Iona joins the eclipse alliance and becomes the initiator and leader of Eclipse's SOA project.
"The purpose of the SOA tools platform (STP) project is to provide developers with an integrated development platform based on the SOA architecture. the project will follow the Eclipse project model. This platform will be the basis of a series of extension tools (tools for developing or deploying SOA applications. iona will provide seed code for this project."
This is undoubtedly an eye-catching thing in the eclipse community, as mentioned in the speech:
"If this project is passed by ECLIPSE community, the STP project will be the 9th top-level projects of Eclipse"
Some features initially implemented by STP will include:
"Creating service consumers and providers, specifying ing physical attributes of a service, defining policies ies and governance for accessing or consuming services, locating or adding Services, and creating artifacts "and other basic requirements for SOA development ..
Iona Website: http://www.iona.com
Iona Chinese: http://www.iona.com.cn
Announcement site: http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1123923,00.html