These guides help you to get setup in Tuscany, develop and run a simple application using comand line or Eclipse.

• Get Started with Tuscany using Command Line
  This is a quick getting started guide that shows you how to download the latest release, run the calculator sample and then how to use the calculator sample project as a basis for you own projects
• Get Started with Tuscany using Eclipse
  This is a quick getting started guide that go trough the steps of building the store scenario using the Tuscany SCA distribution manually installed into Eclipse
• Get Started with Tuscany using Tuscany Eclipse plugins
  This quick guide goes trough the steps of building the store scenario using Tuscany Eclipse plugins.
• Building your first web services using Tuscany
  This is a quick guide that go trough the steps of exposing your pojo component as web services.
• Importing existing Tuscany SCA projects into Eclipse
  This is a quick guide to show you how to import Tuscany samples and tests into the Eclipse environment.

provides a quick introduction to SCA and links to the SCA specifications
Introduction to SCA

These guides provide the following information:

• How to develop and run applications using Tuscany in a single node or multi node environment
  User Guide
• What are the available Tuscany extensions and how to use them? This includes bindings, impelementation types, interface types, policies, databindings.
  Extension Guide
• Available development and management tools for Tuscany
  SCA Java Tools Guides

Although Tuscany provides many extensions, you might be interested to add an extension that is not available today. This guide helps you understand how to develop extensions such
as new bindings, implementation types, interfaces, policies, etc.

You are welcome to contribute these new extensions to Tuscany and make them available to others in the community.

• Adding a new extension
• Adding a new data binding

These guides help you learn more about Tuscany architecture and how to get involved in the
development of Tuscnay. We look forward to your help.

• Development Guide
  If you would like to contribute to the project, this guide explains how to build Java SCA and how to contribute code back to the project.
• Architecture Guide
  This guide provides a high level view of SCA Java architecture.
• Security aware programming guide This guide shows the Tuscany developer how to write core and extension code that correctly employs the Java security features
  Also available in Video, use tuscany passcode
• Build Your Own Distribution
• JavaDocs API Documentation (Tuscany 1.4) See classes and methods you can use in your Tuscany applications.