Many articles have already been written about service-oriented architecture
(SOA) and Service Component Architecture (SCA), for example, see references
[1] and [2]. In this article we'll focus on a freely available, open source
implementation of the Service Component Architecture that provides a simple
way to implement SOA solutions. This SCA implementation is being developed in
the Apache Tuscany Incubator project. The project started in 2006 and is
being used by many who are looking for a simple SOA infrastructure. The
recent Tuscany SCA version 1.0, which was released in September 2007,
supports the Service Component Architecture specifications 1.0. In addition
to implementing the SCA specifications, Tuscany is also a nursery for new
ideas. Some of these ideas will f... (more)
Service Component Architecture (SCA) is a simple model for creating
service-oriented applications. This article highlights the benefits of SCA
and introduces SCA concepts by walking through an example. The example has
been developed using the Apache Tuscany open source project
(http://incubator.apache.org/tuscany/). All the sample code in this article
is licensed under the Apache License... (more)
A challenge facing many organizations is how to quickly and effectively react
to frequent changes in business requirements, whilst improving productivity
and reducing costs. To achieve this, you need a flexible infrastructure that
can meet the demands of a changing marketplace and seize emerging
opportunities. To address this challenge, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
promotes an arc... (more)
A challenge facing many organizations is how to quickly and effectively react
to frequent changes in business requirements, whilst improving productivity
and reducing costs. To achieve this, you need a flexible infrastructure that
can meet the demands of a changing marketplace and seize emerging
opportunities. To address this challenge, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
promotes an arc... (more)
Simon Laws is a member of the IBM Open Source SOA project team working with the open source Apache and PHP communities to build Java, C++, and PHP implementations of the Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Service Data Object (SDO) specifications. Prior to this role he was working in the distributed computing space building service-oriented solutions for customers with a particular interest in grid computing and virtualization.
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