There are quite a few Apache projects that Tuscany is already using in one
way or another. Looking through the list of all the projects on the Apache
web site gives some inspiration for other things that we could look into.
Here is a summary of a quick spin through the list trying to pick out the
Apache projects that we do/could use or that could possibly use Tuscany. In
reality I know very little of the details of these project so this is pure
speculation. But if there are experts out there with an interested in
Tuscany we could come up with some real ideas.
>From this list the MINA project looks immediately interesting to me as it
could help out with some more performant default bindings and 'in JVM'
bindings using pipe IO. Also the OFBiz project is something that I hadn't
come across before and could provide some useful use cases. The OFBiz site
talks about a "Loosely coupled multi-layer component architecture" and it
set me thinking about how their components might sit in an SCA runtime.
Anyhow if anyone has ideas (or time:-), or if this is already happening and
it just isn't very visible, then it would be great to hear.
ActiveMQ
We use in binding.jms and binding.ws
Are there adapters on ActiveMQ side that could be constructed
Coccon
Could we include SCA components in the component pipeline?
Commons
There are parts of Tuscany that could be more generally useful, for
example,
graph driven databinding framework
a scdl4j tool could be built
Validation
Could validation be used with SCDL
Data
Does DAS have a role here?
Directory
LDAP DAS
Use Directory as a registry implementation
Felix
We are using this for our OSGi support
Harmony
Could we get Tuscany running on Harmony?
James
Wrap James components with SCA services?
MINA
Could use as the domain transport
Develop a MINA binding
Myfaces (Tapestry, Struts, Tiles, Turbine, Wicket, Sling)
There are many tools related to web app development
We could certainly use some of these tools in any monitoring and
management apps we need but is there value in tighter integration?
For example, Turbine talks about SOA, could we provide some
infrastructure for them?
ODE
We are using this for our BPEL support
We could offer a patch to update their website to include Tuscany as a
user
OFBiz
Looks interesting as they talk of services and components and of service
based logic
OpenJPA
We use this in our new openJPA implementation
I don't know if we a re contributing to the project though.
Portals
Could we do something along the lines of wiring in portlets as part of an
SCA composite like we do with javascript
Velocity
Be interesting to have a velocity implementation type
Not sure how refs would be done
Synapse
Has been discussed on the mailing list. I believe, in the first instance,
the proposal is to use SCA composites as a configuration alternative.
Be interesting to look how be can introduce it to the SCA domain
Muse
We some management interfaces and WSDM is an option
Abdera
Use as an alternative Atom engine (we use Rome at the moment)
Cxf
Could resurrect the CxF binding. There used to be one but it doesn't work
anymore
CxF could have an SDO binding
FTP
Would be good to have an FTP binding in a similar vein to the HTTP
binding
Could be used as a deployment vehicle in the distributed runtime case
Lokai
Don't know the details of this but we need some management framework so
we should look to see what this does
Qpid
We could use as an alternative messaging transport. Plug into binding.jms
?
ServiceMix
We could connect to it
Could configuration be described (as has been proposed for Synapse).
Camel?
How could it be included in the SCA Domain?
StdCxx
I seem to remember discussion about this re. the Native runtime. Can't
remember whether we use it or not now.
XAP
Could we integrate with our Web2.0 story
Regards
Simon
