WSMO Studio News

The new release contains major changes in the BPMO Modeller plug-in and a number of improvements of the ontology editing environment.

For details consult the changelog at http://www.wsmostudio.org/changes-report.html#0_7_3

this release includes a number of new features and bugfixes:

- improved Semantic Business Process editor with

* support for all BPMO 1.2 elements
* import/export in WSML
* EPC (EPML) import
* export of BPMO diagrams to images (PNG, JPG, BMP)
* improved UI (colours, layout, directed links, ...)

- migration to Eclipse 3.3

WSMO Studio, documentation and Flash demos are available for download at http://www.wsmostudio.org

this release includes many new features:

* Semantic Business Process modelling, based on the Business Process Modelling Ontology [1] (a Flash demo is also available at [2])

* integration with the IRIS WSML-Flight reasoner [3]

* integration with the WSMX service repository [4]

you may download the latest distributions, documentation (100+ pages) and demos at http://www.wsmostudio.org

[1] http://www.ip-super.org
[2] http://www.wsmostudio.org/demo/BPMO-editor.htm
[3] http://sourceforge.net/projects/iris-reasoner
[4] http://www.wsmx.org/

WSMO Studio and wsmo4j are among the reference implementations in the Implementation Report (http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/sawsdl/CR/Overview.html) of the W3C SAWSDL candidate recommendation (http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/sawsdl/)

WSMO Studio has been demonstrated during the "Next Generation Semantic Business Process Management" tutorial (http://project.iu.hio.no/aims-tutors/tutor.php?who=haller) of AIMS'2007 (http://www.aims2007.org/)

WSMO Studio was demonstrated during the at ESWC'2007 tutorial "Semantic BPM - The Integration of Business Process Management and Semantic Web Services" (http://eswc2007.org/tutorials.cfm#sbpm)

A position paper about the new Semantic Business Process editor in WSMO Studio has been accepted @ SBPM'2007 (http://sbpm2007.fzi.de/)

check out http://www.wsmostudio.org/doc/SBPM2007-DimitrovSimovSteinKonstantinov.pdf

This version offers a number improvements and new features:

* query interface for ontologies (WSML-DL and WSML-Flight queries)
* updated SAWSDL editor
* updated Users Guide
* fixed OS X distributions
* ability to search for ontology elements in the Navigator using regular expressions
* updated 3rd party libraries

check out http://www.wsmostudio.org for distributions and a Users Guide

We have fixed a problem with the OS X distribution that prevented the standalone version from initialising.

Check out http://www.wsmostudio.org for the updated OS X distribution

this release includes a number of improvements and bugfixes in the ontology editor

distributions & documentation are available at http://www.wsmostudio.org

changelog available at http://www.wsmostudio.org/changes-report.html#0_5_5

A paper about WSMO Studio has been accepted as a system description @ ESWC'2007 (http://www.eswc2007.org/)

check out http://www.wsmostudio.org/doc/WSMO-Studio-ESWC2007.pdf

This release includes minor bugfixes and UI enhancements in the Ontology editor and the SAWSDL edotr. The release is also updated with the latest wsmo4j, ORDI and Eclipse (3.2.1) versions

check out the list of changes at http://www.wsmostudio.org/changes-report.html#0_5_4

binary releases available at http://www.wsmostudio.org/download.html

A Flash demo of the SAWSDL editor is available at http://www.ontotext.com/wsmostudio/demo/sawsdl.htm. The demo uses the samples from the SAWSDL specification.

This release provides several minor bugfixes and UI enhancements

check out the list of changes at http://www.wsmostudio.org/changes-report.html#0_5_3

WSMO Studio 0.5.2 has just been released. Check out http://www.wsmostudio.org/ for the latest WSMO Studio distribution

this version includes:

- improved SAWSDL editor (support for fault elements)

- front-end for the EPFL QoS-based service discovery component (http://lsirpeople.epfl.ch/lhvu/download/qosdisc/)

this version includes several minor bugfixes and additions:

- printing support
- added OWL-DL export + bugfixes in the OWL-DL import
- integrated Pellet reasoner [1] via the WSML2Reasoner framework [2]

check out http://www.wsmostudio.org/ for the latest WSMO Studio distribution

[1] http://www.mindswap.org/2003/pellet/
[2] http://dev1.deri.at/wsml2reasoner/

The major changes since the previous release include:

* WSMO Studio migration to the new Eclipse 3.2 (plug-ins are OSGi compliant now)
* Improved SA-WSDL editor (with WSDL 1.1 support)
* Inclusion of a documentation plug-in giving access to the WSMO Studio Users Guide via Eclipse's help system
* Important bugfix related to appearance of empty dialogs in the GUI under Linux/gtk

The SA-WSDL editor provides functionality for mapping WSMO descriptions to WSDL descriptions according to the SA-WSDL recommendation (http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/sawsdl/spec/). The component is partly applicable for WSDL-S mappings (http://www.w3.org/Submission/WSDL-S/) but only to the extent to which the SA-WSDL and the WSDL-S standards overlap

This release contains several minor bugfixes and one new plug-in: a SA-WSDL editor (see Users Guide for details)

WSMO Studio GUI installer is now available for Windows, Linux and OS X (http://wsmostudio.org/doc/screenshots/installer.gif)

The user may choose which WSMO Studio components and 3rd party plug-ins will be installed.

we've just released a completely re-worked Users Guide that is based on the latest WSMO Studio release (0.4.1)

check out http://www.wsmostudio.org/doc/wsmo-studio-ug.pdf

this release just fixes the problem with the missing GEF libraries in the standalone distribution (the GEF libraries are required by the new Axiom Editor plug-in)

This release contains several minor bugfixes and two new 3rd party plug-ins:

* An IRS-III repository adapter from the KMi group at the Open University

* An Eclipse GEF based Axiom Editor plug-in, that replaces the default text based axiom editor. The plug-in was developed by the IIT group of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Additional information regarding the 3rd party plug-ins is available at http://www.wsmostudio.org/3rd-party.html... read more

An Eclipse GEF based plug-in, that replaces the default text based axiom editor, was developed by the IIT group of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

screenshot: http://www.wsmostudio.org/doc/screenshots/IWAE.jpg

more information: http://www.wsmostudio.org/3rd-party.html

The KMi group at the Open University has released an IRS-III (http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/irs/) repository adapter for WSMO Studio

more infromation: http://www.wsmostudio.org/3rd-party.html