The Eclipse Foundation’s Web Tools Platform (WTP) Project has added support for web services standards from the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) and Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) organization.
WTP features authoring tools for Web Services Description Language (WSDL), XML, and XML schema standards and wizards designed to simplify creation of web services.
Two more so-called milestone releases are planned by WTC team members before the project’s first scheduled release, version 1.0, expected in July. Details of WTC were announced at last week’s EclipseCon 2005 show in Burlingame, California.
Companies backing WTC include the ObjectWeb Consortium, who provided the Lomboz Eclipse plug-in for J2EEand web services development and IBM, who added the Rational Application Developer for Web Sphere Software product.
