News: Helios is Out!
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.