	for the tooling and as well for the runtime. The fulfilment of either tooling only or runtime
	only will be not sufficient to use the logo for product vendor or system integrators.</p>
	<p>The Eclipse SOA Initiative will not create or publish a specification as part of its
	deliverables.</p>
	<h3>Eclipse SOA Initiative Participation Guidelines</h3>
	<p>The Eclipse SOA Initiative participation guidelines define the obligations for participants.
	The participants are expected to fulfil these obligations to be considered in good standing.</p>
	<p>Steering Committee Members are required to:</p>
	<ul>
	<li>Be Strategic or Enterprise member of the Eclipse Foundation</li>
	<li>Appoint at least 3 developers to implement requirements agreed in the Industry Working
	Group to creating the Eclipse SOA platform. These developers will work in one of the
	relevant Eclipse projects ("Eclipse SOA projects") selected by the Eclipse SOA Initiative.
	The members are free in their choice into which of the relevant projects these developers
	are assigned to (e.g. tooling only).</li>
	<li>The IWG will require resources on an irregular basis working in requirements management,
	marketing/branding and strategy. It is expected that all steering committee members
	participate equally in those efforts.</li>
	<li>Regularly participate in all Industry Working Group meetings and provide timely feedback
	on the Industry Working Group documents</li>
	<li>Provide announcement support for the Eclipse SOA platform and ongoing promotion to
	application developers.</li>
	</ul>
	</p>
	<p>Member Participants are required to:</p>
	<ul>
	<li>Be a voting Eclipse Foundation Member (Committer, Solution, Enterprise or Strategic)</li>
	<li>Appoint at least 1 developer to implement requirements agreed in the Industry Working
	Group to creating the Eclipse SOA platform. These developers will work in one of the
	relevant Eclipse projects ("Eclipse SOA projects") selected by the Eclipse SOA Initative.
	The members are free in their choice into which of the relevant projects these developers
	are assigned to (e.g. tooling only).</li>
	<li>Regularly participate in all Industry Working Group meetings and provide timely feedback
	on the Industry Working Group documents.</li>
	<li>For corporate members, provide announcement support for the Eclipse SOA platform and
	ongoing promotion to application developers.</li>
	</ul>
	</p>
	<h3>Proposed Schedule</h3>
	<ul>
	<li>Q3/09 Publish Charter; Gather bigger community and recruit two or more (Expectation of 4)
	industry players.</li>
	<li>Q3/09 Define technical roadmap. The goal is to create the following documents by end of
	Q3/09:
	<ul>
	<li>Detailed use-cases outlining the user experience of an Eclipse SOA platform</li>
	<li>High level requirements with straw man architecture</li>
	<li>List of dependencies on existing Eclipse Projects</li>
	<li>List of missing components and a brief description of each</li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li>Q3/09 Start work with the existing projects (e.g. STP, Swordfish and BPEL) to create a
	pre-packaged Eclipse SOA platform. Major next milestones for releases of the Eclipse SOA
	platform are Eclipse Summit Europe 2009, EclipseCON 2010 and the Eclipse Helios Release.</li>
	<li>Propose and initiate an Eclipse Service Registry/Repository project in Q4/09 as this is
	considered a central piece of a SOA platform.</li>
	</ul>
	</p>
	<h3>Feedback</h3>
	<p>
	Please send comments and feedback to <a href="mailto:soa-iwg@eclipse.org">soa-iwg@eclipse.org</a>.
	Please also use the mailing list to express your desire to participate in the working group.
	Go <a href="https://accounts.eclipse.org/mailing-list/soa-iwg">here</a> to subscribe to the
	mailing list and view the archives.
	</p>
	<h3>Industry Working Group Process</h3>
	<p>
	The Eclipse SOA Initative will follow the <a
	href="/org/industry-workgroups/industry_wg_process.php"
	>Eclipse Industry Working Group Process</a>.
	</p>
	</div>
	</div>