Introduction

In MacQuickStart you have seen how to setup the SOPERA ASF Infrastructure Server or SOPERA ASF Participant Server on Mac OS X. This page will describe how to get the SOPERA Tooling running.

SOPERA Tooling Overview

As you might already checked in Developer Tools User Guide SOPERA Tooling is only available for Windows right now and consists of following parts:

• SOPERA DevBox - this is a feature-complete, simplified version of SOPERA ASF Infrastructure running within single instance of Tomcat Web Container. DevBox contains a usual set of SOPERA TSPs as well as Apache !ActiveMQ and Apache !OpenDS. Here I'm not going to describe how to install it because once you had installed SOPERA Infrastructure (see MacQuckStart) you won't need DevBox
• SOPERA Service Studio - a set of Eclipse plugins (and a bit of plumbing around it) that implement editors for creating and editing SOPERA-specific artifacts such as SDX, SPDX and Policies. Here I'm also not going to describe how to install it because SOPERA-specific artifacts are in fact simple XML files, moreover most of them are deriviative from standard formats, e.g, SDX&SPDX == WSDL.
• SOPERA Administration - a set of Eclipse plugins that allow you to manage SOPERA Service Registry, Authentication and Authorization as well as Configuration of distributed participants.

Prerequisites

You are going to need the Eclipse Galileo JEE Package (was tested with Galileo SR2 JEE Package)

How to install tooling

It's pretty simple to do. You need to extract content of this package into your eclipse/dropins folder, so afterwards you would get something like this:

Then you start your eclipse and go to Preferences. There you select SOPERA - Service Backbone and specify the location of your ServiceBackbone as well as how to find the logging configuration as shown on the picture below:

That's it. Please note, with the package you are going to get a SOPERA Administration as well as SOPERA DevBox tooling (because inside you have a very useful Simple Consumer view), however no Service Studio.

How to test that tooling works

Switch to SOPERA Administration perspective and browse the Service Registry. Please note default username and password for sopera administration is SOPAdministrator and secret.