Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/07/eclipse_kills_soa_projects/
Eclipse kills open-source SOA projects
After the hype, the hurt
Posted in Developer, 7th November 2008 19:13 GMT
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The open-source Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/) Foundation is terminating several service-oriented architecture (SOA) projects thanks to lack of interest.
The Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF (http://www.eclipse.org/alf/)), initiated in 2005 to solve integration problems of application lifecycle management (ALM) for SOA developments, failed to attract committers beyond Serena Software (http://www.serena.com/), which uses ALF as the foundation for its ALM products and has been re-inventing itself as a "mash-up" provider. A review of the project, published (http://www.eclipse.org/project-slides/Eclipse%20ALF%20Archival%20Review%20Nov%202008%20v01.pdf) this week by Eclipse, said ALF will be closed next week, archived, and some components transferred to the Higgins (http://www.eclipse.org/higgins/) project.
Eclipse will also bring down the curtain on two sub-project streams of the SOA Tools Platform (STP (http://www.eclipse.org/stp/)). The STP Service Creation (STP-SC (http://www.eclipse.org/stp/sc/)) sub-project aimed to provide tool integration for SOA developers and the SOA System (STP-SOAS (http://www.eclipse.org/stp/soas/index.php)) set out to define developer APIs. Both will be closed next week, with lack of developer interest again flagged (http://www.eclipse.org/project-slides/stp-components-termination-review-12nov08.pdf) as the reason.
STP-SC originated from work by Iona Technologies (http://www.iona.com/), which said (http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.stp/msg00656.html) it would transfer some of its efforts to the Web Tools Platform (WTP (http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/)) project. STP-SOAS came originally from Sybase (http://www.sybase.com/), which has since withdrawn from the project. ®