SOPERA Blog

Helios and Swordfish

It’s been a while since my last blog post here. We’ve been quite busy these last few days with the Eclipse 3.6 Helios release. We’ve contributed a very nice feature to the Swordfish SOA Runtime Framework Project: remote deployment. Using this new feature you can deploy locally developed Swordfish services into a remote OSGi server.

Swordfish Remote Deployment Dialog

This is a pretty fancy feature because with it you can take your OSGi bundles, pack them into a feature, and deploy them with one click onto a remote system. Behind-the-scenes, there is a complicated set of plug-in packaging and Eclipse p2 magic which makes sure that all the bundles are deployed in a consistent and atomic manner. Read the Swordfish New and Noteworthy for more information.

SOPERA SOA Tutorial

In this releases we’re also offering you a SOPERA SOA ASF tutorial. We have been working on Swordfish for over a year now, and many people have been asking us how Swordfish integrates itself within the SOPERA ASF product stack. Now we can show you how it works.
Just download the Eclipse SOA package and within the Eclipse IDE GUI, select Help > SOA > Install New Tutorials as shown here:

Eclipse SOA Tutorial

Select SOPERA SOA Tutorial: Rent a Car (OSGi) from the list.

Next, simply follow the instructions shown in the GUI.

The tutorial will demonstrate how to use the pluggable nature of Swordfish Runtime to integrate a standalone ESB Runtime into an enterprise-wide SOA infrastructure based on the SOPERA ASF.

Try it out and send us your feedback. If you have questions or need help, post your enquiries in our forum.

Renat Zubairov Development

SOPERA’s How-To Series

Sometime ago in SOPERA we decided that it might help our users if we were to produce a couple of “How-Tos” in which we would list tips, tricks, or describe the ways in which you can use various SOPERA product components effectively and quickly.

SOPERA’s code generator is currently designed to work only on Microsoft Windows Operating Systems. In this How-To, we’re going to show you how to run the SOPERA code generator in Linux.

Running the SOPERA Code Generator in Linux

To run the SOPERA code generator on Linux:

1. Zip the contents of the /ServiceStudio folder into a zip file.
2. Copy this servicestudio.zip file to you linux user home path (for example, in /home/soadev).
3. Extract the archive file to a directory (for example, into /opt/SOPERA/ServiceStudio).
4. Translate the cmd files set-env.cmd, build.cmd and codegen.cmd to a Linux sh file. Don’t forget to enable the execution of these sh files. They can be found in the folders: ServiceStudio/CodeGenerator , ServiceStudio/CodeGenerator/bin.
5. Create a soft link in the ServiceStudio/CodeGenerator folder:
   ln –s JeeWiz/resources/any/control JeeWiz\\resources\\any\\control
6. Enable the bash scripts’ ant file and and run to execute. The folder can be found in ServiceStudio/CodeGenerator/JeeWiz/external/ant1.7.0/bin.
7. Add a slash in line 36 of the includeSpec.vm file:
   Old: #set( $basicName="file:/${aSchema.xsdTargetFile}"
New: #set( $basicName="file://${aSchema.xsdTargetFile}"


   You can find the file in this folderServiceStudio/CodeGenerator/JeeWiz/SBBresources/SBBservice/control/schema.

8. Now, test your code generator!

Robert Lalyko Development Code Generator, Linux OS, SOPERA Code Generator