April, 4th 2008: The TUVALU team has led and submitted the "galaxy" ADT (i.e. Technological Development Action) proposal, together with other INRIA research teams such as Adam, Ecoo, Oasis, Obasco, Sardes, Aces (for the activity led by Ciaran Bryce) and Triskell. "galaxy" ADT aims at contributing to make INRIA a value-added player in the SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) arena, by designing and developing an Open Framework for Agile and Dynamic Software Architecture. For INRIA and research teams direct benefit, "galaxy" aims at pre-assembling INRIA technological bricks brought by the various teams, and preparing them to be transferred through the Open Source channel. Alain Boulze (TUVALU) leads the "galaxy" ADT proposal.
25-27 March 2008: The SOA4All European project, endorsed by NESSI has held its kick-off meeting in Madrid. SOA4All aims at enabling a world of billions of services that can be created, composed and used as easily as web pages today. TUVALU together with the Adam and OASIS teams, represent INRIA in SOA4All and are involved in infrastructure and tooling development. Adrian Mos from TUVALU is INRIA's delegate to the SOA4ALL General Assembly.
17-20 March 2008: The TUVALU team participated at Eclipse CON 2008 with two short-talks, entitled "Bridging SOA Editors in Eclipse STP with the Intermediate Model" and "Using Eclipse in a Concurrent Approach to SOA-BPM Development". Eclipse CON is the premier event of the Eclipse community bringing together researchers and practitioners alike. This year, the attendance reached more than 1400 people from all over the world. The TUVALU's presence at the conference reinforced our participation to the Eclipse STP project through the Intermediate Model component and contributed (together with other teams such as Lognet and Atlas) to INRIA's visibility in the software tooling community.
Jan 29-30, 2008: SemEUsE kickoff was held in Massy-Palaiseau. SemEUsE is an ANR project gathering academic (INRIA Arles, TUVALU, INSA, LIP6, INT) and industrials (France Télécom, Thales, EBM Websourcing) partners and which aims at developing a semantic ESB platform.
Jan 24-25, 2008: SCOrWare mid-project review was held in Paris. SCOrWare is an ANR project (TechLog 2006) and helps to design and develop an Open Source Service-Oriented and Component-Based Platform. This platform is SCA-compliant (Service Component Architecture standard as promoted first by the OSOA alliance, and now hosted by standardisation bodies such as OASIS and JCP). The SCOrWare consortium is composed by French partners, both academics and industries: Artenum, EBM Websourcing, Ediixio, GET/INT, INRIA (Adam, Sardes and TUVALU), IRIT, Obeo and Open Wide, and the results will strongly contribute to the OW2 PEtALS (JBI-based ESB, Enterprise Service Bus) and the Eclipse STP (SOA Tooling Platform) projects.