About jETI

Users have always wished to combine functionalities of tools belonging to different application domains to solve complex problems a single tool would not be able to tackle. Programming integration and execution of new tools should become possible for non-specialists - also from far-away servers.

With jETI, the Electronic Tool Integration Platform, this vision comes true. Taking advantage of new technologies that internally base on Web Services and Java technology, jETI can

• considerably simplify the integration process, and at the same time
• flexibilize the distribution, version management, and use of integrated tools,
• broaden the scope of potential user profiles and roles by seamlessly integrating jETI's coordination and synthesis features with a standard Java development environment, and
• solve the scalability problem connected with tool maintenance and evolution.

The current version of jETI

• exploits Web Services technology to further simplify the remote tool integration and execution,
• supports cross platform execution of the coordination models based on the quasi standard set by Java, and it naturally
• flexibilizes the original coordination level by seamlessly integrating the Eclipse development framework.

This approach enables experts to develop complex tools in Java on the basis of a library of remotely accessible tool functionalities, as well as newcomers to use jETI's formal methods-based, graphical coordination environment to safely combine adequate tool functionalities into heterogeneous tools.

References

• FMICS interoperability platform: Coordination of services for the verification of Industrial Critical Systems.
• Bio-jETI: Coordination of services for bioinformatics processes.
• First platform for VSTTE: Coordination platform of services for software analysis and verification
• SWS Challenge: Automating Web Services Mediation Choreography and Discovery.