IBM said it is contributing source editors for XSD schemas and WSDL, and a graphical editor for XSD schemas and WSDL from the Rational suite. The tools make it easier for developers to author and create XML-based web services.
The company is also expanding resources for Eclipse developers on its alphaWorks site, for emerging technologies, around modeling. A model transformation framework will be posted that provides bi-directional transformation between Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.0, increasingly used to model applications, and XSD schema. Transformation capabilities are required because, currently, different application modeling tools read either UML or XSD.
IBM is expected to announce the tools during the second annual EclipseCon show in Burlingame, California.
