Getting started

The SCA project provides a set of tools for the Service Component Architecture (SCA) set of standards:

• The SCA Meta Model, an extensible EMF meta model based on the SCA specifications version 1.0 proposed by the Open SOA consortium + an extension for Tuscany + an extension for FraSCAti.
• The SCA Composite Designer, a graphical (GMF) development environment for the construction of composite applications (see figure below).
• The SCA XML Editor for composite and componentType files.
• The SCA Form Editor, an editor based on Eclipse forms for SCA assembly files.
• The SCA Builder to validate SCA artifacts.
• The SCA Launcher to run and debug SCA Java projects on SCA platforms from Eclipse.
• The SCA Composite to Java Generator to generate Java code skeletons from an SCA composite.
• The SCA Composite Introspection tool to construct SCA assembly files in a bottom-up approach from existing POJO and component type files.
• The SCA Semantics tool to annotate components, services, and references with SAWSDL.
• The SCA Samples, a set of ready to use SCA projects to discover SCA and the SCA tools.

For more details on the SCA project take a look at our wiki page.