On Aug 16, 2006, at 8:42 AM, Kevin Williams wrote:
This is a nice succinct intro to the project. I like it.
haleh mahbod wrote:
Hi,
I am following the chapter in this book (http://producingoss.com/)
that
explains how to create an effective website, pages 22-25. It
suggests that a
good website provides the following information upfront
1) A clear mission statement
2) States whether this open source is free or not and what license
it is
under
3) It's content is progressive. It allows the reader to learn more
as he
reads more.
Based on this guideline I re-wrote the text on Tuscany website's
main page
as follows. It can still be improved. Would you review and
comment please?
Thanks
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of website
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Welcome to the Apache Tuscany free open source project that is
licensed
under version 2 of the Apache
License<http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0_>.
This project is currently in incubation within the Apache incubator.
The aim of the Apache Tuscany is to create, as a community, the
infrastructure that simplifies the development of business
solutions based
on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Users of Apache Tuscany
can create
SOA based solutions by combining new or existing services with
little or no
programming. They can also alter the solutions easily when business
requirements change.
I think this is an improvement over what we have but have a couple of
additional suggestions. Specifically, I don't think the statement
"with little or no programming" is something we want to claim. It is
not really accurate and the primary audience coming to the website I
imagine to be developers who by nature don't believe those kind of
statements. I would prefer the page to be oriented to developers,
with the particular purpose of recruiting those interested in writing
systems-level software, i.e. working on Tuscany. I find these types
to be generally skeptical by nature and focused on "cool technologies."
Some good examples to use for comparison would be Microsoft (who I
think has generally excellent developer marketing), Spring (Rod is
also a really good marketer too) and ServiceMix:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/winfx/technologies/communication/default.aspx
http://www.springframework.org/
http://www.servicemix.org/site/home.html
Based on these, I would rephrase and highlight the message that
developers can leverage Tuscany technologies to build out SOA-based
systems (as opposed to "business solutions"):
The aim of the Apache Tuscany is to create infrastructure that
simplifies the development of SOA-based systems. Tuscany technologies
may be used independently or in conjunction with other technologies
such as Spring, Axis, and Celtix to create and assemble composite
applications, or "service assemblies". Specifically, Tuscany provides:
- SCA-based Java and C++ runtimes for hosting and assembling services
which can be extended to support new communications transports,
qualities of service, and programming models
- An SDO implementation for representing and tracking data as it
flows across service assemblies
- A Data Access Service for declaratively accessing persistent data
in a service-oriented manner
The Tuscany project does this by providing implementations for the
Service
Component Architecture (SCA) and Service Data Objects (SDO)
specifications
and by providing a Data Access Service that supports SDO.
Specifications
for SDO and SCA can be found on www.osoa.org. Tuscany integrates
with well
established Web Services and server technologies such as Apache
Axis2,
Apache Tomcat and Geronimo.
A high level view of the Tuscany runtime is shown below. You can
click on
the diagram to learn more about specific technologies. Tuscany is
supported
in Java and C++.
<Diagram goes here>
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