Iona joins Eclipse, proposes SOA effort

Source: JavaWorld

Summary:
Melding the contemporary concepts of service-oriented architecture and open source, Iona Technologies is announcing its participation in the Eclipse Foundation and will propose an Eclipse SOA Tools Platform project.

The company is joining as an Eclipse Strategic Developer and will serve on the open source tools organization's board of directors, which votes on Eclipse policies.

Iona's SOA tools proposal would constitute the ninth top-level project at Eclipse, among other projects such as the Web tools and data tools projects, according to Iona and Eclipse officials. The project is intended to provide a developer tooling platform for SOA-based infrastructure, serving as a foundation from which an extensible toolset for building SOA applications can be developed, according to Iona.

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